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Warakirri adds kiwifruit orchards to farmland fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... pistachios. Further allocations include up to 35% to both wine and table grape vineyards, up to 30% to row crops, and up to 20% to water entitlements.

Green moves: Alphinity, Australian Ethical, Climate Change Authority

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... then Alluvium Group - an employee-owned consulting practice founded in 2006 to provide advice on threats to Australia's water resources, rivers and catchments. Courville brings over two decades of experience in sustainability, natural capital, and systems ...

Mormon Church's Alkira Farms acquires NSW assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... The New South Wales-based Kentucky property encompasses 6020 hectares and 48 megalitres' worth of stock and domestic water entitlements. This is located within the Wirrinya cropping district 30 kilometres southwest of Forbes off the Newell Highway. ...

Green moves: CSIRO, Ethinvest, Social Enterprise Australia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... welcomed Vanessa (Fernandes) Sullivan to the board. Sullivan has over 20 years of experience working across the energy, water and sustainability sectors, and more recently in hydrogen industry development. She is a non-executive director at AGL and chair ...

Impact investing needs instos to scale: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... but that capital sometimes is not moving where we would like it to go. I compare it to an iceberg. It's still full of water, but it's not flowing," he said. The role of the government is to "talk to the iceberg and to make sure that it turns ...

Renewable infra project contractor breaches workplace laws

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... ruled. Elecnor is a manager of essential services and renewable energy projects across electricity, telecommunications, gas, water and more. The court found Elecnor unlawfully refused entry to officials from the Communications, Electrical, Electronic ...

UniSuper waters down 'volatile' environmental option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
UniSuper is refreshing the investment strategy for its Global Environmental Opportunities (GEO) option, effective March 28. The major change will be lowering the threshold for companies to qualify for inclusion in the strategy. "Due to the concentrated ...

BlackRock ditches diversity targets, drops hiring mandates

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
BlackRock has scrapped its "aspirational workforce representation goals" and will no longer require hiring managers to interview a diverse slate of candidates, according to an internal memo from chief executive Larry Fink and senior executives. The ...

First Sentier terminates ESG infra fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... from sustainable development as designed by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including renewables companies, water utilities, and toll roads. This involved looking at the capital expenditure of each company and mapping it against the SDGs ...

Australia's ecosystems get a dollar value

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... represents the estimated amount farmers saved by feeding their livestock things like grass growing on their land. Meanwhile, water provisioning - the supply of naturally occurring surface water taken from ecosystems - was valued at $1.4 billion. Khoo ...
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