Day: 12 July 2025

Fashion waste from top UK brands found polluting endangered turtles’ habitat in Ghana

Stuart Mitchell

Clothes discarded by UK consumers and exported to Ghana have been found in a huge new dumpsite growing inside internationally protected wetlands, an Unearthed and Greenpeace Africa investigation reveals.  Unearthed reporters have found garments from UK high-street brands Next, George at Asda, and Marks & Spencer inside the protected nature site home to rare birds and three species of turtles. The clothes were located at or close to two open-air waste dumps that have recently appeared inside the wetlands. Clothing items from M&S, Zara, H&M, and Primark were also found at a…

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Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance calls for urgent action to tackle deforestation

Stuart Mitchell

As deforestation rises rapidly up the global agenda, the USD 9.5 trillion Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) releases Guidelines and Recommendations for Halting Deforestation. Highlighting the necessity for action and collaboration between investors, policymakers, companies, and data providers to tackle this issue effectively, the paper provides specific recommendations for each group. Investors are encouraged to evaluate their portfolio exposure to deforestation and linked human rights abuses, phase out deforestation and forest conversion risks by 2030, actively engage with companies, asset managers, and policymakers, and disclose their actions, risks, and progress…

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Only four of the largest 30 tuna fishing companies disclose catch data, exposing investors to supply chain risk

Stuart Mitchell

As the UN World Ocean Conference concluded last month, new research from Planet Tracker reveals for the first time the actual catch of the world’s 30 largest tuna harvesters despite their highly opaque disclosures. The study, Tuna Turner: Investors Must Turn Up Transparency in the Tuna Industry, trawls Global Fishing Watch data to reconstruct catch volumes by species and region for all 2,153 industrial vessels fishing tuna globally. The research attributes these details for the first time to companies and the countries they are headquartered, aiming to fill in the…

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Boost for UK offshore wind supply chain with £400m investment from The Crown Estate

Stuart Mitchell

In a boost for the UK’s offshore wind sector, The Crown Estate has outlined its proposal to invest up to £400m of capital in the supply chain. Launched in time for the first day of the Global Offshore Wind conference in London, The Crown Estate’s new Powering Offshore Wind publication details its proposal to focus on supportive investments into new onshore enabling infrastructure over the medium term. These investments are intended to support the construction of new infrastructure, including ports, supply chain manufacturing, and research and testing facilities, to enable…

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Banks fossil fuel finance totals $869 billion in 2024, a dramatic increase in financing

Stuart Mitchell

The 16th annual Banking on Climate Chaos (BOCC) covers the world’s top 65 banks’ lending and underwriting to over 2,700 fossil fuel companies. Backgrounder of the report’s key findings can be found here. While the world’s top scientists from the International Energy Agency (IEA) repeatedly state that there is no need for a single new oil field, tanker, pipeline, or any fossil fuel expansion whatsoever, banks ignore climate risk and increase finance for dirty energy companies expanding their sector. This is amidst a rapid retreat from climate commitments many of…

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