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Carbon markets, biodiversity on tap at COP27

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... biodiversity. "The first is about preservation - How much am I funding activities that preserve existing natural capital like forests and oceans? And the second is about restoration - to what extent am I funding activities that promote the regeneration ...

Australia joins COP27 forests partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
Australia has become a founding member of the Forests and Climate Leaders Partnership, launched at COP27 this week, a move that emphasises the importance of forestry assets in climate mitigation. The UK-led voluntary partnership was formally launched ...

New Forests African forestry fund receives US$200m in investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
New Forests has locked in US$200 million in commitments for the African Forestry Impact Platform (AFIP) fund and announced its first acquisition. AFIP will acquire Green Resources, East Africa's largest forest development and wood processing company. ...

Glencore faces greenwashing allegations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... "Since June it has spent more than $84,000 alone on Australian Facebook ads, most of which show EVs, wind turbines and forests and don't even mention coal."

Innova launches ESG model portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... which advocates to protect nature and stop climate damage; and Green Fleet, which aims to protect the climate by restoring forests. "We're striking a balance between doing right by the world and doing right by investors without taking on excessive ...

New Forests increases California forestry holdings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
Nature based real assets and 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 ...

Nomura, Mitsui announce New Forest acquisition as fund reports on impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
New Forests will be acquired by Mitsui & Co and Nomura Holdings as the real assets and natural capital strategies investment manager positions itself to drive change through nature-based solutions, shared prosperity and the circular bioeconomy. Under ...

HSBC funds blue carbon projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... effective way to harness the ability of coastal ecosystems to take up carbon from the atmosphere more efficiently than forests on dry land," HSBC said. The overarching aim of these programs is to increase the supply of projects eligible to generate Australian ...

Biodiversity risk goes to heart of finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... sustainable future is an "accelerating conversation with institutional investors," said Radha Kuppalli, managing director of New Forests Asset Management and head of New Forests' impact and advocacy group. "There's an accelerating set of questions ...

Pollination harvests blue carbon credits from mangrove project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... price of the credits is undisclosed. DBC-1 started in 2015 and has restored more than 73,000 hectares of degraded mangrove forests and tidal wetlands thus far, in an overall tidal wetland space of more than 350,000 hectares. The project is expecting ...