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Tracking nature: finance lags on biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
Major financial intuitions and companies are falling behind on global deforestation, as the EU enacts a new law to protect and restore nature. 75% of the Earth's land surface has been significantly altered by human activities, according to the UN Environment ...

BNP Paribas updates sustainability strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... will strengthen its nature-based solutions offerings, including establishing a future forestry fund and engage on deforestation, sustainable proteins, and plastics pollution. Also by 2025 the firm will incorporate enhanced social indicators into its ...

Finance realignment urged as nature-positive trails 30:1

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... financing of nature destruction. "The net is tightening, with increased regulatory pressure in key areas like tackling deforestation, it means that those companies and financial institutions still driving the problem now need to make best use of the ...

COP28: Australia commits $150m to Pacific resilience

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and national adaptation plans by 2025. Built environment and deforestation COP28 also had a focus on the built environment, including urbanisation and transport. The Global Stocktake found that NDCs ...

Corporate net zero plans at odds with anti-climate lobbying

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... targets being set. ShareAction in June found the world's largest 77 asset managers lack ambition on net zero, deforestation, and other climate and biodiversity issues.

Nature-related risk a potential risk to directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... agenda." Some areas of nature-related risk are regulated under environmental laws like air and water pollution, deforestation and waste disposal, thus giving companies a basis for already-existing data and analysis, nature-related dependency and impact ...

Impact investing as greenwashing antidote: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... that it is difficult to find companies that meet the revenue threshold minimums for positive impact on areas like deforestation or water quality. "We have struggled to find direct biodiversity ideas that would directly result in an improvement in forestry ...

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... consistent with the Framework, which include to: set science-based targets for reducing nature impact, adopt no deforestation policies in line with global best practice voluntary commitments, incorporate ecosystem services into land valuations, apply ...

Solving carbon credit concerns with blockchain

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... voluntary carbon credit." The platform will enable project developers to enhance their "focus on initiatives to avoid deforestation by streamlining time consuming administration tasks," he said. Further project developers include a direct air capture ...

US regulator adopts tighter rules for ESG fund names

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... 'ESG' or 'fossil free' fund, they expect to reduce their climate risk and not own big oil, coal, and deforestation," said As You Sow CEO Andrew Behar. " These new rules will help provide needed truth in advertising and make a statement ...
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