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COP26 week one: what Australians need to know

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... which has been welcomed with varying degrees of satisfaction - there have also been a number of announcements around deforestation, methane, accounting standards and other areas. FS Sustainability has spoken with a number of experts this week about how ...

New Forests to partner on African forestry strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... for developing countries and New Forests comes as COP26 countries including Australia pledge to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030, a goal that many view with skepticism. The new partnership will aim to raise up to $500 million over the next three ...

Credible COP26 outcome needed to catalyse private investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... solutions. "The other aspect the UK is looking at is commodity supply chains," Dodwell said. "How do you establish deforestation-free supply chains for food, agriculture and commodities trade and support dialogue on that? The UK has been trying to get ...

La Trobe Financial goes carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Australian native reforestation activities such as the Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor, Vintage 2020, and avoided deforestation projects such as the Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve Project, Indonesia, Vintage 2014. "Our primary criteria was to select ...

New Climate Action 100 engagement to tackle food and beverage sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... supply chain. The report from Climate Action 100+ noted that Australia's beef and dairy industry is impacted by deforestation, pasture management, enteric fermentation - or the fermentation that takes place in the digestive system of animals, manure ...

Cultural factors influence ESG approaches: Morgan Stanley Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... eliminate tobacco, alcohol, adult entertainment and gambling and pork, and Latin America is focused on issues including deforestation, Indigenous people and the state of the Amazon. "We see more questions there about the role of Latin America in the ...

New firm to address nature-based solution market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... integrity of nature-based solutions is going to be a big driver of work." NatureCo identified reforestation, avoided deforestation, river and wetland restoration and blue carbon as areas of priority, and will focus on Asian, African and Latin American ...

Calculating value of biodiversity: BNP Paribas Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... the end of the year." BNP Paribas Asset Management is also evaluating its investments for exposure to water and deforestation risk, and has calculated that their water footprint as 25,000 cubic metres of water used per million euros in sales. "We've ...

Serving up meat's sustainability risks, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... use of migrant workers bringing linguistic challenges, van der Werf said. The beef supply chain's impacts on deforestation has significantly impacted countries such as Brazil, both in terms of grazing and in terms of clearing of forest for the purpose ...

Australia on global list for deforestation hotspots: WWF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
Eastern Australia is one of the top 24 global deforestation front, making Australia the only developed nation on a list from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). WWF's new report Deforestation fronts: Drivers and responses in a changing world, names ...