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Finance "misunderstanding" risk of nature loss

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Financiers do not assess and disclose deforestation and biodiversity loss in Australia and may not even be aware of the risk when funding Australia's primary industries. New research from EY commissioned by The Wilderness Society found that deforestation ...

APRA strengthens super fund ESG responsibilities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... dependent on longer term market-wide performance, which in turn is impacted by climate change and increasingly biodiversity loss and rising inequality. APRA's updated guidance should provide greater confidence to funds looking to mitigate such risks ...

Are investors walking the walk when it comes to voting on biodiversity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... boosting private investment in natural capital and nature-based solutions. But investors are failing to take biodiversity loss seriously, the report found, bringing into question whether investors are complying to ESG standards, and whether shareholders ...

Labor's five step plan for biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... the World Economic Forum found that for the next decade, six out of the top ten risks are environmental - and biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse came in at number four. The ministers and Henry cited examples of ecosystem collapse and species decline ...

New nature-based team for AECOM ANZ

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... in Australia and New Zealand. The ANZ-based team aims to address complex problems related to climate change, biodiversity loss, and emissions reduction. The new team will bring together AECOM's specialists in climate resilience, ecology, natural capital ...

Global investors set net zero target, implementation lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... investment framework which enables us to score individual companies on their positive or negative contribution on biodiversity loss," Peppelenbos said. "We look at the five drivers - climate change, land use change, pollution, exploitation of natural ...

Addressing climate change by investing in environmental solutions: TT International

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... products or services which are having a significant positive impact on the issues of both climate change and biodiversity loss. The strategy currently holds around 40-45 securities, Thomas said. "Every company we invest in goes through our environmental ...

Why Australian corporations should act on biodiversity loss and management

LOUISE CAMENZULI, JULIA GREEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... strategies. However, intrinsically related, and often overlooked, are the risks to corporations associated with biodiversity loss. The establishment of the international Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), representing financial ...

Biodiversity risk goes to heart of finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... in the future that may or may not happen and you can hedge against that," Kanzer said. "Like climate change, biodiversity loss isn't a risk far off in the future. "The status quo points to disaster, and there's no hedge against disaster." The ...

Draft Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures released

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... Peppelenbos, Robeco climate strategist. "It is challenging around biodiversity because there are different drivers of biodiversity loss which are difficult to accumulate around impact to single company or issuer," Peppelenbos said. "Pollution is a very ...