Mondelēz, Nestlé, Others Make Cocoa Deforestation Commitment 12 of the biggest companies in the cocoa supply chain including Cargill, Olam, Ferrero, The Hershey Company, Mars, Mondelēz International and Nestlé made a public pledge to end deforestation and forest degradation in the cocoa sector by 2018. The cocoa commitment will link producer nations with buyer nations …
Two Rotten Meat and Deforestation Scandals JBS SA, the world’s biggest meatpacking company, halted beef production at all but three of its 36 plants in Brazil last week as federal police released results from their two-year investigation of pork, poultry and beef meatpackers. They found that health inspectors and politicians took bribes to allow domestic …
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) reported that United Cacao Ltd. Managing Director and former Chairman Dennis Melka resigned from his post on Thursday, January 5, 2017. He resigned after United Cacao’s directors “unanimously resolved” to seek his “immediate termination”. Also on January 5, 2017, Strand Hanson Limited resigned as nominated adviser to United Cacao and as …
Indonesia Strengthens Peatlands Moratorium This week, the Republic of Indonesia revised it peatland regulations targeting a permanent peatland moratorium. According to World Resources Institute, this revision to Government Regulation No. 71/2014, in effect, could equal an emissions reduction 5.5 to 7.8 gigatons carbon dioxide of Indonesia’s emissions by 2030. Contextually, 2015 U.S. emissions from the …
Download Report Here (PDF) Summary Deforestation risks material to financial institutions. Key economic sectors exposed to deforestation-related financial risks. Agriculture, mining, oil and gas, and infrastructure sectors impacted. The economic links between deforestation and climate change are increasingly recognized in, for example, the 2015 Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Paris Agreement and elsewhere. This recognition …
Impacts $60 billion in annual public procurement The Government of Norway last week announced a ban on public procurement of products, services and goods that directly cause tropical deforestation. The new policy impacts an estimated $60 billion in annual procurement by the nation’s central and sub-central governments. The Norwegian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Energy and …
Palm oil sector first in pilot project on Indonesian Sustainable Financing On November 23, 2015 eight Indonesian banks committed to implementing sustainable financing as part of their global environmental goals. This move follows the earlier launch of the Sustainable Financial Roadmap by the Financial Service Authority of Indonesia, locally known as OJK, on December 5, 2014.
Indonesian Government Growth Down, Corporates’ Earnings Uncertain Across Indonesia, an area half the size of Switzerland burned in less than four months this year, with investors’ capital going up in smoke. From July 1st to October 20th, 2015, 97,000 fires were detected in Indonesia, and over two million hectares of forest caught fire, one-third of …
Norges Bank divests from Daewoo International over palm oil deforestation Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway, announced this week its decision to divest funds from Daewoo International Corporation (047050:KS), Korea’s largest trading company, and its parent company POSCO (005490:KS), as well as Genting Berhad (GENT:MK) and IJM Corporation Berhad (IJM:MK) for the companies’ role in rainforest …
New York Declaration on Forests At Tuesday’s UN Climate Summit in New York City, world leaders from governments, businesses, and NGOs joined together to announce the first global timeline to slow and halt forest lost. The New York Declaration on Forests commits to cutting forest loss in half by 2020, and ending it by 2030. …
