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Australia's ecosystems get a dollar value

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... second most valuable service was grazed biomass - the amount of feed naturally produced by the environment for sheep and cattle - valued at $40.4 billion. ABS head of environment statistics Jonathon Khoo said this figure represents the estimated amount ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... the most deforestation-prone countries, with land-use change being the prominent driver of nature loss. Industries like cattle, palm oil, soy, timber, cocoa, coffee, and rubber are the biggest drivers of deforestation, resulting in soil fertility decline ...

Green moves: Fremantle Seaweed, Impact&ble, Emmi, Petuna Aquaculture

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... help the company in its quest to supply Aussie agriculture with red asparaguses seaweed, which can reduce emissions from cattle by up to 80% when added to feed. The agriculture sector contributes to over 10% of Australia's greenhouse gases. "I've ...

Mega asset manager defends OECD complaint

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... shareholder in each of the 20 companies." Of the asset manager's holdings in 20 companies in the palm oil, pulp/paper, soy, cattle, timber, and biomass, FOE found documented evidence of ecological harm and human rights abuses between January 2019 and ...

Nature now a fiduciary duty and financial risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... Industries most destructive to nature include agriculture, infrastructure, and resource extraction -notably, palm oil, soya, cattle, and paper. In August, Woolworths' announced it will stop selling beef linked to deforestation, following pressure ...

Tracking nature: finance lags on biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... for the four highest risk commodities which drive two thirds of tropical deforestation. These commodities include soy, cattle products (beef and leather), timber products (timber and pulp and paper), and palm oil. The new EU law includes further provisions ...

Agriculture funding takes the stage at COP28

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... agro-business. Wollemi aggregates agro-climate and life-cycle emissions data for agricultural production sub-sectors, such as beef cattle, using a combination of public data and both public or open source data, which is also supplemented with high resolution ...

Record number of soil ACCUs issued for Queensland graziers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... soils over the five-year reporting period. The pair came up against seasonal challenges of dry weather and fluctuating cattle prices but implemented a series of land management practices and activities to improve soil conditions. This included subdivision ...

Podcast: Alex Banks - she speaks for the trees

THE GREENER WAY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... funding is going into the forest assets, mining, and farming while the majority of European financing is going into the cattle and sheep sectors. Stepping into the role of the Lorax, Alex talks about the urgent need for investors and financiers to assess ...

Finance "misunderstanding" risk of nature loss

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... funding is going into the forest assets, mining, and farming while the majority of European financing is going into the cattle and sheep sectors. The research, launched this week at the Investor's Group on Climate Change (IGCC) Summit in Sydney ...
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