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Ethical investments recover performance: Chant West

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... framework. Its negative exclusions include fossil fuel production, weapons and armaments, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, deforestation, human rights violations and unethical corporate governance. It targets investments that have a measurable contribution ...

Asset managers failing on 2050 goals: InfluenceMap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... correlates with data from ShareAction in June finding the world's largest 77 asset managers lack ambition on net zero, deforestation, and other climate and biodiversity issues. With $72 trillion in cumulative assets under management, InfluenceMap found ...

Chinese listed companies that invest in ESG show higher quality financial reporting: Study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... relations, and diversity," Wu said. "Examples of environmental impacts include climate change, waste and pollution, deforestation, and resource depletion." "Factors that determine the quality of governance are executive pay, corruption, board composition ...

Nature Market Repair Bill: why some farmers oppose biodiversity offsets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... habitats such as wetland draining for agricultural use or ocean pollution, and only a quarter have commitments on deforestation. A survey of 455 farmers in Australia that found that while 60% would participate in the scheme, just 16% supported the use ...

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

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... being misled. The research analysed 26,587 votes on biodiversity-related shareholder resolutions on themes including deforestation, genetic materials, and other biodiversity issues. It found that the majority (54%) voted against biodiversity and almost ...

Investment opportunities in a changing global food system

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... food production. Agriculture is a major emitter - accounting for 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions, 80% of deforestation, and 70% of freshwater consumption, the report found. 40% of global cropland has already been exposed to water scarcity. The ...

AI and ESG: risk or opportunity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... sustainability strategies. AI tools can optimise energy consumption, produce more accurate climate modelling, monitor deforestation, screen candidates without bias. AI can be applied to produce a potential improvement in resource management through asset ...

American Century Investments on impact investing and best in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... cobalt mines for cell phone components - something referred to as "artisan mining". She said the EU Regulation on deforestation-free supply chains are of concern to emerging economies and may negatively impact on the just transition. "In the EU, the ...

Investors flag decarbonisation, real world impacts as priorities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... climate data is a challenge, and biodiversity data is a challenge on a different scale." NTAM have selected water and deforestation to focus on as frameworks like TNFD are evolving because they are areas that have more data disclosure and data coverage ...

Australian Ethical divests from Lendlease over koala concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... across other sectors - the financial sector and the retail sector, for example, and thinking in particular around deforestation because that is the key driver around nature loss and is an issue that is pretty important in Australia," she added. Image ...