Pressure keeps building on increasingly anxious world leaders to ratchet up efforts to fight climate change. There’s more of it coming this week in one of the highest-profile forums of all — the United Nations.

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The Taskforce for Scaling the Voluntary Carbon Market (TSVCM) was established to create the conditions for the Voluntary Carbon Market to grow rapidly and so massively expand the flow of private finance to emissions reduction activities around the world and accelerate the transition to a Net Zero Economy. This is essential if we are to avoid the most dangerous potential climate change impacts and protect natural environments and the Taskforce is to be commended for the progress it has made to date.

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Chain Reaction Research held a webinar with Youki Mikami of Abovo to discuss how Japan’s deforestation links to the palm oil and timber leakage markets.

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Analysis of 25 States Finds Ripe Green Investment Opportunities Through 2025 Thanks to Non-Federal Actors Strong Green Economy Efforts (more…)

Britain, Norway and the United States said Thursday they would join forces with some of the world’s biggest companies in an effort to rally more than $1 billion for countries that can show they are lowering emissions by protecting tropical forests.
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World leaders looking for ways to slow climate change are zeroing in on a key element to actually help make that happen: the private sector and the vast amount of money it can invest to transform the global economy. (more…)

On April 15th, the Zoological Society of London SPOTT (ZSL SPOTT), Chain Reaction Research (CRR), and Orbitas hosted a webinar to discuss the fundamentals of how financiers should analyze a broad range of risks amongst palm oil companies in Indonesia as well as the whole supply chain to inform their ESG investment and lending strategies.
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Washington D.C. Bunge’s potential Cerrado deforestation is 12% greater than its next four competitors deforestation combined, 2025 zero-deforestation goal at risk. (more…)

A bipartisan coalition of seven former cabinet secretaries and chief climate change negotiators moved to push President Biden forward
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Chain Reaction Research (CRR) held a webinar with special guest Shin Young Chung from Advocates for Public Interest Law South Korea on Jan. 21st, 2021 to discuss the ties between South Korea and the unsustainable palm market through production, consumption, and finance.

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Chain Reaction Research (CRR) hosted a webinar on Jan. 14th to discuss their report analyzing the financial risks Brazil’s three largest meatpackers face from deforestation. (more…)

Climate Advisers and Third Way co-hosted a webinar on climate policies that can aid in America’s economic recovery from Covid-19 on December 10th. (more…)

Orbitas will host a high-level event on policy, risk, and finance related to tropical agricultural commodities and how these markets will be affected by climate transitions. (more…)

Chain Reaction Research (CRR) hosted a webinar on Nov. 19th to discuss Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Companies’ deforestation goals and the reputation risk they face from not meeting them. (more…)

Chain Reaction Research (CRR) hosted a webinar on Oct. 29th with Mighty Earth and Envol Vert to examine the legal and financial risks Casino Group faces from ties to illegal deforestation.
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Washington, D.C. Beef tied to illegal Brazilian deforestation and traced to Casino Group stores may violate French law and may create over USD 2.5 billion in financing risks. (more…)

Chain Reaction Research (CRR) hosted a webinar on Oct. 2nd to explore the ties between Chinese markets and Brazilian deforestation.
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Chain Reaction Research hosted a webinar on Sept. 11th to review two new reports on the state of the Brazilian cattle industry and how factors like deforestation and COVID-19 create business risks. (more…)

Washington, D.C. JBS’ supply chain may be linked to 1.7 million hectares (ha) of deforestation across six Brazilian states creating significant financial risks.

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Palm oil crushers and refiners sit within a bottleneck of the palm oil industry. Because of this, they serve as key actors in establishing and enforcing sustainability commitments.

Joined by ZSL’s (Zoological Society of London) SPOTT initiative and BMO Global Asset Management, Chain Reaction Research discusses new insights on this sector’s sustainability commitments and connection to leakage markets.

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Washington, D.C.  A new report from Chain Reaction Research (CRR) has tracked palm fruit from plantations, actively involved in deforestation, to a mill supplying palm products to companies like Unilever, Danone, and others. (more…)

Washington, D.C. The former mayors of Salt Lake City and Charlotte are championing a new policy initiative to put state and city governments in a position to lead our economic and health recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

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Washington, D.C. To date, the international fight against climate change has largely overlooked the ocean-climate relationship. Yet the ocean and climate are inextricably linked. The ocean plays a central role regulating the climate, including by absorbing heat and carbon dioxide. This imposes a heavy cost through effects such as deoxygenation and acidification, which are decimating ocean ecosystems and damaging the communities that rely on them. At the same time, the ocean is a source of measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

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Washington, D.C. Companies in the palm oil supply chain that have committed to sustainable production have experienced stronger equity returns versus its industry counterparts, according to a new report from Climate Advisers, a consultancy specializing in climate and financial risk in the land sector.

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Katowice, Poland. On December 12th, The Polish presidency of the 24th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) will announce The Ministerial Katowice Declaration on Forests for the Climate.

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