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New Forests increases California forestry holdings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... natural capital strategies manager New Forests has purchased approximately 108,000 acres of forestry estate in Northern California. The estate consists of productive mixed conifers, including fir and pine, in the Mount Shasta region, and presents "significant ...

Biodiversity risk goes to heart of finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... thing to realise is that carbon markets are only just one mechanism to invest in nature," Kuppalli said. If I take the California carbon market, which is the second largest carbon market in the world, 80% of the carbon credits are coming from forest ...

Franklin Templeton hires CalPERS exec for new global head of sustainability role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... Franklin Templeton has created a new role of global head of sustainability and hired a heavy hitting exec from the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) to fill it. Franklin Templeton has hired Anne Simpson to the role of global head ...

New Forests calls for demand and supply integrity on carbon credits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... reforestation." New Forests currently operates in government-regulated carbon credit markets and manages projects governed by the California Air Resources Board, the Australian Clean Energy Regulator, and the New Zealand EPA, and said they expect to ...

Greenpeace reveals greenwashing ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
Setting and meeting a 100% renewable electricity goal by 2025 is "the key measure of credibility of any corporate climate action plan," according to Greenpeace. Greenpeace Australia Pacific has launched Hero to zero: uncovering the truth of corporate ...

New Forests acquires US timber asset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... part of a sustainable forest strategy. New Forests acquired the Hilt-Siskiyou Forest, a mixed-conifer forest along the California and Oregon border, from the Fruit Growers Supply Company (FGS) alongside an institutional investor client. New Forests' ...

Investors to increase climate-linked passive investments: DWS Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... as France's legislative move to require mandatory carbon reporting for companies as well as pension investors; and California's Insurance Commissioner's ruling that insurance companies doing business in his state have to divest from companies that derive ...

Investing in insurance linked securities, integrating climate risk: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... insurance linked securities and quantitative research, Amundi Natural disasters like the bushfires in New South Wales and California, hurricanes and cyclones, their frequency and intensity, and the impacts of climate change have all been headline news ...

Corporate culture a factor in stock selection: WCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... comes up often, we know it aligns to the organisation, that they're on the same page." WCM Investment Management is a California-based global equities firm that manages over AU$42 billion. Contango Asset Management distributes WCM's Quality Global Growth ...

Companies engage with material human rights issues: BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... issues within the human rights domain. For example, modern slavery and human trafficking are the key topics of the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act and the UK Modern Slavery Act." The report also references the foreshadowed Australian Modern ...