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Biodiversity risk goes to heart of finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... Biodiversity covers a wide range of impacts, are geographically specific and contain a number of risks, including deforestation, land clearing, water, pollution and other considerations, which makes it complex. The TNFD approaches this with a location-based ...

Draft Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures released

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... Biodiversity covers a wide range of impacts, are geographically specific and contain a number of risks, including deforestation, land clearing, water, pollution and other considerations, Herd elaborated. Clients have "a real hunger to understand the ...

Apostle Funds Management launches people and planet fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... and gambling. Investee companies are also assessed for human rights violations, unethical corporate governance and deforestation. According to AFM, the fund can hold allocations to domestic and global equities, property and infrastructure, growth alternatives ...

Pollination harvests blue carbon credits from mangrove project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... project, it's quite extraordinary," Cohn said. "The Indus delta faced a lot of pressure on its mangroves due to deforestation from local harvesting for firewood and construction as well as grazing from feral camels. "In partnership with the provincial ...

Beyond the spin - what did COP26 actually deliver?

SIMON O'CONNOR  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... countries to address many important elements of climate that are essential to combatting climate change, from stopping deforestation, cutting methane emissions, and committing to a transition that is fair and supports workers. Particularly momentous ...

COP26 week one: what Australians need to know

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... which has been welcomed with varying degrees of satisfaction - there have also been a number of announcements around deforestation, methane, accounting standards and other areas. FS Sustainability has spoken with a number of experts this week about how ...

New Forests to partner on African forestry strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... for developing countries and New Forests comes as COP26 countries including Australia pledge to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030, a goal that many view with skepticism. The new partnership will aim to raise up to $500 million over the next three ...

Credible COP26 outcome needed to catalyse private investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... solutions. "The other aspect the UK is looking at is commodity supply chains," Dodwell said. "How do you establish deforestation-free supply chains for food, agriculture and commodities trade and support dialogue on that? The UK has been trying to get ...

La Trobe Financial goes carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Australian native reforestation activities such as the Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor, Vintage 2020, and avoided deforestation projects such as the Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve Project, Indonesia, Vintage 2014. "Our primary criteria was to select ...

New Climate Action 100 engagement to tackle food and beverage sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... supply chain. The report from Climate Action 100+ noted that Australia's beef and dairy industry is impacted by deforestation, pasture management, enteric fermentation - or the fermentation that takes place in the digestive system of animals, manure ...