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Carbon credit review falls short on CO2 capture and slavery

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... approach aims to ensure that the scheme adapts to new scientific evidence and policy developments. Competing with agriculture and nature-based approaches The review will discuss the importance of making conscious designs around land use, regenerating ...

Slow progress on human rights in business

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... empowerment across their supply chain. For the gender benchmark, WBA assessed 112 companies from the apparel and food and agriculture sectors, looking at the policies, processes and practices that move the needle on gender equality. Researchers also ...

Preparing for COP28: nature and climate integration

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Australian Government's National Landcare Program investing $1 billion over the next four years in sustainable agriculture, conservation, oceans research, and support for First Nations waterways. He urged government to further develop nature-positive ...

Warakirri launches Sustainability Broadacre Cropping Strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... cropping strategy for a select group of like-minded institutional investors," Adrian Goonan, investment director for agriculture at Warakirri told FS Sustainability. "We continue to see strong investor appetite for large scale agricultural investments ...

ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... lending from $1.3 billion in 2021 to $267 million in 2022. ANZ also reported a combined $52 billion exposure in 2022 to agriculture, forestry, fishing and mining sectors, which are generally highly dependent on biodiversity. "ANZ's peers are significantly ...

Treasury launches sustainable finance strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... sustainability. "We're pairing all this with six sector decarbonisation plans for our economy - in energy, industry, agriculture, transport, resources and the built environment - to map out an efficient and transformative path to net zero." Treasury ...

Morgan Stanley makes second climate private equity deal

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... to 2050. It invests in private companies across the transport, energy, circular economy, and sustainable food and agriculture themes. The food industry contributes more than a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions. MSIM's head of climate private equity ...

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Young Australia and the Australian Conservation Foundation released a report finding that banks that are invested in agriculture, property, resources, and energy, are most exposed to nature-related risk. Livestock agriculture, with $47 billion of outstanding ...

Farm to table reporting to increase ag investment certainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Australia's agricultural industry as attractive to investors. A growing population and our proximity to Asia makes agriculture an attractive investment in Australia. But more investment capital in the sector means tighter reporting requirements. The ...

Connecting capital to nature the next challenge: ASFI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... world impacts in protecting the natural world. The topic of how the finance sector and Australian industries like agriculture can work together to create positive real-world impacts by integrating natural capital calculations will be a key topic of discussion ...