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Climate investing declines amid Trump's anti-clean energy regime
Although investors are withdrawing from climate investing due to uncertainty from the aggressive approach by the US President Donald Trump in his pro-fossil fuels and anti-energy agenda, it opens up opportunities further afield.
Native vegetation offsets in Victoria and/or the Federal offset system aim to manage and protect native vegetation and biodiversity in response to planning approvals. If these systems were rolled our beyond the planning approval obligations to a voluntary market, perhaps Business could actively (and somewhat transparently) manage and protect biodiversity in the regions in which they work. I do not advocate that it is a perfect system, but it is an existing system that puts a market value on biodiversity....which in my opinion is a positive step.