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Global economists identify key risks for the decade ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Advancements in AI, quantum computing and biotechnology will provide partial solutions to some crises - such as healthcare, food security and climate mitigation - but drive inequality and widen the gap between the haves and have-nots. However, rampant ...

Nature credits a potential bonanza for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... biodiversity offset market. "Agriculture is a sector for carbon credits, biodiversity credits and the real issue of food security," Smith said. "There has to be a holistic way where our agricultural communities can farm sustainably, even if they don't ...

Aussie farmers call for climate courage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Australia's food security hangs in the balance with climate change exacerbating extreme drought, flooding and other impacts which harm the country's ability to sustain food production, but climate change also presents opportunities for investment in ...

Global food systems at risk: Barclays

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... positive progress on hunger or food insecurity are being reversed." "Whenever we think about food insecurity or food security from an investors point of view, it's from an opportunity perspective, because investors can view the future of food from a ...

Minderoo Foundation, Illumina launch ocean biodiversity DNA project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... "overfishing, habitat degradation and plastic pollution." Protecting marine biodiversity will impact on food sources, food security and help to manage the effects of climate change. The foundation said that in 2017-2018, Australia's marine industries ...

Stewart Investors identifies progress to net zero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... only sources of sustained future return but also highly interconnected, with Berrutti noting the intersection about food security, pollution and climate risk and biodiversity, or circular economy and impacts of reducing waste and increasing recycling ...

Decarbonisation a key megatrend in private markets: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... inclusion can potentially tap new sources of alpha across private asset classes." BlackRock highlighted investments in food security via temperature-controlled supply chain and logistics, innovative technologies dedicated to women's health challenges ...

DWS to use advisory board to accelerate ESG activity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... previously executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust and has expertise in the field of biodiversity and food security. She has also served as member of parliament in Norway and held three ministerial positions. Also on the board is Ioannis ...

DWS Group Appoints ESG Advisory Board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... previously executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust and has expertise in the field of biodiversity and food security. She has also served as member of parliament in Norway and held three ministerial positions. Also on the board is Ioannis ...

Climate change and public health cannot be viewed in isolation: UNGCNA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... impact on health of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, climate change has the potential to impact Australia's food security through crop damage, the report said. Further threats to public health lie with the risk of increased rates of infectious ...
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