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Asset managers and index providers urged to end ETF market's financing of deforestation

Cecilia Keating
Cecilia Keating
clock 18 December 2020 •
Asset managers and index providers urged to end ETF market's financing of deforestation

New report from Planet Tracker warns booming ETF market is supporting soybean companies driving mass deforestation in Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Investors engaged in the exchange traded funds (ETFs) market are indirectly and often unknowingly enabling the destruction of tropical forests, and as such the small clutch of companies that dominate the...

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