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Finance "misunderstanding" risk of nature loss

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Financiers do not assess and disclose deforestation and biodiversity loss in Australia and may not even be aware of the risk when funding Australia's primary industries. New research from EY commissioned by The Wilderness Society found that deforestation ...

Aussie farmers call for climate courage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... science to combat climate change and support rural communities. She said that climate change is "causing the death of biodiversity" - but that now is not too late to act to transition away from fossil fuels. A farmer, scientist, and public figure from ...

Data centre operator refinances multi-billion-dollar sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... SLL into social impact initiatives aligned to its four focus areas including Equal Digital Access, STEM Education, Biodiversity and Conservation, and Innovation and Research and Development. The company first introduced its plans to invest margin incentives ...

La Trobe Uni issues $175m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... recycling facilities with the aim of fostering a circular economy. It will also go towards terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity conservation including initiatives at the Nangak Tamboree Wildlife Sanctuary Revegetation and revegetation of the Darebin ...

Asset managers failing on 2050 goals: InfluenceMap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... June finding the world's largest 77 asset managers lack ambition on net zero, deforestation, and other climate and biodiversity issues. With $72 trillion in cumulative assets under management, InfluenceMap found the firms assessed do not demonstrate ...

NGS tracking ahead on 2030 net zero pledge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... carbon, such as natural capital, and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS). "We're looking at natural capital - biodiversity and the credits they can contain - through forestry and those assets, they're the primary areas that we are working on ...

APRA strengthens super fund ESG responsibilities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... largely dependent on longer term market-wide performance, which in turn is impacted by climate change and increasingly biodiversity loss and rising inequality. APRA's updated guidance should provide greater confidence to funds looking to mitigate ...

University secures $450 million sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... to aligned its new loan to social and environmental KPIs including reducing Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, improving biodiversity, Indigenous cultural safety and awareness of UN Sustainability Development Goals, gender equality, and widening participation ...

Offshore windfarms offer co-benefits

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Investing in offshore wind farms offer biodiversity and economic co-benefits, according to new research led by Aberystwyth University academics. Research published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science found that offshore wind farms in the UK inadvertently ...

Australia releases "first ever" statement on climate in ag

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... We know some of the big overseas markets which buy our farm produce are pushing us to do better on emissions and biodiversity, and this is a reality which must be met head-on," Hosking said. "Farmers are leading on emissions reduction and it's time ...