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.

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’

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.

The green and blue economies should have a seat at the table at the G20 meetings alongside the other largest global economies?

In revising its Fisheries Act in 2018 for the first time since 1949, the Government of Japan introduced scientific baselines for most commercial fishing species while opening doors for private sector investment enabled by a $2 billion increase in public spending to support this transition towards scientific management of domestic fisheries.