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Growing scope for investing in natural capital: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... recurring yields, with 16% of funds' returns almost entirely driven by carbon credit production and the rest seeing commercial returns supplemented with carbon credit revenue." In timberland, fund offerings range from value-added strategies feature ...

Global economists identify key risks for the decade ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... cyber security - as well as significant geopolitical conflict and threats to social cohesion." Carolina Klint, chief commercial officer, Europe, Marsh McLennan, said that AI will "radically disrupt the risk outlook" as organisations struggle to react ...

Two Aussie states ramp up climate ambitions to attract investment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... interests first and promptly commit to a bipartisan position on these targets." Meanwhile Western Australia will end commercial logging in its old growth and native forests from the beginning of next year and convert over 400,000 hectares to nature reserves ...

New advisory body for nature investment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
Canberra has established a new advisory body to align private finance and investment with nature positive outcomes. The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water this week announced the establishment of the Nature Finance Council ...

RIAA creates co-CEO model to replace outgoing O'Connor

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... that combined in a co-CEO model will benefit RIAA moving forward." Hegarty, who previously worked as general manager, commercial member series and marketing at the Australian HR Institute among other roles, brings more than a decade of experience leading ...

BlackRock's Evergreen Infrastructure fund scores US$1bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... strategy will invest in energy transition and security, as the open-ended fund makes its first investment to acquire a US commercial and industrial solar and battery platform. With nearly US$1 billion in commitments from European founding partners, Italy's ...

Macquarie opens clean energy arm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... portfolio at an important time for renewable energy markets in the region, in the context of increasing demand from commercial and industrial off-takers. "The energy transition in Australia requires an acceleration in the deployment of new renewable ...

Finance eyes $500b green buildings opportunity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... accelerating in the construction and retrofitting of efficient, low-carbon, resilient and comfortable buildings. With the commercial real estate sector expected to double its existing 859 million square metres of floor space by 2050 and the residential ...

Clean tech bags big bucks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... funding from Woodside, taking total funding from Woodside to $2.75 million. The new funding will go towards its ongoing commercial development SiBox, a heat storage battery that uses silicon bricks. The unit harnesses silicon's extremely high latent ...

BlackRock backs world's largest direct air capture plant

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
The world's largest asset manager will invest $550 million to build a direct air capture (DAC) facility in Texas which the energy company developer says will be the world's largest. New York Stock Exchange-listed Occidental Petroleum Corporation says ...