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New Forests adds California forestry assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... financial return." The McCloud Forest sits adjacent to two other investments managed by New Forests, providing economies of scale, local knowledge, and access to already established domestic processing facilities. To date, New Forest has developed over ...

BlackRock raises $500m for Super Battery

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... infrastructure Charlie Reid said: "We firmly believe battery storage is the critical technology of today - applied both on a small scale in homes and for large-scale battery platforms like the Waratah Super Battery. BlackRock is pleased to invest in ...

Strong demand for green bonds: BNP Paribas Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... Bonds program "enabling investors to back public projects driving Australia's net zero transformation and boosting the scale and credibility of Australia's green finance market." The program will be managed by the Australian Office of Financial ...

$20.5 billion cash infusion for Australia's green bank

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... Powering Australia Technology Fund substantially expand the role of the CEFC, alongside its ongoing core businesses. New large-scale investments in priority grid infrastructure projects complement our existing work in transforming our energy system and ...

Global development banks release joint principles towards Paris alignment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... financing mechanisms. Implementing the MDB joint declaration is one step towards enabling the financial system to shift at the scale required to align all financial flows with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The PRI recently called for reforms to multilateral ...

JP Morgan platform to tackle sustainable data

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... tool is a "transformative" solution for investors. "Data for sustainable investing is particularly challenging given its scale, inconsistency, and incompleteness," Francis said. "Fusion combines data, technology, and service at scale, to enable investors ...

Climate Action 100+ ramps up corporate activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... providing greater transparency and more ways for investors to be agents of change. "The goal is ultimately to inspire a global scale-up in terms of active ownership, which to a certain degree is starting to happen already," Proudlove said. "It essentially ...

Climate change most pressing issue for APAC C-Suite: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... are required to decarbonise. That means that 40% isn't available, but what's emerging is a rich ecosystem of start-ups and scale-ups, there's university research that's being commercialised that will provide new technologies and will continue to accelerate ...

Stakeholders weigh in on Nature Repair Market bill

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... called for nature-related corporate disclosures and blended finance mechanisms to de-risk and crown in private capital at scale. "The design features of the market," ASFI said, "should be robust, high-integrity, transparent, and usable". AfN was "strongly ...

CBA invests in native seed merchant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... critical role in helping to meet national climate commitments." CBA notes that native seed is a crucial input for large-scale land restoration projects, maintaining ecosystem function and diversity, providing habitat for native wildlife and boosting ...