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BlackRock moves on natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
The world's largest asset manager has quietly acknowledged that natural capital is now an investable asset, not an externality. Traditionally, environmental factors like water, land, and biodiversity were seen as externalities - important, yet separate ...

Investors slam dumping of nature positive laws

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... construction, water and waste services, mining, real estate, transport, accommodation or hospitality. For this reason, natural capital is a key theme for company engagement, with 62% of investors engaging with companies on biodiversity/nature conservation ...

NAB backs green bank for Aussie farmers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... online tool, Towards Net Zero Agriculture Pathfinder, alongside Australia's science agency CSIRO. CEFC head of natural capital Heechung Sung said climate change is both a significant challenge and an "enormous opportunity" for the agriculture sector. ...

Green bank returns $5.4bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... billion to the green bank, taking its total investment to $32.5 billion subject to parliamentary approval. Six natural capital investments of $307.7 million were made during the period, plus more than $140 million went to EVs. Most deals were made under ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... 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 can mitigate deforestation risk in their portfolios while capitalising ...

BNPP AM launches Future Forest Fund

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... BNPP AM said the Future Forest Fund is its first forest fund launched in partnership with Copenhagen-based global natural capital expert IWC. The French fund manager acquired a majority stake in IWC back in 2022 to expand its sustainable private investment ...

First Sentier heeds the call of nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... including the likes of Australia's Alphinity Investment Management, Bank Australia, Metrics Credit Partners, and natural capital fund manager New Forests. It's not just the finance sector that can sign up - corporations like Qantas, educational institutions ...

AXA IM battles poor data on road to net zero

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... countries by 2030, after already lowering exposure to 0.36% by the end of 2023. AXA IM committed €919 million to natural capital solutions, aiming for €1.2 billion by 2028. Its real estate portfolio is the largest in Europe; its carbon intensity ...

UK pension giant eyes Australian timber

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... environment and the forests, and the communities around the forests. "We believe the importance of preserving natural capital will only increase in the coming years. Many aspects of our ecosystem such as forestry, water and agriculture are closely linked ...

Westpac looks for next CSO

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... the past year she led the team to update the company's climate change and human rights statements, establish a natural capital position statement, launch a sustainable finance framework and taxonomy, deliver sustainability training for bankers and board ...