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Sandon Capital to buy carbon farms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... projects are registered with the Clean Energy Regulator, so all carbon projects held by CCI generate Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs). CCI, an unlisted public company, will sell all issued and outstanding ordinary share holdings to Sandon Capital ...

Three innovations to fix carbon market

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... internationally, and its contribution to net zero targets. It also assesses the importance of current reforms to carbon credit integrity and large emitters' responsibilities. It was produced in collaboration with experts including Climateworks, S&P ...

Flawed carbon credits add to business risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... and leaving farmers vulnerable. "Last year we welcomed the recommendation of the Chubb Review that the Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU) system be overhauled. We also consider that the Chubb Review itself didn't go far enough in its findings ...

Greenwashing remains a priority: ASIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
The call to stamp greenwashing at the root may have the potentially unintended consequence of stopping big companies from doing a better job at tackling environmental risks, including climate change. It was a packed room last Thursday at the annual ...

Carbon trading roundup: Verra, REDD+, BetaCarbon

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... infrastructure for CCS technology deployment. The consultation will run until April 15, 2024. Human Rights Watch reports carbon credit scheme Cambodia's largest carbon offsetting project has been accused of human rights abuse, with carbon consultancy ...

New Forests invests in Thai peat forest

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
New Forests has invested in a 70,000-hectare block of peat swamp forest in Thailand as the first investment in its Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2). New Forest's investment in the Kuan Kreng Landscape (KKL) in Thailand holds the country's ...

Forestry fund falls short of target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
A global natural capital manager raised US$130 million towards its US$300 million target for its Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2). Investors in TAFF2 include Mitsui, Nomura, Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Australian government, David and Lucile ...

China relaunches offsets market, releases biodiversity framework

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
China's 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 ...

Carbon markets heat up

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... carbon project developer CO2 Australia, at $0.00091 per share. The developer has not yet generated any Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU), but has registered nine projects across Queensland and New South Wales with the Clean Energy Regulator. Avatar ...

Growing scope for investing in natural capital: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... "several of these funds offer very low or no recurring yields, with 16% of funds' returns almost entirely driven by carbon credit production and the rest seeing commercial returns supplemented with carbon credit revenue." In timberland, fund offerings ...
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