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Strong demand for green bonds: BNP Paribas Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
While returns on green bonds experienced volatility in 2022 in concert with the broader fixed income asset class, strengthening yields and unabated interest in bonds with verifiable green use of proceeds means strong demand, according to BNP Paribas ...

New net zero bondholder stewardship guidance: IIGCC

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... emissions, refinancing pipeline, and net zero alignment. The guidance calls for engagement across the capital markets ecosystem, since bondholders are unable to exercise voting rights in the way that an equity holder can. This includes with issuers ...

Climate change most pressing issue for APAC C-Suite: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... of the hard tech that are required to decarbonise. That means that 40% isn't available, but what's emerging is a rich ecosystem of start-ups and scale-ups, there's university research that's being commercialised that will provide new technologies and ...

ASIC chair calls out greenhushing as form of greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... generation. We need to be prepared for that change as it unfolds. "Why? Because Australia is part of a global financial ecosystem. As Australia's markets regulator, we recognise that, and we're engaging heavily at both the domestic and global ...

Robeco defines key business sustainability impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
Global fund manager Robeco has identified climate change, biodiversity, social rights and ESG data quality as material issues that pose both financial materiality and impact materiality in their operations. Robeco has released its sustainability report ...

CBA invests in native seed merchant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... climate commitments." CBA notes that native seed is a crucial input for large-scale land restoration projects, maintaining ecosystem function and diversity, providing habitat for native wildlife and boosting landscape resilience. Through native environmental ...

Greening Australia names new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... organisation's mission. Greening Australia has ambitious goals to 2030 as an official Actor in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and we can't do it alone." Greening Australia cited Campbell's "significant experience in strategic leadership ...

Labor's five step plan for biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... Economic Forum found that for the next decade, six out of the top ten risks are environmental - and biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse came in at number four. The ministers and Henry cited examples of ecosystem collapse and species decline in Australia ...

New nature-based team for AECOM ANZ

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... economic output - US$44 trillion of economic value generation - is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its ecosystem services. These include climate regulation, carbon storage, pollination, and water regulation. Therefore, nature-based solutions ...

Modern slavery on the rise 10 years after Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... market with investors and investee companies, the ability to dive deep into modern slavery as a small subset of the ecosystem of human rights impacts. "What we've done since then and what I would really like ASX companies to do across the market ...