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Cbus becomes Australian Asset Owner Stewardship Code signatory

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... several more funds are expected to sign before the end of 2018. Stewardship codes are in place in the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Hong Kong and South Africa. This is the first stewardship code to focus exclusively on the activities of Australian ...

New Forests joins World Business Council on Sustainable Development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... Forests manages more than 950,000 hectares of land and forests in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United States for sustainable timber production and conservation. New Forests will benefit from the initiatives that WCBSD is undertaking ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... controversial "catch and release" program, which has seen children separated from their parents and housed throughout the United States with chaotic conditions to reunite them with their families. The broad-based coalition partners are planning to leverage ...

New Forests acquires New Zealand assets, closes ANZFF2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... 940,000 hectares of forests, land, and conservation investments in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and the United States. "Wenita manages a high-quality forestry resource that will be a strong addition to the ANZFF2 portfolio," said Matthew Crapp ...

ACSI launches Stewardship Code for Australian asset owners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... assess the focus that asset owners have on good stewardship". Stewardship codes are in place in the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Hong Kong and South Africa. This is the first stewardship code to focus exclusively on the activities of Australian ...

Australia faces challenges in adapting to autonomous vehicle technology: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... Australia ranked 14 out of 20. The top three countries for AV preparedness are the Netherlands, Singapore and the United States. In Australia's case, the biggest barriers are technology and infrastructure-based. The report found "on technology and innovation ...

WA ranks 8th globally in National Resource Governance Institute assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... Australia overall - based on its methodology - "for federal countries with decentralized resource governance (the United States of America, Canada and Australia), we assessed the largest resource-producing region (the Gulf of Mexico, Alberta and Western ...

Investors decry decision by United States president to withdraw from Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
Groups and institutional investors have condemned the decision by the president of the United States to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement. Emma Herd, chief executive officer of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) "The Paris Agreement ...

New Forests expands on forestry sector's role in investment, bio-economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... California, Alaska, and New Mexico as part of its forest-carbon investments on more than 445,000 acres of forests in the United States. "As a company, we've always had a strong interest in the whole linkage between the forestry sector and action on climate ...

Global sustainable, responsible, impact assets hit $22tr: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... action at $8.37 trillion. Negative screening is the largest strategy in Europe, while ESG integration leads in the United States, Canada, Australia/New Zealand and Asia ex Japan, the report noted. Japan's primary sustainable investment strategy is corporate ...