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Draft Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures released

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... towards outcomes that benefit nature rather than destroying biodiversity. Carolin Leeshaa, the Australian-based natural capital and biodiversity global lead at KPMG and one of 34 global Taskforce Members, hailed the release of the beta framework as a ...

New Forests Asia fund reaches $120 million first close

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
Nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies investment manager New Forests has reached first close of its Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2) with US$120 million of capital commitments. Investors in the first close include sovereign wealth ...

CEFC backs soil health technology platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... optimise their decision-making and investments, confidently and efficiently measuring the benefits as they build natural capital and revenues. Traditional soil carbon measurement can be laborious, expensive and captures a minimal sample size over what ...

HSBC Asset Management launches ESG Asia bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... 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.

ANZ takes $50 million stake in Pollination Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... Pollination Climate Asset Management was launched in 2020 with the aim of offering investors "a wide exposure to global natural capital themes in both emerging and developed markets."

Bank Australia taps NAB executive as chief impact officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... recently executive, social impact. Previously, she led NAB's Corporate Social Responsibility function and NAB's natural capital strategy. Bank Australia managing director Damien Walsh cited Courville's experience across sustainability and shared value ...

Leading Harvest to bring ag sustainability standard to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... matters that are important to our investors." Kilter Rural CEO Cullen Gunn noted that Kilter provides reporting on natural capital, saying "we are excited to participate in the Leading Harvest initiative as we believe the development of a broadly accepted ...

Data challenges inhibit ESG integration in sovereign credit ratings: World Bank

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... related to human capital and produced capital are "generally reflected" in sovereign credit ratings assessments, but natural capital is generally not. "We deduce that if a credit assessment were conducted over a longer time horizon, natural capital would ...

2021 theme in review: biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... out up to $27 billion from the Australian economy annually by 2050. ACSI's report Biodiversity: unlocking natural capital value for Australian Investors, outlines the way in which biodiversity loss presents physical, transition and systemic risks ...

What you read in 2021

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... 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. Given the interest in biodiversity at the UN Biodiversity Conference of the Parties ...