FARMS welcomes animal welfare progress by Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered is a crucial bank as much of its financing is in Asia with its rapidly growing industrial livestock sector. FARMS...
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PROGRESS & updates
Humane Society International launches "The business case for preimplantation group housing systems"
Financial institutions are incorporating animal welfare into their policies, practices and procedures. They recognize the risk and return...
OECD includes animal welfare in its Guidelines for MNEs
The OECD includes animal welfare in its updated Guidelines for MNEs
WWF and Finance Earth Launch Blue Finance Innovation for Fisheries Improvement
Directly from the press release: Global financing model aims to catalyze more than $100 million in fisheries improvement by 2030 Today,...
When the Drugs Don’t Work: Antibiotic Resistance as a Global Development Problem
Report focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals related to poverty, economic growth, inequality, health, food production and the...
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review
An independent global review of the economics of biodiversity led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, has highlighted the impact of an...
WWF report warns of dangers of unsustainable food production
A World Wildlife Fund report, Bringing It Down To Earth: Nature Risk & Agriculture, has highlighted how unsustainable food production...
UNEP’s Principles for Responsible Banking reference FARMS RMS
The UN has established its Principles for Responsible Banking to ensure that the strategies and practices of signatory banks align with...
UNEP’s ESG guidance for insurers references FARMS RMS
In 2020 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published guidance called Managing environmental, social and governance risks in...
California ban on cages for chickens, pigs and calves
Photo by Matthew Prescott
Successful "End the Cage Age" campaign in the EU
The European Commission has committed to introducing legislation that phases out and then bans the use of cages for farmed animals such...
Online database to help improve animal welfare laws
Animal welfare, the overuse of antibiotics, and environmental protection are among topics covered by a free, global database that...
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