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Alphinity launches SDG-aligned fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... fossil fuels, controversial fuels such as uranium, gold mining where gold is the primary purpose of the mine, factory farming, live exports, predatory lending, alcohol and gambling, and old growth forestry logging, noted portfolio manager Jeff Thomson. ...

Investing in health and disease prevention is the best cure

MASJA ZANDBERGEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... and reduce hunger. How-ever, these benefits are being offset by massive environmental degradation due to unsustainable farming practices, along with health problems ranging from obesity to heart disease, as diets become higher calorie and heavily processed. ...

CEFC finances Tesla megapack battery project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... invest, while changing the legislative remit of ARENA and the CEFC towards investing in carbon capture and storage, carbon farming and other technologies, and away from renewable energy. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a $1.9 billion investment ...

Agriculture sector can contribute to climate solutions: GreenCollar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... opportunity, you go to the farms and see it happening." GreenCollar is involved in projects and investment in the carbon farming and carbon credit market. Last year, GreenCollar announced it had secured funding for a series of carbon farming projects ...

Bank, state government become first buyers of Reef Credits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... market space, our business model here is the same, where we develop the projects as a partnership. The farmer does the farming, we do the monitoring, and the transactional work, and we bring the credits to market. Once we've sold the credits, we ...

ARENA, CEFC changes open door to CCS, hydrogen investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... remit of ARENA and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) towards investing in carbon capture and storage, carbon farming and other technologies, and away from renewable energy. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a $1.9 billion investment package ...

IIG launches alternative fund-of funds impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... startups which meet the fund's impact thesis, impact debt, social impact bonds, environmental assets and regenerative farming. The fund has a pipeline of early investments, with the first deals expected to happen before the end of the year. "This ...

GreenCollar secures funding for Queensland carbon farming projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Environmental markets project developer and investor GreenCollar has secured funding for a series of carbon farming projects under the Queensland Government's $500M Land Restoration Fund (LRF). The approved projects will generate an estimated value ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... response thus far to this tragedy has been horror at the loss of wildlife, and then the loss of productive capacity in the farming and agriculture and tourism industry, but we have no means by which to measure that," Petersen said. "There are no means ...

Calix identifies six sustainability challenges impacting clients

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... said. "It's pretty well understood through most of the world now, the chemicals we've used to increase productivity of farming activities, have negative effects and they're quite substantial impacts on things like global insect population, global contamination ...