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New Forests acquires US timber asset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... hectares (2.4 million acres) of investments. New Forests is a Certified B Corp and operates in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United States. The Hilt-Siskiyou Forest is currently managed for sustainable timber production under the Sustainable ...

Schroders names APAC sustainability heads

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
Schroders has appointed a head of sustainability strategy, APAC and a head of ESG integration, Asia Pacific as part of building a four-person APAC sustainability team. Mervyn Tang will join Schroders in late July as the new head of sustainability strategy ...

Royal Adelaide Hospital locks in $2bn social, green loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... (RAH). The green loan was structured in accordance with Green Loan Principles and Social Loan Principles 2021 issued by the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association and the Loan Syndications and Trading Association and was certified by DNV GL Business Assurance ...

IGCC names new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has hired a new chief executive officer. Rebecca Mikula-Wright joins IGCC from the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC), where she has been executive director for almost five years. Mikula-Wright will ...

Assessing impacts of nature-based solutions: CMI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... protect and restore biodiversity but could also support local communities and present a source of financial activity in the Asia Pacific region. The Carbon Market Institute (CMI) has published a study, Nature-Based Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region ...

New firm to address nature-based solution market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Point Advisory and a subsidiary of Greening Australia have launched a new business that will deliver nature-based carbon credit projects for business and investors. NatureCo will respond to rapidly growing global demand for high integrity nature-based ...

J.P. Morgan AM acquires forestry firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... long-term investors. We look forward to adding this important sustainable investment capability as we continue to expand our Asia alternatives business." The acquisition also allows the asset manager to build a "robust carbon sequestration platform ...

ASX company signs $1.5bn sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainability linked loan. Ramsay Health Care has inked the first and largest syndicated SLL by a healthcare provider in Asia Pacific. The $1.5 billion loan facility is the largest syndicated SLL by an Australian corporate (ex. financial institutions). ...

ESG ratings "just opinions": Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... levels of data points that are being tracked and opacity around what's driving the ratings," said Dimensional head of Asia-Pacific portfolio management Bhanu Singh. "You have to ask how much are the providers weighting each issue, or how they're ...

Using climate scenarios to assess company risks, return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Using climate scenario analysis to evaluate climate risks at the company level can be an essential tool to identify potential risks as well as potential opportunities, according to Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI). ASI uses climate scenario analysis ...