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Tracking nature: finance lags on biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... tree canopy cover and reverse the decline of pollinator populations - like bees - by 2030. 85% of wetland areas, and 66% of ocean area, has been significantly altered by human actions, according to the UNEP. "Nature is something that has been viewed ...

SIX launches share platform for investors, activists

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
A former co-founder of Future Super has launched Sustainable Investment Exchange (SIX), a share trading platform that combines activism and investing. SIX is co-founded by Adam Verwey, a former co-founder of Future Super, and Sophie Hall, an experienced ...

A rising tide for blue bond investment: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
Although the current market for blue bonds is "nascent", the potential demand for bonds whose use of proceeds fund ocean-friendly and clean water projects could grow rapidly in tandem with the increased investor and corporate focus on biodiversity ...

Deep dive: Blue Finance explained - Lucy Holmes

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 26 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Finance at WWF US Oceans Markets & Finance, joins FS Sustainability senior journalist Rose Mary Petrass. Investing in the ocean, which is often overlooked yet equally as critical as investing in land-based projects such as reforestation, can provide ...

QIC secures US$300m SLL

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
The Queensland Government-owned fund manager has converted a finance facility into a US$300 million sustainability-linked loan (SLL). Lenders are Commonwealth Bank of Australia, ANZ, ING Group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking ...

Finance realignment urged as nature-positive trails 30:1

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... future." Suzy Yoon, acting head of sustainability at investment advisory firm JANA commented: "COP28's Nature, Land Use and Ocean Day saw over $186 million of new financing for nature and climate towards forests, mangroves and the ocean. This funding ...

Preparing for COP28: nature and climate integration

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
As the world gears up for COP28, practitioners are preparing for a significant shift towards the integration of nature and climate in reporting. Evan Center, an expert in environment and climate change with the United Nations Global Compact Network ...

Impact investing as greenwashing antidote: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Building portfolios around metrics such as direct revenue with real world social and/or environmental impact may be a solution to greenwashing, according to T. Rowe Price. Recently, T. Rowe Price global impact equity strategy Hari Balkrishna was in ...

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

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Building on the TCFD's focus on atmospheric emissions, the TNFD approach goes beyond emissions reporting and covers land, ocean, freshwater and atmosphere, facilitating the assessment and reporting of nature-related dependences, impacts, risk and ...

GRESB leader now 100% green loan financed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Frasers Property Group and Scentre Group have ranked among the top real estate firms in the world in the biggest year to date for the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) assessment. This year GRESB Real Estate Assessment participation ...
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