Planet Tracker - Transforming the Global Food System - Peter Elwin - ASWQ V3I2 - March 2025

Planet Tracker focuses on transforming global economic systems through sustainable finance, especially within the food system. As part of the Tracker Group (alongside Carbon Tracker), it provides free research on nature-related risks for finance professionals and others. The current food system is environmentally destructive, driving deforestation, overfishing, and biodiversity loss, while also contributing about one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and failing to provide nutritious food‚ yearly 20% of global deaths are linked to diet. Planet Tracker proposes a roadmap for financial institutions to foster change through responsible supply chains, reducing emissions (particularly methane), halving food waste, and stopping deforestation. Private finance, which contributes $8.6 trillion to the food system, must redirect funding to producers to enable sustainable practices. If managed correctly, the food system could regenerate natural capital rather than deplete it. Transforming it is essential to addressing both climate and nature crises, with vast economic and ecological benefits.