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Growing scope for investing in natural capital: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... funds are the most mature portion of the market, but other strategies cover agriculture funds, diversified funds and 'Nature-based Solutions,' with the last group demonstrating heavy overlap with newer forestry/timberland offerings. bfinance ...

Global economists identify key risks for the decade ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... technology, and ultimately, state collapse. Climate breakdown and ecosystem collapse The report identifies climate and nature risk as a main driver of instability for the decade ahead. Global resource scarcity and supply chain collapse, driven by climate ...

Report reveals progress on green finance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... outsized focus on climate, and neglect broader impacts such as biodiversity loss and its effects on communities who rely on nature for their livelihoods. While progress has been made by central banks and financial supervisors to implement sustainable ...

Forestry fund raises $450m for natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... million tonnes of carbon abatement over the next decade by harnessing Australia's natural capital. New Forests, manager of nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies, completed the first close of the Australia New Zealand Landscapes and ...

Top 10 most-read articles of 2023

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... let's take a look back at the most popular articles of the year - in case you missed any. #1: ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure November: An ANZ shareholder took the bank to court over allegations it failed to manage the material risks ...

ESG in 2024: key trends and legislative changes for the year ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... like blockchain and AI will increasingly be deployed in managing supply chain due diligence - targeting modern slavery and nature destruction, as well as tackling Scope 3 and even Scope 4 in supply chains. All of this increasingly hinges on strong governance ...

Two Aussie states ramp up climate ambitions to attract investment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... commercial logging in its old growth and native forests from the beginning of next year and convert over 400,000 hectares to nature reserves, national parks, and conservation parks. Meanwhile, WA's new Sectoral Emissions Reduction Strategy (SERS) outlines ...

ACSI updates voting guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
Cyber security, worker safety and nature and biodivdersity expectations are on the list of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' (ACSI) Governance Guidelines. The guidelines are updated every two years and underpin ACSI's proxy voting ...

L'Oréal Groupe invests in First Nations-led biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Barrier Reef Foundation (GBRF) to fund the Reef Restoration and Adaption Program (RRAP) through the €50 million Fund for Nature Regeneration, planting 2 million heat-tolerant corals on the Great Barrier Reef by 2035.

Finance realignment urged as nature-positive trails 30:1

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
Global public and private funding directly damages nature reached US$7 trillion per year, while funding with a positive impact reached $200 billion last year - a 30-fold gap. New research from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) compared ...