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The report evaluates a wide range of fashion brands on their viscose sourcing, focusing on whether they disclose their suppliers and adopt closed-loop manufacturing systems. While some brands like C&A, M&S, and H&M have signed the Changing Markets Roadmap and disclosed specific factory addresses, many others lack viscose-specific policies, fail to disclose fibre manufacturers, or focus solely on wood pulp sourcing rather than the chemical impacts of fibre manufacturing.

The Climate Policy Initiative calls on development banks and global financial actors to move beyond immediate COVID-19 relief and utilize recovery finance to address climate change and inequality. It advocates for linking loans to sustainable outcomes, funding energy efficiency and resilient infrastructure, and ending fossil fuel financing. To guide this transition, the organization has convened an Advisory Council to develop 'Principles for Financing the Sustainable Recovery' aligned with the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals.

ClientEarth identifies key legal and policy goals for 2017, including ending fossil fuel subsidies in the EU, implementing a new Clean Air Act in the UK, and pricing climate risk into financial markets.

The document outlines the technical requirements and operational steps for using a set of 16 'golden questions' and associated Excel calculators to segment audiences into seven specific value-based categories in Britain. It specifies that all 16 questions must be answered in a precise order to ensure accuracy and provides guidance on using both 'single response' and 'bulk' classification tools.

The briefing examines the environmental and social impacts of Mowi, the world's largest salmon producer and a key supplier to Sainsbury's. It highlights the unsustainable use of wild-caught fish in aquafeed, high fish mortality rates, frequent escapes, and the use of antibiotics and chemicals, arguing that these practices contradict Sainsbury's sustainability claims.

ClientEarth argues that EU competition policy must be reshaped to internalise environmental externalities and support the Green Deal. The organization calls for an end to state aid for fossil fuels, a more holistic 'consumer welfare' test in antitrust and merger assessments that includes future generations, and increased transparency in state aid decision-making. It specifically recommends prohibiting aid to forestry biomass and fossil-based hydrogen, while introducing a 'green bonus' to incentivize truly sustainable innovation.

The Marine Conservation Society, ClientEarth, and Oceana urge the UK Government to align 2021 catch limits with scientific advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) to end overfishing. The authors advocate for the use of Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY), the implementation of Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) for depleted stocks, and a more ambitious bycatch-only limit for seabass. They emphasize the need for a precautionary approach to deep-sea stocks and the transition of non-quota species to TAC and quota management to address biodiversity and climate emergencies.

ClientEarth argues that while the EUTR and FLEGT Regulation have improved transparency in timber supply chains, significant gaps in enforcement, funding, and scope persist. The organization highlights a critical lack of staff and financial resources in EU Member States, uneven implementation that disrupts the market, and a low volume of compliance checks relative to the number of operators. It recommends expanding the EUTR's product scope, introducing stricter responsibilities for traders, and harmonizing penalties to ensure they are 'effective, proportionate and dissuasive'. Regarding FLEGT, ClientEarth notes its success in driving systemic law reform and civil society participation in producer countries but warns that the EU's reduced market weight and the technical complexity of Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) may hinder progress. Finally, it calls for new mandatory due diligence legislation to address forest conversion driven by commodities like soy, cocoa, palm oil, and beef.

The report evaluates how 27 UK seafood retailers, suppliers, and producers adhere to the SSC's voluntary codes for responsible sourcing and environmental claims. It finds high overall alignment, with 96% of members having sourcing policies in line with the codes and 88% meeting risk assessment requirements. However, it identifies inconsistencies in public transparency, the application of 'sustainably sourced' claims, and the assessment of marine ingredients in aquaculture feed. The report recommends updating the SSC website, expanding the scope of the codes to include pet food and flavourings, and incorporating human rights and IUU fishing into risk assessments.

The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab) has supported 49 instruments that mobilized over USD 2.3 billion. This document identifies four critical success factors for scaling these innovations: establishing a track record, building economies of scale, assembling a robust team and governance structure, and securing strategic long-term partnerships. Through case studies of Climate Investor One, Energy Savings Insurance, and Long-Term Foreign Exchange Risk Management, the brief demonstrates how these factors enable instruments to move beyond initial implementation to broader geographic or sectoral replication.

