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Climate, nature risks no longer 'abstract or long dated': ISS STOXX

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2026  |  NEWS
... may be materially underestimating portfolio risks by assessing climate and nature exposure separately, with biodiversity loss and water stress emerging as growing threats to long term portfolio resilience. The report, Resilience at Risk: Understanding ...

System-level climate risks material in every way: Research

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... systems thinking into stewardship. Similarly, they recognise key risks such as climate change, human rights, biodiversity loss, resource depletion and social inequality, as material threats to long-term performance. Furthermore, that these risks require ...

Green moves: Carbon Markets Institute, Future Fund

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... strategy, focusing on creating commercial opportunities in response to societal challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and affordable housing. She led NAB's decarbonisation pathways work, strengthened banker capability to support clients ...

Conservation initiatives ignore climate risks: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
New research suggests many initiatives to prevent biodiversity loss on private land are ineffective as they typically ignore climate risks. A group of researchers from The University of Queensland, University of New England, and Queensland University ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are increasingly concerned about the "twin crises" of biodiversity loss and climate change resulting from deforestation. That was a key finding of ISS STOXX's Natural Capital Research Institute's first report on how investors ...

The big green investing trends of 2025

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... frameworks, and technologies are driving transformative change in the area of biodiversity, as investors now see biodiversity loss as a financially material issue. Lastly, rapid AI adoption is intensifying environmental and social risks, and US deregulation ...

Investors zero in on nature, human rights nexus

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... extinction, PRI found. The framework noted that agricultural supply chains account for significant terrestrial biodiversity loss including up to 73% of tropical deforestation. PRI was founded in 2005 to understand the investment implications of ESG issues ...

Mega asset manager defends OECD complaint

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... obligations under international frameworks," said Madan. It alleges the asset manager is financing deforestation, biodiversity loss, land grabs, human rights harm, and breaches of Indigenous Peoples' rights. "BlackRock has failed to prevent its investments ...

Is 'nature positive' the next big thing?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... nature-related risks and opportunities' session, the concept of "nature positive", which aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, remains widely misunderstood. "You have to be really careful," said Estelle Parker, co-CEO of the Responsible Investment ...

Social-washing hides lapse in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... for companies and end investors." However, finding investments that actively contribute to some goals, like biodiversity loss, can be challenging. The biggest challenge facing investors is an expertise gap - and a lack of understanding of how complex ...
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