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Just 5% of global emissions covered by corporate targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... highlighting where more action is needed. CDP will further develop the tracker to include nature-based solutions such as forests, water security, wetlands, and ocean degradation. "Accessible climate data supports a better understanding of decisions that ...

New nature-based team for AECOM ANZ

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... globally, and Natural Capital Laboratory Scotland, a 100-acre site aiming to engage the local community to restore native forests and identify, quantify, and value the impacts of rewilding. AECOM's newly established ANZ nature-based solutions team aims ...

Leading Harvest launches Australian ag sustainability standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... agribusiness division, Conservis, a farm management software company, and New Agriculture, the newly formed subsidiary of New Forests. "There too what we found is that there's a lot of consistency between the US and Australia," Fahey said. "We had ...

New Forests appoints new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
After almost two decades in the role, David Brand is stepping down as chief executive of New Forests. Brand has held the role for 17 years and said it is time to do what he loves most, which is "looking at strategic growth opportunities in new markets ...

New Forests launches ANZ forestry and agriculture fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
New Forests has launched a fourth Australia and New Zealand forestry and agriculture-based fund with the aim of raising $600 million in the next two to three years. The $10 billion global nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies investment ...

Carbon markets, biodiversity on tap at COP27

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... biodiversity. "The first is about preservation - How much am I funding activities that preserve existing natural capital like forests and oceans? And the second is about restoration - to what extent am I funding activities that promote the regeneration ...

Australia joins COP27 forests partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
Australia has become a founding member of the Forests and Climate Leaders Partnership, launched at COP27 this week, a move that emphasises the importance of forestry assets in climate mitigation. The UK-led voluntary partnership was formally launched ...

New Forests African forestry fund receives US$200m in investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
New Forests has locked in US$200 million in commitments for the African Forestry Impact Platform (AFIP) fund and announced its first acquisition. AFIP will acquire Green Resources, East Africa's largest forest development and wood processing company. ...

Glencore faces greenwashing allegations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... "Since June it has spent more than $84,000 alone on Australian Facebook ads, most of which show EVs, wind turbines and forests and don't even mention coal."

Innova launches ESG model portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... which advocates to protect nature and stop climate damage; and Green Fleet, which aims to protect the climate by restoring forests. "We're striking a balance between doing right by the world and doing right by investors without taking on excessive ...