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New Forests hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainable forest plantations, areas of natural forest conservation, carbon projects, rural land and row-cropping, and timber processing in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United States.

Global fund manager buys Australian forestry asset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... and housing markets - AXA IM noted that 70% of GTFP's harvest is currently manufactured into high value structural timber for the construction industry. In addition to the 24,000 hectares in the GTFP asset, AXA IM Alts also owns nearly 60,000 hectares ...

New Forests acquires US timber asset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... institutional investor client. New Forests' investment strategy in the US is to acquire and manage forestry assets for sustainable timber production, environmental market exposures, and conservation, in order to generate higher returns than a timber-only ...

J.P. Morgan AM acquires forestry firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... manager to build a "robust carbon sequestration platform, said J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives global head Anton Pil. "Timber investing further enhances our asset class offerings in our alternatives business, ultimately passing along the unique benefits ...

Opinion: 2021 Reboot: three ways to innovate for impact

WARWICK PEEL, GORDON NOBLE  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... COVID-19, we have also been hit with trade bans in key economic industries including barley, beef, wine, seafood, cotton and timber. At the same time as our domestic industries are being hit our superannuation funds are continuing to increase their investments ...

Scentre Group to increase disclosure for cleaning contracts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... environmental and social metrics, and it's literally an unlimited universe if you wanted to track conflict minerals, timber, Indigenous affairs, the capabilities are there, the ability is there to expand on any metric that they want." However, to ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... business will drive the innovation agenda further and further. One of the companies we're invested in, they replace timber decking with composites decking made from recycled plastic. Their R&D is going to making that as efficient as possible. Our ...

Brambles reports progress on 2020 sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... and they have reduced CO2 emission per unit delivered by 33%, exceeding their 20% target. Brambles has also reduced its timber product waste to landfill to zero, and has reduced its plastic product waste by 94%. Feggans acknowledged that the 2020 target ...

Research project to study sustainable forestry in East Arnhem

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... after a number of years of activities," said Jordy Bowman CEO of DEAL. " Gumatj Corporation has already been harvesting timber from a Rio Tinto mining site, and they are looking at how we could expand out to other available markets and other regions. ...

IIG announces tenants for Younghusband Woolstores development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... project will retain and protect Younghusband's existing structures, highlighting Younghusband's 19th century red brick, timber and iron, and adding modern energy and water efficient building systems, IIG said. The sawtooth roof will be fitted with solar ...