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Impact investing as greenwashing antidote: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... or water quality. "We have struggled to find direct biodiversity ideas that would directly result in an improvement in forestry, for example," he said. "You can find indirect impacts of companies where companies are impacting less on biodiversity in ...

UniSuper, pension funds buy forestry fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
UniSuper and a consortium of European pension funds have acquired a Tasmanian forestry estate from a New Forests managed fund. UniSuper, the UK's Pension Protection Fund (PPF), and APG Asset Management N.V (APG) on behalf of its Dutch pension fund client ...

Forestry companies create global engagement body

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
A coalition of forestry companies including New Forests have launched a collaborative engagement body that will advocate on issues including climate change, biodiversity loss and halting and reversing deforestation. The International Sustainable Forestry ...

Finance "misunderstanding" risk of nature loss

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... biodiversity are worth trillions of dollars each year. Due to impacts and dependencies within the value chains of agriculture, forestry, and development, these losses can become material financial risks for companies and their finances without effective ...

Building sustainable supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... value creation - Feggans pointed to work Brambles does in regions that don't have sustainable certification in timber and forestry products and assisting supply chain partners with gaining that certification and improving the qualities of the timber ...

Sustainable finance heavyweight to chair National Reconstruction Fund board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... investment areas - renewables and low emissions technologies; medical science; transport; value-add in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors; value-add in resources; defence capability; and enabling capabilities. It was announced as one of ...

NGS tracking ahead on 2030 net zero pledge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... utilisation and storage (CCUS). "We're looking at natural capital - biodiversity and the credits they can contain - through forestry and those assets, they're the primary areas that we are working on at the moment," Squires said. "This research is underway. ...

New Forests adds California forestry assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... processing facilities. To date, New Forest has developed over 20 million forest carbon offset credits and was one of the first forestry companies to develop carbon credits through California's cap-and-trade system. Last year, New Forests launched ...

Stafford Capital Partners launches sustainable timber impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... tonne of C02). Timber investments historically generate approximately 5% return on investment, but the combination of the forestry activity with carbon offset activity is aimed at strengthening that return, said Stafford Capital Partners CEO Angus Whiteley. ...

New Forests appoints new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... record across our Australia, New Zealand and United States businesses with a vision to see investment in land use and forestry as key to the transition to a sustainable future," Brand said. New Forests will now undertake a search for a new head of the ...