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Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... agriculture, with $47 billion of outstanding loans from leading Australian banks, is the subsector responsible for the biggest impact on nature. The report, which focuses on aligning Australia's banking with the Global Biodiversity Framework, identifies ...

Treasury issues statement on systemic climate risk to government bonds

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Exchange-traded Australian Government Bonds. This systemic risk includes the physical and transition risk of climate change and its impact on the value of government bonds. The case was settled on August 7 and a court hearing on the settlement approval ...

ESG factors increasingly drive financial decisions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... here, it is up to asset managers to translate their commitments into reality and ensure their engagement has the desired impact on industry practices."

Role for finance after No vote

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... ignore Indigenous interests. However, Indigenous interests are critical to best practice since economic activities often impact on Indigenous rights and lands. Over 50% of Australia's land has some form of Indigenous interest, whether that be freehold ...

Investors prepare for urgent action on nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... and climate change pose significant risks to natural and financial assets. "All companies have a dependency or a direct impact," Yazbek-Martin said. "It is a financial risk," Bradshaw said, adding that biodiversity and climate are interdependent and ...

Investors lack clarity, rural solutions lack funding

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... fund remote, rural and regional non-profit organisations to help them implement practices and solutions that reduce the impact of the changing climate on their local communities and business. This comes as recent research from The Investor Group on Climate ...

Farm to table reporting to increase ag investment certainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... metrics by data providers. "This is a really important program and one that AgriFutures is pleased to support to drive impact for levy payers and build the long-term prosperity of Australia's rural industries and communities."

Connecting capital to nature the next challenge: ASFI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... reduce your carbon emissions so that we can reduce greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, you can actually have quite a direct impact.... We really try to think about how do we translate some of the things that are happening on the ground with the investment ...

ASX50 lags on disclosure of political spending: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... the policy decisions being made," Hogan noted. "At ACCR, we focus on energy and resource companies because of the climate impact and the historic influence that these companies have on policy - particularly with regard to climate and transition. "We ...

Reducing risk and navigating a just transition

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Steering the economy away from emissions-intensive industries comes significant social and economic risks that arise from transitioning communities. Institutional investors need to integrate these risks into their strategies or risk a "messy, chaotic ...