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New Forests invests in Thai peat forest

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... GHG emissions from peat oxidation," New Forests said. "Fires can also contribute to transboundary haze that reduces air quality in local communities and urban areas such as Bangkok. New Forests has established a local entity, Restore Nature (Thailand) ...

China stock exchange rings in Year of the Dragon with ESG mandate

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... companies' sustainable development, guiding listed companies to practice the concept of sustainability, and promoting the high-quality development of listed companies," BSE said in a background statement to the guidelines. Guidelines on sustainability ...

UniSuper makes property allocation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... forecast end value of more than $1 billion," UniSuper said. "This super prime parcel of industrial land further improves the quality of our diversified unlisted property portfolio and adds to our exposure to the logistics and warehousing sector following ...

Australia climbs quickly on climate policy development

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... of the Australian economy and achieving a sustainable transition to net zero. "It is important the regime supports high quality, useful and comparable disclosures, and critical to achieving this is a proportionate and appropriate approach to liability." ...

Accountant ethics board drafts new sustainability benchmarks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... public and institutional trust in publicly communicated sustainability information, mitigate greenwashing and improve quality. The benchmarks will be used globally by national accreditation bodies when accrediting and authorising assessment bodies to ...

Forestry fund falls short of target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... to New Forests, Asian wood products are seeing the fastest growing demand. "Investment is required not only in a high quality and sustainable plantation sector but also in productive landscapes that are integrated with positive climate, biodiversity ...

Australian Ethical grants $500k to climate solutions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... unearth and fund high impact charities driving solutions addressing climate change, and we're really excited by the quality of this years' recipients," Australian Ethical chief customer officer Maria Loyez commented. "Of course ethical investing ...

VC initiative to catalyse AgTech for climate solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... things will be around how do increase the water holding capacity of soil, how do we look at algorithms that give us high quality predictive models around microclimate and whether farm by farm, rather than weather on a 500km basis, going all the way through ...

Treasury publishes climate disclosure legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Australian Institute of Company Directors managing director and CEO Mark Rigotti said investors are "searching for higher quality and more fulsome climate disclosures and directors fundamentally agree. "To achieve this, the liability settings must be ...

Paris overshoot: are investors prepared?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... methodology to climate scenario analyses, because each scenario comes with its own different set of assumptions. Investors need quality, sector-specific information to fully understand the implications of climate change on various asset classes, which ...