This blog updates the status of a selected range of environmental-related regulations following the European Parliamentary elections in June 2024. The non-exhaustive list of regulations ranges from nature restoration and anti-greenwashing requirements to waste, soil health, packaging and supply chain due diligence controls.

The global plastic industry’s long-standing narrative of recycling as the panacea for plastic pollution is debunked in this report by Planet Tracker, which sheds light on the deceptive practices employed by the plastic industry, urging stakeholders to re-evaluate their approach to plastic waste management. The industry’s use of resin identification codes (RIC), often mistaken for recycling symbols, has misled policymakers, regulators and consumers into believing in the circularity of plastic. Planet Tracker’s report reveals a stark reality: globally, 91% of plastic is not recycled.

The global plastic industry’s long-standing narrative of recycling as the panacea for plastic pollution has been debunked in a new report by Planet Tracker.

Robin Millington, CEO of Planet Tracker, talks to Jo Paisley, President of GAR’s Risk Institute about why businesses should be thinking about their dependencies and impacts on nature.

“Climate meets Nature” from UBS Asset Management and Planet Tracker provides a practical guide for industry practitioners on how best to integrate nature when looking at solutions for the global energy transition that is needed to meet global climate goals. The report focuses on three essential technologies in the energy transition: solar, wind and bioenergy.

Many CEOs have released climate change targets, some of which aim to be 1.5°C aligned by 2030 and/or net zero by 2050. More recently, nature transition plans are being developed with a goal of becoming nature positive. Investors and lenders need to understand how these pathways will be achieved and calculate the appropriate risks and opportunities against a fluid policy and regulatory backdrop.

Nature Action 100, the first global investor-led engagement initiative to address nature and biodiversity loss to mitigate financial risk and to protect the long-term economic interests of investors’ clients and beneficiaries, has convened 11 experts from leading organizations and universities to serve on its first Science Council.

Listen to Peter Elwin, Planet Tracker’s Director of Fixed Income and Head of Food & Land Use speaking on ‘Technology and Innovation for a Sustainable Future: How we can transform our food and agricultural sectors’ on 1st May at Innovation Zero 2024, the UK’s largest net-zero congress.

Unilever recently revised its ESG targets. Of its original 27 goals, at first glance it looks as though 10 were dropped. But closer scrutiny reveals some objectives are new and others have become divisional. In this paper, Planet Tracker explains why this is not a cause for despondency and demonstrates that if a corporate’s sustainability goals are adjusted, they should be scrutinised and judged on their own merits.

In late April 2024, Unilever (ULVR) adjusted its corporate sustainability goals. This change generated significant interest and commentary. The Planet Tracker dashboard analyses the changes announced by the management team in detail.