The report by Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC) analyzes how transnational corporations (TNCs) exercise disproportionate economic and political power to exploit natural resources and labor in Latin America and the Caribbean. It details the 'architecture of impunity' created by trade agreements and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms, which allow TNCs to avoid accountability for human rights and environmental violations. The document categorizes impacts across extractivism, agribusiness, forestry, mining, energy, and services, highlighting the specific burdens on women and the criminalization of land defenders. It advocates for a legally binding UN treaty to regulate TNCs and a transition from a capitalist, extractivist model to one based on popular sovereignty and sustainability.

The 2020 assessment finds that supply chain efforts have failed to eliminate deforestation from agricultural commodities, with tree cover loss in 2018 remaining similar to levels before the New York Declaration on Forests. While palm oil and timber sectors show more advanced commitment and traceability tools, the beef and soy sectors in Latin America lag significantly. Most corporate commitments lack comprehensive scope, and full traceability to the point of production remains rare. The report highlights a gap in reporting, with many influential companies failing to disclose progress, and notes that financial institutions have largely failed to set clear policies to remove deforestation from their investments.

The report investigates how transitioning to a closed-loop economy affects employment, concluding that circular economy proxy measures are generally more labour-intensive than fossil-fuel-related jobs and can decouple economic activity from greenhouse gas emissions.

G20 governments provided an annual average of $584 billion in support for fossil fuels from 2017 to 2019, with oil and gas production receiving the largest share. While overall support dropped by 9% compared to 2014–2016, this decline was inconsistent across countries and partly driven by lower oil prices. The report finds that state-owned enterprise (SOE) investment is the only support mechanism that increased overall, and that COVID-19 recovery packages have introduced at least $170 billion in new commitments to fossil fuel-intensive sectors, threatening to undo previous progress.

The policy brief addresses the systemic corruption and lack of enforcement in South African public procurement, which accounted for 19.5% of GDP in 2017. It highlights the failure of existing oversight bodies, noting that corruption-related convictions of government officials declined to 183 in the 2020 financial year. To address this, the authors propose a 'qui tam' or encouraged whistleblowing system where private individuals are incentivized with a percentage of recovered damages to report fraudulent claims. This model, which recovered $44.7-billion for the US federal government since 1988, is suggested as a way to empower citizens and reduce the burden on under-resourced state prosecutors. The brief provides a specific legislative framework to be inserted into the Public Procurement Act, including provisions for double damages and tiered rewards for whistleblowers depending on whether the state adopts the legal action.

The document highlights a significant misalignment between government energy production plans and Paris Agreement goals, noting that governments planned to extract 60% more oil, 70% more gas, and 280% more coal by 2030 than is consistent with a 1.5°C pathway. It suggests that NDCs and LT-LEDS can be used to communicate pathways, targets, and policy measures to manage the transition away from fossil fuels while ensuring a just transition for affected workers and communities.

The paper evaluates the 2008–09 green stimulus, finding that while it supported GDP and job creation in economies like the US, China, South Korea, and the EU, it failed to create a long-term low-carbon trajectory due to a lack of structural reforms and the persistence of fossil fuel subsidies.

The document argues that while a 'grand theory' of migration does not exist, researchers can use 'theoretical triangulation' to formulate testable propositions. It presents ten such propositions covering the roles of pre-existing connections, social networks, involuntary immobility, resource constraints, environmental stress, violent conflict, economic development, development aid, and the effectiveness and unintended consequences of migration policies.

The Changing Markets Foundation warns that global plastic production is set to double by 2030 and could account for 15% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The organization argues that industry lobbying is undermining the EU's Single-Use Plastic Directive through attempts to exempt bio-based plastics, viscose, and cellophane, and by jeopardizing deposit return systems. The letter calls for legislative measures to end overpackaging, prevent greenwashing, and reject 'false solutions' like chemical recycling and incineration in favor of reuse and mechanical recycling.

The Changing Markets Foundation warns that global plastic production is set to double by 2030 and could account for 15% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The organization argues that industry lobbying is currently undermining the EU's Single-Use Plastic Directive through attempts to exempt bio-based plastics, viscose, and cellophane from the definition of single-use plastics. It further highlights efforts by brands and producer responsibility organisations to jeopardize deposit return systems (DRS), which the author claims are the only viable way to achieve 90%+ collection of beverage bottles. The letter calls for the EU to move beyond voluntary commitments and implement robust measures against overpackaging, greenwashing, and 'false solutions' like chemical recycling and incineration.