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BNP Paribas updates sustainability strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... the firm will deepen its relationship with the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment, mobilise capital for sustainable solutions, invest in emerging markets, and enhance impact investing strategies. It has also committed to ...

Podcast: Banking on the future with Australia's green bank

THE GREENER WAY  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... annualised cumulative return of 4.24%. But almost more importantly, because of their co-investment model, each dollar of CEFC capital attracts just over five dollars of additional private capital to projects. CEFC Executive director Richard Lovell joins ...

VC initiative to catalyse AgTech for climate solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... problems that are real problems for Australian farmers in the first instance, but if we're going to invest venture capital into something, we want to make sure that can scale globally." Beanstalk Drought Venture Studio is likely to look at deeptech ...

A rising tide for blue bond investment: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Blue bonds could help accelerate the growth of the sustainable bond market and direct capital to close this gap. Blue bonds particularly cover SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) and SDG 14 (life below water). To ...

Growing scope for investing in natural capital: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Global investment consultancy bfinance has identified more than 50 asset managers globally who are investing in natural capital. bfinance reported that at a global level, there were more client searches for natural capital manager in 2023 than real estate ...

Global economists identify key risks for the decade ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... nations, pose an "existential threat" to global political stability. The report predicts a global trend of trade wars, higher capital expenditure on a global arms race in new military technology, and ultimately, state collapse. Climate breakdown and ...

Forestry fund raises $450m for natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... investment manager is targeting one million tonnes of carbon abatement over the next decade by harnessing Australia's natural capital. New Forests, manager of nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies, completed the first close of the Australia ...

World Bank breaks record with US$5b sustainable development bond

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... the sovereign, supranational and agency (SSA) market in US dollars in 2024. Lead managers were Barclays Bank PLC, BMO Capital Markets, BNP Paribas, and Citigroup Global Markets. Listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, the bond pays a semi-annual coupon ...

COP28 key outcomes: what it means for finance

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... partnerships or interesting new vehicles that can get the money flowing. There needs to be a lot of chat around catalytic capital - the public sector can use their dollars to be that capital to catalyse massive amounts of private sector money." Farmers ...

COP28: "Weak" Global Stocktake slammed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... financing would need to increase many-fold if climate goals are to be achieved. There is sufficient global private and public capital to close the global investment gap, but there are barriers to redirect capital to climate action. The text calls for ...