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Major indices provide ESG clarity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... New data has been released by major indices, hoping to help investors and the businesses they invest in to navigate biodiversity and sustainable finance requirements. The firms, S&P Dow Jones and Deutsche Bank, recently responded to allegations they ...

China relaunches offsets market, releases biodiversity framework

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Certified Emission Reductions (CCER) scheme has restarted after a six-year pause, as the country releases its National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan. Suspended in 2017 due to low trading volume and lack of standardisation in carbon audits, the ...

Report reveals progress on green finance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... regulations and central banking activities have an outsized focus on climate, and neglect broader impacts such as biodiversity loss and its effects on communities who rely on nature for their livelihoods. While progress has been made by central banks ...

Top 10 most-read articles of 2023

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... shareholder took the bank to court over allegations it failed to manage the material risks of climate change and biodiversity loss. #2: Government to fund sustainable finance taxonomy development April: Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced the government ...

ESG in 2024: key trends and legislative changes for the year ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
If 2023 marked a broadened focus on climate adaptation, transition, biodiversity and modern slavery, 2024 is poised to be the year of ESG integration, consolidated reporting, legislative compliance, supply chain due diligence, and managing artificial ...

Finance realignment urged as nature-positive trails 30:1

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Environment Programme (UNEP) compared finance flows to nature-based solutions with the finance needed to tackle climate, biodiversity and nature degradation. The State of Finance for Nature report found nature-based solutions financing has increased ...

COP28: Australia commits $150m to Pacific resilience

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... Alliance. The Bezos Earth Fund also announced US$57 million in grants for initiatives that address the climate and biodiversity impacts of the global food system. The climate summit saw a major moment for food system transformation. Australia signed ...

Here's what happened at COP28 so far

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... consideration for COP28 The shape and scope of a global fund on loss and damage, the integration of climate into biodiversity, and how human rights and the just transition figure into government, business and investor commitments are all topics of interest ...

Australia joins COP28 gender and just transition partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... will be 70% climate adaptation (food, water and health security, infrastructure and public works, ecosystems, and biodiversity resilience) and 30% climate mitigation (transport and industry electrification, mass transportation and green buildings). "In ...

COP28: Climate finance, carbon markets take centre stage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... South America, and the Pacific introduced landmark investment plans to implement the Paris Agreement and new Global Biodiversity Framework, committing US$2.59 billion from public and private sources, and emphasising the development goals of local and ...
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