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Green moves at MSCI, Future Fund, Minderoo, U Ethical

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... Foundation, a Curtain University professor has joined as Director of OceanOmics. Dr Michael Bunce will join the Natural Ecosystems team in January 2025. He will work on expanding the objectives and partner base to "catalyse marine genomics and environmental ...

Music mecca hits the right note for nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... square metre at a time," Knop said. This brings Wilderlands' track record to over 100,000 square metres of vulnerable ecosystems protected, and TEM has now offset over 11 million tonnes of carbon emissions across 30 countries. Projects include TEM's ...

Standards boards unite for global rollout

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... methodology pilot building on the recently published GRI 101 Biodiversity Standard and the ISSB's imminent Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services project. According to IFRS Foundation trustees chair Erkki Liikanen, regulators and standard ...

ISSB digital standards not perfect

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... new priority research initiatives related to nature-related and human capital risks and opportunities. Biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and human capital are all on the table. It will not immediately act on human rights - but it will monitor ...

Three innovations to fix carbon market

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... Australia's carbon market requires three innovations: Carbon projects that incentivise the protection and restoration of ecosystems, Infrastructure for a strict science-based nature repair market that complements the carbon market, and A new public fund ...

Blue bonds: A growing resource for sustainability financing

MATT LAWTON, TONGAI KUNORUBWE  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... by deploying increasing amounts of capital to sustainable projects. Increasing degradation of inland water and ocean ecosystems have created an urgent need for solutions. Blue bonds are becoming an innovative means to finance marine projects as well ...

Tracking nature: finance lags on biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... approach to nature restoration: 30% by 2030, 60% by 2040, and 90% by 2050. 81% of habitats across the EU are degraded. Ecosystems and agriculture are at risk from wildlife loss and the disappearance of pollinators like bees, butterflies and hoverflies ...

PRI appoints RI ecosystem officers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has hired a chief RI ecosystems officer for the Americas and APAC and promoted another to a similar role covering the UK, Europe and India, Middle East and Africa. Cambria Allen-Ratzlaff is chief RI ecosystems ...

Nature-related disclosures underway

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... first cohort of adopters are taking steps towards enhancing transparency and disclosure regarding biodiversity and ecosystems. The more than 100 financial institutions, representing US$14 trillion in assets under management, include some of the world's ...

China relaunches offsets market, releases biodiversity framework

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... risk management and disclosure framework that organisations can use to uncover their impacts and dependencies on the ecosystems in which they operate. It covers biodiversity mainstreaming, reducing biodiversity loss, and modernising biodiversity governance. ...