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New Forests enters Vietnamese timber industry

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... invested in Tavico Group. It is the fourth investment made by the fund, which also recently acquired a stake in Laos-based timber plantation company Burapha Agro-Forestry. Tavico was founded in 2005 as a log trader and sawn timber mill. Today it also ...

Countdown to RIAA conference is on

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025  |  NEWS
The largest gathering of sustainable investment professionals in the Southern Hemisphere is scheduled for next month - and the event organiser, the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), has pulled industry heavyweights to the stage. ...

Green moves: Re-Vi, Aware Super, Insignia Financial

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... in terms of biochar production and carbon removals. Re-Vi said the project will see over 15,000 hectares of fire-damaged timber plantations turned into biochar, a form of charcoal that is highly stable and carbon-rich, with numerous agricultural and ...

Biodiversity loss, climate front of mind for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... 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, water ...

BNPP AM launches Future Forest Fund

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has launched a fund to meet global demand for sustainably managed timberland investments. The fund is classified Article 9 under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and will invest in sustainable ...

Mega asset manager defends OECD complaint

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... 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 June 2024. ...

UK pension giant eyes Australian timber

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Nest is establishing an evergreen timberland fund and has its sights set on opportunities in Australia. The $70 billion workplace pension fund has enlisted Campbell Global, J.P. Morgan Asset Management's timberland investment advisory company, to ...

Podcast: Timber talks - Cultivating natural capital with Sarah Clawson

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
This episode of The Greener Way, we hear from Sarah Clawson, Global Head of Investor Relations at New Forests - an international investment manager of nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies. Join senior journalist and host Rose Mary ...

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 ...
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