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Property fund inks multi-billion dollar sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... environmental KPIs, the loans will be linked to achievements in emissions reduction, renewable energy usage, water conservation and reuse, waste reduction and other resource efficiency, while social will be tied to diversity and inclusion and community ...

Investors back climate bill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
A range of investors have backed independent MP Zali Steggall draft climate change law in testimony to a parliamentary inquiry. A broad swathe of businesses, conservationist, scientist, health professionals and investors have broadly backed the proposed ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... to $100 billion over the next five years, and invest in clean energy, housing, health and wellbeing, education and conservation, among other themes. As demonstrated in the RIAA study, impact investing has been concentrated in fixed income and real assets ...

Australia on global list for deforestation hotspots: WWF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Australia alongside the most infamous places in the world for forest destruction," said Martin Taylor, WWF-Australia conservation scientist. "Despite Queensland restoring some restrictions in 2018, eastern Australia remains a deforestation front. That ...

GreenCollar secures funding for Queensland carbon farming projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... to our model." GreenCollar outlined the five projects that they will pursue as a result of LRF funding: Beef and Conservation for the Future (Monto QLD) 50,000 total carbon credits (ACCUs) estimated to be generated over 10 years 1544ha of native vegetation ...

HSBC, Pollination Group to launch natural capital asset manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... countries as an example of past work. The Forest Bond was developed with FC developed the Forests Bond with BHP and Conservation International. Pollination worked with BHP and Conservation International as part of the process. The first fund, which aims ...

Australian impact investing market nearly triples in past two years: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... to $100 billion over the next five years, and invest in clean energy, housing, health and wellbeing, education and conservation, among other themes. "As evidence mounts that companies with better records on social issues, environmental sustainability ...

AMP Capital launches 2030 ESG strategy for real estate business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... work towards for 2030 include: - to be zero net carbon for scope one and two emissions - to create a biodiversity conservation reserve that is equivalent in area to its entire managed real estate portfolio - more than four million square metres. - to ...

New Forests joins World Business Council on Sustainable Development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... and forests in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United States for sustainable timber production and conservation. New Forests will benefit from the initiatives that WCBSD is undertaking with regards to natural capital, and will share their ...

Bank Australia issues $125 million sustainability bond linked to SDGs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... specialist disability accommodation and mortgages for energy efficient homes with an added environmental offset from a conservation reserve that the bank acquired 10 years ago, Dawson said. The conservation reserve generates offset credits that are applied ...