Month: July 2025

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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Suntory Announces “Suntory Green Hydrogen Vision”

Stuart Mitchell

Suntory Holdings announced the “Suntory Green Hydrogen*1 Vision,” Suntory Group’s mid- to long-term plan for utilizing hydrogen. The announcement precedes the launch of the “Yamanashi Model Power-to-Gas (P2G) System,” scheduled to begin operating in 2025. Since Japan formulated the Basic Hydrogen Strategy in 2017, positioning hydrogen as a key energy source for achieving a decarbonized society, the establishment of hydrogen supply networks has been actively promoted through public-private partnerships in the country. Suntory Group — in collaboration with Yamanashi Prefecture and nine companies engaged in technological development*2 — is constructing…

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Canon, Coral Spawning Lab, and Nature Seychelles Team Up to Regenerate Coral Reefs

Stuart Mitchell

Canon EMEA is partnering with Nature Seychelles, a leading non-profit organisation in the Western Indian Ocean, and the Coral Spawning Lab (CSL), to lead a first-of-its-kind project designed to safeguard the Seychelles’ vital marine ecosystems. The project aims to restore and protect coral reefs against climate change by embracing a new method of coral regeneration in the region.             Canon will provide investment to Nature Seychelles for the construction and operation of a coral breeding facility as well as Canon imaging equipment to enhance observation…

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