Reported Scope 3 emissions by 12 publicly listed European food retailers account for 44% of total emissions in the European food retail sector in 2018.

The impact of COVID-19 on the global economy is just beginning to become clear.

Selling by foreign portfolio investors decreased India’s foreign exchange reserves by $12 billion in March 2020.

The agribusiness sector, with over 5,600 different traded commodities[i] valued at more than $5 trillion annually, contributes 37 percent to global Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions. According to the OECD, 61 countries – including all EU and OECD countries and ten key emerging economies – disbursed $620 billion between 2015 and 2017 as agriculture subsidies, with 80 percent of this funding going to agriculture producers.

As of Thursday 26 March, and before the $2 trillion U.S. stimulus package and U.S. Fed moves come into force, the last time the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average showed similar volatility – chaotic up and down movements – as it has over the past month was in September 1929, when markets collapsed at the start of the Great Depression.

New South Wales Faces Long-Term Credit Risks as Natural Infrastructure is Threatened.

Despite accounting for less than 9% of global agriculture’s market value in 2016 – compared to 22% for the meat industry, dairy is an important sector in both developed and emerging markets’ economies.

Supporting the European Green Deal[i] in aide of carbon neutrality and as part of the European Commission’s Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth,[ii] the Study on Due Diligence Requirements Through the Supply Chain,[iii] published 24 February, calls on regulatory reform to standardize approaches to risk management that measure, monitor and manage supply chain impacts.

The EU is committed to meeting the targets of the Paris Agreement and policymakers are working to make the EU the first climate-neutral continent. Sounds grand, yet to achieve this goal requires a lot of financial fine print so that money goes in the right direction and unintentional perverse incentives are minimized or avoided.

Plastics in of themselves are not bad – plastics in many cases improve life quality. Yet it is clear that how we are managing the production, use and waste processes for plastics is a serious issue.