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Forestry fund raises $450m for natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies, completed the first close of the Australia New Zealand Landscapes and Forestry Fund (ANZLAFF) with A$450 million raised from institutional investors in Australia and Europe. The fund is a response ...

Agriculture funding takes the stage at COP28

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... develop meaningful decarbonisation strategies aligned with national and global targets," and "furthermore, we believe for forestry, land and agriculture, that new technologies in climate reporting and management such as artificial intelligence (AI) and ...

Only one sector set to meet emissions reduction targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... performer, with emissions reduced at more than the rate needed to achieve 2025 emissions reduction targets, while the forestry sector has reduced emissions - but at a fraction of the target rate. Global preparedness to achieve net zero by 2050 is less ...

New Forests to sell NZ assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Global nature-based real assets manager New Forests is selling four of its New Zealand forestry assets. The four estates, located across New Zealand's North and South Islands, are being sold as the fund manager completes the term of the second round ...

ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... $1.3 billion in 2021 to $267 million in 2022. ANZ also reported a combined $52 billion exposure in 2022 to agriculture, forestry, fishing and mining sectors, which are generally highly dependent on biodiversity. "ANZ's peers are significantly reducing ...

Impact investing as greenwashing antidote: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... or water quality. "We have struggled to find direct biodiversity ideas that would directly result in an improvement in forestry, for example," he said. "You can find indirect impacts of companies where companies are impacting less on biodiversity in ...

UniSuper, pension funds buy forestry fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
UniSuper and a consortium of European pension funds have acquired a Tasmanian forestry estate from a New Forests managed fund. UniSuper, the UK's Pension Protection Fund (PPF), and APG Asset Management N.V (APG) on behalf of its Dutch pension fund client ...

Forestry companies create global engagement body

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
A coalition of forestry companies including New Forests have launched a collaborative engagement body that will advocate on issues including climate change, biodiversity loss and halting and reversing deforestation. The International Sustainable Forestry ...

Finance "misunderstanding" risk of nature loss

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... biodiversity are worth trillions of dollars each year. Due to impacts and dependencies within the value chains of agriculture, forestry, and development, these losses can become material financial risks for companies and their finances without effective ...

Building sustainable supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... value creation - Feggans pointed to work Brambles does in regions that don't have sustainable certification in timber and forestry products and assisting supply chain partners with gaining that certification and improving the qualities of the timber ...