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NAB opposes resolution on nature risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
A shareholder resolution filed against NAB over inaction on deforestation will go ahead, but another launched by Market Forces has been abandoned. This comes as new research finds claims of increased forest cover in Australia are misleading. The resolution ...

IFM Investors closes in on 2030 emissions reduction target

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
... assessment, the 2025 report also confirmed that only a small proportion of the company's holdings are exposed to high deforestation risk. This has allowed for the focused management of the risk through stewardship activities, the firm said. Across Australian ...

NAB subject to Australia's first bank shareholder resolution on nature risk

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
Australia's largest agribusiness lender NAB will face the nation's first shareholder resolution on nature and deforestation risk. The groundbreaking resolution demands greater transparency about how much the bank lends to customers involved in deforestation ...

Financial materiality of nature-related risks now clear: TNFD

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... assets, the fourfold increase in costs of biological invasions per decade, pests and pathogens destroying crop yields, deforestation increasing flood risks, and monocrop tree plantations reducing flood protections, among other things. As a result, the ...

Australian banks fail to manage financed deforestation: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
Latest findings identified mortgages provided by major banks are contributing to deforestation, with just one bank having made a 'No deforestation' commitment. The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) conducted analysis of 100 land titles and found ...

Warakirri adds kiwifruit orchards to farmland fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... will specifically exclude assets involving the farming of tobacco, hemp, cannabis, palm oil, planned or historic deforestation, and short-hold farmland strategies. The fund's indicative portfolio spans a max of sectors, with up to 50% allocated to fruit ...

Scottish Widows mandates Robeco to build new ESG indices

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... frameworks and innovations." The pair will also co-publish analysis and papers on the energy transition, nature and deforestation. Eva Cairns, Scottish Widows' head of responsible investment, said: "We've been working hard behind the scenes on enhancing ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... investors are increasingly concerned about the "twin crises" of biodiversity loss and climate change resulting from deforestation. That was a key finding of ISS STOXX's Natural Capital Research Institute's first report on how investors can mitigate ...

Investors zero in on nature, human rights nexus

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... agricultural supply chains account for significant terrestrial biodiversity loss including up to 73% of tropical deforestation. PRI was founded in 2005 to understand the investment implications of ESG issues and support members in ESG integration. ISS ...

Mega asset manager defends OECD complaint

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... to fulfill its obligations under international frameworks," said Madan. It alleges the asset manager is financing deforestation, biodiversity loss, land grabs, human rights harm, and breaches of Indigenous Peoples' rights. "BlackRock has failed to prevent ...