At the end of last week, EU legislators reached an agreement on the expenditure of EUR 6.1 billion (USD 7.4 billion) which is to be allocated to fisheries and aquaculture for 2021 to 2027.

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are booming, synthetic ETFs are re-surfacing and semi-transparent ETFs have recently emerged – but their structures hide entrenched deforestation risk from investors. Planet Tracker identifies the key decision makers for each instrument in the growing ETF universe and calls for specific actions from index providers, ETF sponsors and investors to eliminate hidden deforestation risk in their holdings or indices.

Despite the market’s rising share and significance, ETF sponsors to date have not acted on sustainability statements by structuring instruments to explicitly exclude deforestation-linked equities.

Will Fashion Dye Another Day?

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A focus on the financial risks arising from the extensive use and misuse of water in the wet processing stage of clothing production.

With 67% of individual investors and families “extremely highly” or “highly” exposed, is the fashion industry truly pricing in water risk?

Financial think tank reveals 89% of the country’s plastics production is increasingly threatened by storms, sea-level rise and storm surges.

Overcapacity and climate risk are increasing stranded asset risk in the U.S. Plastics Production Corridor.

Bonds for Ponds presents a case for financing an industry transition, using green bonds to scale innovative feeds.

By providing the capital needed to accelerate novel feed ingredients at scale, green bond issuances could reduce high dependency on unsustainable soy- and fish-based feed.

Formosa Petrochemical Corp’s USD 10 billion single-use plastics Sunshine Project facility in Louisiana had its licence suspended by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on 4 November 2020. Now, major construction has stopped.