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New tools available to help investors meet Paris Agreement

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... resources, transition to a circular economy, pollution prevention and control, and protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems. The expansion includes new technical screening criteria, as well as amended criteria for climate change mitigation ...

Nature-related risk a potential risk to directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... shareholder in ANZ has sued the bank over allegations that it has failed to manage the material risks of climate change and biodiversity loss. Catherine Rossiter is a long-term shareholder of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. Rossiter, who ...

Finance eyes $500b green buildings opportunity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... in opportunity," she said. "The real estate sector offers multiple opportunities to address climate, resource, and biodiversity issues - but it can't do it by itself. The finance sector has a key role to play." Green loans and bonds are accelerating ...

Preparing for COP28: nature and climate integration

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... they don't understand". Public support for higher compliance is overwhelming. 97% of Australians support higher biodiversity compliance, with 85% expressing deep concern about biodiversity loss. "They want more action to protect nature, even if they ...

Warakirri launches Sustainability Broadacre Cropping Strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... environmental plantings will be completed on less productive or un-arable areas of assets and designed to maximise biodiversity value. Food production is responsible for approximately 26% of global GHG emissions. But the CSIRO estimate the Australian ...

ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... is taking the bank to court over allegations that it has failed to manage the material risks of climate change and biodiversity loss. Catherine Rossiter is a long-term shareholder of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. Rossiter, who is represented ...

"Looming" governance gap as reporting becomes mandatory

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... specialists are being recruited into core banking and investment teams. Professionals with a background in climate, biodiversity and human rights are in high demand, as well as data analysts and specialists with sustainability experience in the business ...

Impact investing as greenwashing antidote: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon - have not been in the fund. That has been a meaningful headwind for us." While biodiversity is a topic of interest, Balkrishna notes that it is difficult to find companies that meet the revenue threshold minimums ...

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... responsible for the biggest impact on nature. The report, which focuses on aligning Australia's banking with the Global Biodiversity Framework, identifies six lending practices that act as barriers to protecting and restoring nature. It identifies ...

PRI to shake up reporting framework for signatories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... issues that investors are prioritising in their practices. Example areas include climate change, human rights, or biodiversity. During the co-design process with signatories, one of these two models (or a combination of both) will provide the basis for ...