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Centuria launches unlisted agriculture fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... Centuria joint CEO Jason Huljich. "The fund has a two-prong investment strategy. It will primarily focus on precision farming assets, such as glasshouse production, netted crops, vertical farming and properties with access to water, substrate growing ...

Leading Harvest to bring ag sustainability standard to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... development of a broadly accepted framework of guiding principles will encourage new investment in genuine sustainable farming practices." Image courtesy of Leading Harvest

Property manager buys nearly 100,000 carbon credits for offsetting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... Fire Abatement Project and the Tallering Station Human Induced Regeneration Project. Two of these are indigenous carbon farming projects. "When we committed to being carbon neutral three years ago, we worked to set out two principles with our carbon ...

Kilter Rural in $70m mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... sink." Crops from the fund farms are 40% organic and 60% conventional. Carbon credits earned through reforesting 30% of the farming landscape are sold in both the European and domestic markets. Kilter Rural is one of the largest sub-surface drip (high ...

CEFC in $50m agri-platform investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has invested $50 million towards a sustainable farming platform aimed at using data-driven practices to make farms more productive and resilient to climate change. The CEFC made the allocation to the Transforming ...

Carbon offsets essential to net zero ambitions: Grattan Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... capture the CO2, there's no difference between paying me to put the CO2 underground and paying a farmer to change the farming habits to contain the methane emissions from cattle. "The problem with some CCS technologies is that they don't capture 100% ...

HSBC Australia to explore mangrove bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Bhattacharjee said. The Queensland state government has a $500 million Land Restoration Fund, which aims to expand carbon farming in the state by supporting land-sector projects that deliver additional environmental, social and economic co-benefits ...

Andrew Forrest steps up No Pain No Fear campaign

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... practices "unfounded" and said that Huon "was the first and only seafood producer in Australia to achieve RSPCA Approved Farming certification." Forrest noted that he has been developing the practices behind No Pain, No Fear "for about six or seven years." ...

Mitsubishi buys stake in Australian carbon credit developer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... Projects have the potential to generate a substantial flow of carbon credits which can be monetised through the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI). "AIC are excited to deploy our environmental and financial expertise to expand our portfolio as nature-based ...

Alphinity launches SDG-aligned fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... fossil fuels, controversial fuels such as uranium, gold mining where gold is the primary purpose of the mine, factory farming, live exports, predatory lending, alcohol and gambling, and old growth forestry logging, noted portfolio manager Jeff Thomson. ...