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Australia joins COP27 forests partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... the momentum of global action on climate change through forest-based initiatives and to advancing the ambition of the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use from COP26. Australia is a signatory to that declaration as well. New Forests CEO ...

ASFI Summit to focus on sustainable finance progress, implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... budget but before COP27," Graham said. "COP27 is an implementation COP. COP26 as around commitment and formation of [the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero] GFANZ and the strong commitment of global financial institution, but this one is about implementation ...

New Forests African forestry fund receives US$200m in investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... Investment (BII), Norfund and Finnfund in the development of AFIP. The partnership was announced at COP26 last year in Glasgow. AFIP is aiming to raise US$500 million in long term institutional capital to support the sustainability and development of ...

COP27 preview: loss and damage, action on commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... met last month in Bonn for a Climate Change Conference intended to continue work on issues left unresolved from COP26 in Glasgow. As part of that conference, Australia's new Labor government officially submitted its enhanced nationally determined contribution ...

ISSB launches draft sustainability disclosure standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... conference 6-7 April. FS Sustainability is a media partner to the RIAA annual conference. ISSB was announced during COP26 in Glasgow last November by the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation, the governing body that develops ...

Oliver Wyman appoints ex-Westpac exec as special adviser

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... opportunity to work with Oliver Wyman as they play a global role in the climate agenda as seen in their recent work with Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure and many more industry initiatives." ...

Magnis appoints Global Impact Initiative founder to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... a number of unlisted companies and charities including Arowana International Limited. Magnis has also appointed Duncan Glasgow as general counsel and company secretary. Glasgow has over three decades' experience in general counsel and company secretarial ...

2021 theme in review: biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... interact with climate change, will also be front of mind. Just before the kick-off of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) in early November, the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, took place in Kunming, China. The Kunming Declaration ...

New Forests calls for demand and supply integrity on carbon credits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... voluntary markets, culminating with the resolved negotiations over Article Six of the Paris Agreement shortly after COP26 in Glasgow finished, has brought new focus on the issue. 'New Forests believes demand-side integrity is critical to ensuring that ...

Beyond the spin - what did COP26 actually deliver?

SIMON O'CONNOR  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... always delivers, it is bucketloads of pledges. But if we sift through the various announcements which came out of COP26 in Glasgow, has the needle on the dial shifted on climate action? Entering into this COP, we were hurtling towards a devastating 2.7 ...