Introducing IUCN Green List bonds, whereby increased funding for protected areas is supplied by investors in the bond and tied to increased conservation efficiency (namely when a protected area joins the IUCN Green List). This eliminates the risk of ‘paper parks’, de-risks public funding, and aligns investors returns with conservation efficiency.

This report calls out the ‘Deforestation Dozen’: 12 soy traders that control 89% of soy exports from the Paraguayan and Argentinian Gran Chaco, who are failing to prevent soy-driven deforestation in the region. The current level of deforestation is creating significant risk for these traders and other companies in the supply chain due to the associated CO2 emissions.

Supporters of deep-sea mining promise to provide the materials needed for a decarbonised future by extracting key metals from the seabed. However, the environmental effects of deep-sea mining have shown catastrophic and irreversible implications for biodiversity.

As brands continue to increase their focus on sustainability, should volume growth still be used by investors in the textile sector as a valuation driver?

A new Planet Tracker report examines the limited role of stock exchanges in protecting investors from publicly listed companies involved in illegal fishing practices and offers an alternative way for investors to assess their exposure to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

Planet Tracker has therefore created an interactive IUU Detection Toolkit which helps investors compute an IUU fishing risk score for any listed fishing company.

A new Planet Tracker report examines the limited role of stock exchanges in protecting investors from publicly listed companies involved in illegal fishing practices and offers an alternative way for investors to assess their exposure to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

Last week, Blackrock wrote a letter to CEOs of the companies Blackrock invests in and another to the company’s clients. Both these letters discuss in detail the various approaches that Blackrock intends to take to climate risk, sustainable reporting and a variety of other related issues. But the number of times deforestation gets a mention in either letter? Zero. This omission is surprising. Deforestation is a crucial factor in climate change. It accounts for nearly 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions — more than the world’s entire transport sector.