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New Forests acquires New Zealand assets, closes ANZFF2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... management, with more than 940,000 hectares of forests, land, and conservation investments in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and the United States. "Wenita manages a high-quality forestry resource that will be a strong addition to the ANZFF2 ...

Stewart Investors backs research on packaging sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... hierarchy of best practices when it comes to materials and packaging," said Lachlan Feggans, senior manager, sustainability Asia-Pacific at CHEP Australia. "What the tool is designed to do is to have the member organisations reflect on all the packaging ...

New reporting tool to improve Australian packaging sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... continue to build and improve its functionality and usefulness for members. Lachlan Feggans, Senior Manager, Sustainability Asia-Pacific at CHEP Australia speaks highly of the merits of the new tool, "The new APCO Annual Reporting Tool is designed to ...

Macquarie Group issues £500 million facility to finance green projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... under APLMA Green Loan Principles. The loan had "strong demand from global financial institutions, with notable interest in Asia. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Sydney Branch (HSBC) and ING Bank N.V. (ING) acted as Green Structuring ...

IFC invests US$75m in Garanti Bank gender bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... untapped potential for employment and economic growth," said Wiebke Schloemer, IFC Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia. "Our partnership with Garanti Group in Turkey and the region ensures that smaller companies and women entrepreneurs will ...

IGCC, global investors urge G7 to step up game on Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... delivered to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and G7 government leaders. The statement developed by Asia Investor Group on Climate Change, CDP, Ceres, Investor Group on Climate Change, Institutional Investors Group on Climate ...

Alphinity Investment Management launches SDG-linked equity fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... Prior, ESG investment pioneer and former head of ESG research at Citi, and Mark Lyster, co-founder of Action Sustainability Asia Pacific to the SSF Compliance Committee, to provide an independent external review. Data on companies' activities towards ...

Australian Ethical Investment opens 2018 community grants program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... continued growth means we have more money available for grants this year than ever before." The 2017 winners included Wildlife Asia, which works to protect critically endangered rhinos in Sumatra from extinction. It is estimated that just 75 of these ...

Australian CSR professionals appear unprepared for Modern Slavery Act: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... between 5 and 17 years engaged in child labour and over 20 million victims of forced labour - and more likely to occur in the Asia-Pacific region than anywhere else, a region that includes Australia's largest trading partner," the report noted. Report ...

SSGA launches State Street Low Carbon ESG International Equities Index Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... equities indices to reduce carbon emissions and reserves intensity by 50%. Susan Darroch, head of Global Equity BetaSolutions, Asia ex Japan, State Street Global Advisors The State Street Low Carbon ESG International Equities Index Trust is the next ...