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Impact investor boosts affordable housing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... arrays and two carbon farms set to sequester an impressive 570,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. Through CIM funding, carbon farming not-for-profit Greening Australia has boosted biodiversity and carbon sequestration outcomes with native plantings. Through ...

Canberra to expand ACCU scheme

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... market and firm up its integrity. Last year the Climate Change Authority undertook a review of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011. The review assessed additionality, permanence, and leakage, supply and demand, land use competition ...

Shareholders to pressure supermarkets over seafood sourcing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... to prevent the extinction of a rare species. 130 investors are targeting Woolworths and Coles to drop industrial salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour in the west coast of Tasmania. The farms threaten the endangered Maugean Skate, a species now depleted ...

BHP, Rio Tinto, Qantas back carbon credits fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... develop large-scale carbon sequestration projects by replanting cleared areas while ensuring the land remains productive for farming. "These high-integrity environmental planting projects combine robust carbon credit methodologies with ongoing farming ...

Retail CSOs do a shuffle

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... decarbonisation and circularity. However, the group has faced criticism from environmental campaigners for the impact of its salmon farming on the endangered Maugean Skate in Tasmania. It has also fielded a senate inquiry over price gouging allegatio ...

Cannon-Brookes backs rural climate fund

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... program, funded by Cannon-Brookes' $1.5 billion philanthropy Boundless Earth and charity Hand Heart Pocket. Regenerative farming for soil health and emissions reductions in Macleay NSW was awarded $14,957. $20,000 was allotted towards build energy ...

Rest makes another impact investment allocation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... return. Earlier this month, Rest announced it had invested in an agriculture-focused fund that focuses on sustainable farming, practices and companies. Rest has allocated capital to Cibus Fund II, which "focuses on delivering strong returns through investment ...

Rest selects Dasseti for ESG due diligence digitisation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... digitization, automation, and collaboration. Rest has invested in an agriculture-focused fund that focuses on sustainable farming, practices and companies. Earlier this week, Rest announced it had allocated capital to Cibus Fund II, which "focuses on ...

Rest increases impact investment with Cibus fund allocation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Rest has invested in an agriculture-focused fund that focuses on sustainable farming, practices and companies. Rest has allocated capital to Cibus Fund II, which "focuses on delivering strong returns through investment opportunities related to the food ...

SIX launches share platform for investors, activists

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... Foundation, Bob Brown Foundation, Ethinvest, Ethical Investment Advisers and NGOs Ekō, Environment Tasmania, Neighbours of Fish Farming and Living Oceans Society on the campaign to change the Woolworths and Coles salmon supply chain to save the Maugean ...