In their infinite wisdom, because water mysteriously arrives each day in plastic bottles from supermarkets, the Republican administration last week stripped protections for streams, wetlands and groundwater in the U.S. which had formed the basis of the Clean Water Act signed into a law by another Republican administration in 1972.

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, ended last week and the verdict is in – Everything is ESG – as the theme for this year’s annual meeting was ‘Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World’

Australia’s fires remind us that fires, driven by extreme weather and climate change, not only burn the planet but also injure the economy.

At the Food and Agriculture Organization’s annual Investment Days in December 2019, Planet Tracker, called on the global capital market to join Planet Tracker’s New Year’s Resolutions and make the decade of the 2020s about mitigating emissions associated with food and agriculture.

Mangrove deforestation threat to farmed Shrimp Investments.

Critical briefing paper highlights the investment risk from poorly disclosed ecosystem threats within the US$45 billion global farmed shrimp industry.

The annual get-together for policy makers, civil society and businesses to announce systems to mitigate the current climate crisis ended at the Madrid COP25 with no self-congratulatory proclamation.

The SEC has proposed to increase the minimum investment threshold investors must achieve before they can engage companies they own and ask how their corporate strategies address business risks related to environmental change.