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Green moves: CSIRO, Ethinvest, Social Enterprise Australia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... catalytic, systemic change. "In a world facing rising inequality, escalating culture wars, and a worsening climate and biodiversity crisis, the need to act - intentionally and collectively - has never felt more urgent. Still, I carry a strong sense of ...

UBS delays climate target to 2035

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... go towards projects such as green hydrogen hubs, community batteries and clean transport, and programs to conserve biodiversity.

Quinbrook achieves record financing for solar, battery storage project

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... delivering material new renewable capacity whilst alleviating grid constraints, with a sizeable local community and biodiversity benefit. "We see co-location as a highly strategic sector with leading potential to become a centrepiece of UK's medium-term ...

BlackRock moves on natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... capital is now an investable asset, not an externality. Traditionally, environmental factors like water, land, and biodiversity were seen as externalities - important, yet separate from financial models. BlackRock is now treating these as natural capital ...

Investors must take a long-term view: Robeco

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... day-by-day - the financial industry is still committed to the long arc towards net zero, says Robeco climate and biodiversity strategist Lucian Peppelenbos. "It is remarkable that... net-zero-committed investors can report good progress. Most investors ...

Investors slam dumping of nature positive laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... protection and be good for the economy. Around half of Australia's GDP has a moderate to very high dependence on healthy biodiversity and ecosystem, particularly agriculture, forestry, food manufacturing, construction, water and waste services, mining ...

Green budgets fatten amid global uncertainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... particularly manufacturers and automotive companies, followed by solar energy. Sustainable research and development, biodiversity protection and restoration, and water conservation and management are also top areas pinned for expenditure. Global investment ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Institutional 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 ...

Green Moves: S&P, SBTi, Macquarie, Anti-Slavery Commissioner

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Development Goal 14... 'life below water' - enabling financial institutions to rebuild ocean prosperity, restore biodiversity and regenerate ocean health. This follows a stint at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as a senior ...

The big green investing trends of 2025

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... landscape will evolve rapidly as ESG regulations impact transition investing and boost sustainable bonds issuance. Biodiversity finance and artificial intelligence ethics are now seen as financially material risks for investors. "2025 is shaping up to ...