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Carbon trading roundup: Verra, REDD+, BetaCarbon

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... Rights Watch alleges that the REDD+ project violated the free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) rights of Indigenous people, conducting activities for 31 months without consulting Indigenous people living in the area. Indigenous people were allegedly ...

Blue bonds: A growing resource for sustainability financing

MATT LAWTON, TONGAI KUNORUBWE  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... global economy and support over 30 million jobs. Additionally, the ocean provides a vital source of protein to 3 billion people, and its ecosystems are significant mitigators of climate change. Access to safe, clean, and accessible water is in short ...

Tracking nature: finance lags on biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... boundless, nature is a scarce resource just like any resource... and it's becoming more and more scarce by the day." "If people realised that, we wouldn't be where we are. And we would not have the situation which we have, which is that we are not pricing ...

New Forests invests in Thai peat forest

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... country's second largest peat swamp forest area and spans three provinces in Southern Thailand. More than 60,000 local people depend on fishing and other non-timber forest products from the peat swamp forests for sustenance and livelihoods, New Forests ...

Australian Unity to assist as trustees in compensation deal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... federal government by lead plaintiff Ali Yasmin and a group of fellow Indonesians, who arrived in Australia from Indonesia on people smuggling boats from 2008, Australian Unity said. The victims were at the time children under 18 years old, but "were ...

AI trumps climate as chief risk factor: economists

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... "We've got the ISSB coming and on the Australian version, you're going to need to have more transparency. "Not enough people have the capability or the capacity and that is going to place a lot of pressure on businesses in the coming couple of ...

FS Sustainability opens final voting round for ESG Power50

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... socio-economic future. FS Sustainability has worked with ISS ESG, a leading ESG rating and research company, to make sure that people nominated are employed at companies that meet minimum ESG criteria. It is not mandatory to be a participant in an ESG ...

Decarbonising aluminium key priority for Capral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... than other product, and LocAl Super Green is around about 4-5%, Dragicevich said. "Demand at the moment is modest because people don't like to pay more than they need to," he said. "We have had good success with LocAL Green and we are starting to gain ...

Investors back modern slavery compensation

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... anti-human trafficking strategy and National Action Plan to Combat Modern Slavery includes a support program for trafficked people, which provides financial and counselling assistance to victim-survivors of human trafficking, slavery, forced marriage ...

SIX launches share platform for investors, activists

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... together represent over 2 million potential shareholders. "The importance in what we're building is that it allows people to play to their strength," Verwey said. "NGOs have an appetite for running shareholder advocacy campaigns, they just haven't ...