Jamie Hicks
Puts forward six key enablers which could be advanced by all systemic shapers to accelerate the sustainable development of the seafood industry - from unlocking sustainable finance and ratifying international conventions, to moving beyond data disclosure, rewarding progress, and incorporating wider food system dimensions into both policy and sustainability-related services.
The case for UK legislation on human rights and environmental due diligenceBusiness is a central part of our society and vital to the lives of children. UK businesses and supply chains operate around the globe. They connect us to children labouring to produce cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire, to children of factory workers in Bangladesh producing our clothes as well as to children around the world using apps and products developed by British Tech companies.Our new report, Preventing corporate abuse and realising child rights highlights how businesses can have wide-ranging negative impacts on children and how these can be prevented or mitigated. All these impacts can have serious, long-lasting, often irreversible, consequences on the lives of children.
In the just-released publication ‘Fashioning justice’ Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) shows that non-enforceable initiatives and voluntary commitments by garment brands have failed to protect workers’ human rights and deliver justice. CCC therefore puts forward concrete proposals for binding rules aimed at ensuring responsible business conduct. The recommendations are supported with an overview of the policy context and of the current realities in the garment industry.
Making corporate governance fit for a purpose-driven investment systemAt a time when there are many urgent new questions for corporate boards to answer, four out of five FTSE 350 companies opted to hold their 2020 AGMs ‘behind closed doors’, with no external participants allowed to attend and ask questions to the board, other than by email.
There is no solution to the growing climate and nature crisis the world faces without a solution to deforestation. Currently, two thirds of tropical deforestation is driven by agricultural expansion to produce commodities such as soy, palm oil, timber, and beef.
An irresponsible bandwagon or a paradigm shift? ESG investing has certainly been a polarising topic. Typically, opinions fall into one of two categories, you either love it or you hate it. Unless of course you are one of the many apprehensive and curious investors who is yet to make up their mind and form a strategy.
As the impacts of human activity on the natural world have become increasingly clear in recent years, alongside human dependences on a healthy environment, the conversation has shifted from “Should we save nature?” to “How do we pay for it?”. Few in government or business today doubt the inherent value of nature or the importance of managing it sustainably. The interest in halting the loss of biodiversity is enormous and is coming from unexpected quarters. Meeting after international meeting closes with strongly worded calls to protect nature, and the dialogue among the public sector, business, and civil society has never been more active. But once economics rears its head, then the dialogue becomes muffled, and participants start shuffling papers and shifting their eyes nervously.
Our new report provides investment decision-makers with a business case to invest in mangrove restoration, which done at scale could return $11.8 billion by 2040. We propose the creation of a global safety net of 40 strategically-located cities to help protect this remarkable planetary ecosystem.At the same time, the creation of a Municipal Mangrove Bond Fund provides a new mechanism for cities to access adaptation finance, with a fixed-income product that is familiar to investors. The report finds that the price of carbon must at least double in order for voluntary carbon markets to finance regeneration globally.
New roadmap discusses lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic and outlines the way forward for policymakers, regulators, and investors
The report provides practical and impactful recommendations on the role that financial centers can play to support the economic recovery through the sustainability agenda.