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Cultivating Transparency: Analysing Sustainability Risk Disclosure in the Crop Protection and Fertiliser Sectors

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Fertiliser and crop protection companies are central to global food production. However, there is growing recognition that their businesses are exposed to a range of sustainability related risks. These range from water pollution and eutrophication to biodiversity impacts, greenhouse gas emissions and toxic impacts on human health. These risks are drawing increasing regulatory scrutiny, reputational risk and consumer pressure.

Cultivating Transparency – Disclosure Explorer

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Explore the disclosure evidence from 20 agricultural companies analyzed in Planet Tracker’s report on sustainability risk transparency. Navigate through the disclosures found by analyzing 7,000+ pages across 43 documents from the year 2024, compare company practices, and investigate the evidence behind our findings.

Global Methane Pledge unachievable without action from agri-food giants

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New research from Planet Tracker urges investors to address rising agri-food methane emissions, warning that the Global Methane Pledge is unachievable without a step change in action from the sector.

Methane Matters: Measuring the footprint of agriculture’s biggest emitters

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Methane has more than 80 times the warming effect of CO2 over a 20-year period and is responsible for 30% of global warming since the industrial revolution. This report calculates the methane footprint and analyses the targets and reduction plans of 52 of the world’s largest meat, dairy and rice companies.

Global Plastics Treaty Talks End Without an Agreement – and Investors Are Taking Note

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The fifth and supposedly final round of negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty (INC-5.2) has concluded; not with progress, but with paralysis. Despite tireless efforts from many countries and civil society representatives – and the presence of environment ministers expected to help broker compromises – delegates in Geneva failed to reach agreement on even the basic building blocks of a legally binding treaty.

Chemical Mismatch: Value Chain Under Strain

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Differing interests between oil and gas companies and chemical producers has created a structural tension in the petrochemical value chain, with energy suppliers seeking to sell more of their products to an industry that seeks to wean itself off them. This note draws on recent research from Carbon Tracker and Planet Tracker to highlight this structural tension and the associated risks for each of the two industries.

Health & Global Food Systems: An Investor’s Guide

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The intersection of food and health presents critical challenges for companies, investors, and policymakers alike. The food sector plays a decisive role in shaping public health outcomes, from addressing rising obesity rates and malnutrition to tackling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.

Unpacking the Plastic Value Chain: Litigation Risks and Legal Implications

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Companies across the plastic value chain face growing legal risks from pollution, toxic chemicals, greenwashing, and non-compliance with waste laws. Litigation costs could exceed USD 20 billion by 2030.

Brazil’s National Fertiliser Plan fails to tackle synthetic fertiliser overuse and its climate, nature and health impacts

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London, April 16, 2025 – New research from Planet Tracker, reveals that Brazil’s National Fertiliser Plan (PNF) focuses on reducing the country’s reliance on imported synthetic fertiliser by increasing domestic production, but lacks clear targets for curbing the overuse of synthetic fertiliser and the significant negative climate, nature and health impacts this causes.

Brazil’s Fertiliser Risks: Identifying innovation and investment opportunities

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Brazil’s 2022 National Fertiliser Plan lacks clear targets for reducing synthetic fertiliser use and fails to outline a transition to a sustainable, regenerative agribusiness sector. Brazil’s environmental wealth depends on its environmental health, which is threatened by the GHG emissions and pollution caused by the overuse of synthetic fertilisers.

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