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QSuper members call for greater climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... scenario analysis since 2015, and last year approved a Climate Action Plan for its investment portfolio. The Australian Conservation Foundation has spearheaded a campaign to get QSuper members to sign an open letter to QSuper, asking for greater commitment ...

Role of oil and gas in net zero emission future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... group in Perth. Representatives from the Investor Group on Climate Change/Climate Action 100+ and the Australian Conservation Panel debated the role of gas as a transition fuel with an executive vice president of Shell Australia and the state geologist ...

HSBC, partners to identify blue carbon projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... mid-north NSW coast. The project will also establish a framework for capital market assets that can be used to raise conservation finance, as a step towards establishing natural capital as an investment asset class, HSBC said. "We've made the commitment ...

First Sentier launches unit for sustainability research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... a collaborative investor engagement programme of 30 institutional investors in collaboration with the UK's Marine Conservation Society, Steinberg said. The program will focus on encouraging manufactures of domestic and commercial washing machines to ...

Property fund inks multi-billion dollar sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... environmental KPIs, the loans will be linked to achievements in emissions reduction, renewable energy usage, water conservation and reuse, waste reduction and other resource efficiency, while social will be tied to diversity and inclusion and community ...

Investors back climate bill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
A range of investors have backed independent MP Zali Steggall draft climate change law in testimony to a parliamentary inquiry. A broad swathe of businesses, conservationist, scientist, health professionals and investors have broadly backed the proposed ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... to $100 billion over the next five years, and invest in clean energy, housing, health and wellbeing, education and conservation, among other themes. As demonstrated in the RIAA study, impact investing has been concentrated in fixed income and real assets ...

Australia on global list for deforestation hotspots: WWF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Australia alongside the most infamous places in the world for forest destruction," said Martin Taylor, WWF-Australia conservation scientist. "Despite Queensland restoring some restrictions in 2018, eastern Australia remains a deforestation front. That ...

GreenCollar secures funding for Queensland carbon farming projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... to our model." GreenCollar outlined the five projects that they will pursue as a result of LRF funding: Beef and Conservation for the Future (Monto QLD) 50,000 total carbon credits (ACCUs) estimated to be generated over 10 years 1544ha of native vegetation ...

HSBC, Pollination Group to launch natural capital asset manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... countries as an example of past work. The Forest Bond was developed with FC developed the Forests Bond with BHP and Conservation International. Pollination worked with BHP and Conservation International as part of the process. The first fund, which aims ...