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Tracking nature: finance lags on biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... 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 for peatlands and rivers. ...

New Forests invests in Thai peat forest

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... forest area and spans three provinces in Southern Thailand. More than 60,000 local people depend on fishing and other non-timber forest products from the peat swamp forests for sustenance and livelihoods, New Forests noted. "Two thirds of the KKL peat ...

Forestry fund falls short of target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... and conservation nature-based assets in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia for end markets such as timber, rubber and carbon." "Southeast Asia's share of timber production is expected to rise from 39% in 2013 to 62% of world plantation ...

Growing scope for investing in natural capital: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... strategies feature more active management than in the core/core-plus segment, as well as exposure to other areas of the timber production and supply chain. bfinance also sees a growing trend in favour of carbon credit creation in forestry. Among agriculture ...

Forestry fund raises $450m for natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... which have longer rotation periods and higher carbon abatement potential. The fund will also invest in agriculture and timber processing opportunities. No native forests will be harvested, and all forestry operations will need to ensure compliance with ...

New Forests to sell NZ assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... laboratory, and port access via a freehold facility at Long Reach, Tasmania. In July, New Forests bought a 7,600 hectare timber asset in the Mount Shasta region of California. It is the first asset acquired by New Forests' Forest Climate Solutions ...

UniSuper, pension funds buy forestry fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... also supports the global transition towards decarbonisation through carbon storage as well as substitution to sustainable timber material. We look forward to working closely with New Forests and our co-investors as we further develop this asset." A New ...

Building sustainable supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... door-opening component of emissions, we can start to expand out to other things." Other areas that Brambles focuses on is timber and making sure they purchase sustainably certified timber with an eye to both environmental and human rights data. This ...

New Forests adds California forestry assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Global nature-based real assets manager New Forests has bought a 7,600 hectare timber asset in the Mount Shasta region of California. It is the first asset acquired by New Forests' Forest Climate Solutions Fund (FCS) which focuses on combining returns ...

Leading Harvest launches Australian ag sustainability standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
Leading Harvest is implementing a sustainability assurance program for the Australian agriculture sector after a successful pilot backed by Warakirri Asset Management among others. Leading Harvest is a non-profit that has developed the Farmland Management ...
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