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Blue bonds: A growing resource for sustainability financing

MATT LAWTON, TONGAI KUNORUBWE  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Issuance of sustainable debt has exploded over the past 10 years as investors seek investment returns by allocating capital toward sustainability efforts. This trend is likely to continue as climate-change-related challenges become increasingly frequent ...

PRI appoints RI ecosystem officers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... Africa. Cambria Allen-Ratzlaff is chief RI ecosystems officer for the Americas and APAC regions, joining the PRI from JUST Capital, a not-for-profit research organisation, where she was managing director and head of investor strategies. Her previous ...

ISSB publishes jurisdictional guide, seeks experts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... across the globe are taking steps to support globally consistent and comparable sustainability-related information for capital markets, adopting ISSB Standards into their legal and regulatory frameworks as companies opt to voluntarily apply the standards ...

Aware and Macquarie partner on green finance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... Asset Management's (MAM) Green Investment Group (GIG). Aware's private equity team will co-invest in Galway Sustainable Capital (GSC), a specialist infrastructure financier acquired by MAM in a US$250 million deal in June. Galway offers scale and efficient ...

Rest makes another impact investment allocation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... invested in an agriculture-focused fund that focuses on sustainable farming, practices and companies. Rest has allocated capital to Cibus Fund II, which "focuses on delivering strong returns through investment opportunities related to the food value ...

New Forests invests in Thai peat forest

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... collaborate with the relevant government authorities and communities to ensure the project's success. The Restoration Seed Capital Facility (RSCF) is also providing support to TAFF2 for the development of the project. Investors in TAFF2 include Mitsui ...

AI trumps climate as chief risk factor: economists

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... convert to renewables. "As an investor, this also provides opportunities," Parker said. Large providers of equity and debt capital are "well-placed" to help facilitate the green transition, but "to do it in such a way that we are not compromising member ...

Decarbonising aluminium key priority for Capral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... mining to smelting to downstream. We are a player in that, but an influencer rather than a driver of that, because those capital decisions are... with the smelters and energy providers to them." Australia is the world's largest exporter of alumina, the ...

Final text of EU ESG laws released

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... disclose and avoid potential conflicts of interest. There will be no obligation to disclose trade secrets or intellectual capital, and ratings providers must review methodologies at least annually. Smaller ESG rating providers will have a reduced rules ...

Rest selects Dasseti for ESG due diligence digitisation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... fund that focuses on sustainable farming, practices and companies. Earlier this week, Rest announced it had allocated capital to Cibus Fund II, which "focuses on delivering strong returns through investment opportunities related to the food value chain." ...