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Flawed carbon credits add to business risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... planting trees; they include land management changes that promote regrowth of native vegetation, largely by reducing livestock numbers. But this form of carbon offset may not mitigate the actual amount of carbon they claim to represent. This raises questions ...

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

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... that banks that are invested in agriculture, property, resources, and energy, are most exposed to nature-related risk. Livestock agriculture, with $47 billion of outstanding loans from leading Australian banks, is the subsector responsible for the biggest ...

Record number of soil ACCUs issued for Queensland graziers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... atmosphere, but their beef is carbon negative (climate positive) to the tune of 6.6t [tonnes] of CO2 buried for every tonne of livestock carried, after accounting for all emissions. "The land management techniques used by Carly and Grant have added 47,000 ...

Investors in hot seat over impact of 50-degree day

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... about supply chains. The farmer is telling the story about the impact on fresh fruit and veg and how heat is impacting livestock. The health worker is demonstrating what the science tells us - every degree of temperature increase has an increase in mortality ...

Australia releases "first ever" statement on climate in ag

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... data-based Traceability systems. Emissions reduction will be supported through methane-reducing feed alternatives for grazing livestock, cropping and horticulture emissions, on-farm energy opportunities, carbon farming and landscape management. The government ...

Aussie start up secures Japanese investor for seaweed production

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... a Japanese investor to ramp up production of a native seaweed species that reduces the methane produced by ruminant livestock by up to 98% when added to feed. Methane from livestock is one of largest sources of GHG emissions in Australia, and last year ...

Fund Manager round up: Maple-Brown Abbot, Brookfield, Cultiv8

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... with Fidante. The investments include a series A investment in FutureFeed, an Australian company behind an innovative livestock feed supplement derived from a red seaweed species, Asparagopsis. "Used in small quantities, the feed additive can reduce ...

Cultiv8, Fidante launch agriculture, food tech fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... Successful SparkLabs Cultiv8 investments have included ventures that explore the use of seaweed to significantly reduce livestock methane emissions, the replacement of anti-biotics in livestock production, reducing chemical residues in farming, and high ...

CEFC, Grok Ventures back solar tech firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... biodiversity improvements, and a focus on improving soil carbon across rangeland areas of Australia. "Co-locating sustainable livestock production with high integrity carbon projects creates operational and environmental synergies," said CEFC investment ...

CEFC backs soil health technology platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... investments in the agricultural sector for the Innovation Fund include bio-sequestration company Loam Bio and digital livestock platform AgriWebb.
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