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It is being launched by the team that set up Carbon Tracker and Planet Tracker, alongside Carole Ferguson, who has been leading the investor research team at CDP, the non-profit which runs the world's environmental disclosure system. Ferguson said: "Despite the massive growth of the sustainable finance industry and more and more countries committing to ambitious net zero targets, capital is not currently being directed to the type of real-economy transformation that is required. "That is where Industry Tracker comes in - to provide investors with detailed bottom-up research that links finan...

Japanese seafood firms have been urged to employ strategies where sustainability and financial profitability are linked in order to counteract downward industry trends and avoid both environmental and financial failure.

Despite growing profits and rising share prices, Japanese seafood companies are less financially healthy than they seem. To avoid suffering the impact of overfishing and maintain growth, they must switch to sustainable strategies, writes François Mosnier, Financial Research Analyst at Planet Tracker. Is the apparent financial health of Japanese seafood companies masking deep-seated concerns regarding overfishing? Planet Tracker has examined the financials of the world’s largest seafood companies and concluded that some are maintaining profits and inflating their share price through managem...

Yellowfin tuna ‘heading for collapse’ by 2026: A 20% reduction in catch would turn the tide Yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean is overfished and ‘heading for collapse’ by 2026, according to non-profit thinktank Planet Tracker. The only way to avert this situation is a significant reduction in catch. Stocks of yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean are on a knife-edge. Forecasts from Planet Tracker predict that, if things carry on as they are, ‘collapse’ – defined as a 70% reduction in biomass over a decade – will take place by 2026. Found in the subtro...

Report: 6 in 10 plastic packaging companies have no environmental policies An analysis of 83 of the world's biggest publicly traded plastic packaging firms has found that almost two-thirds report no policies on sustainability-related topics like waste or carbon. Many PC&P formats are hard-to-recycle, including black plastics and flexible films (pictured) Produced by non-profit think-tank Planet Tracker, the 'unwrapping investor risk' report concludes that the global plastic containers and packaging (PC&P) sector is “at an inflexion point”, whereby it will only continue to be financially ...