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Tracking nature: finance lags on biodiversity

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... for the four highest risk commodities which drive two thirds of tropical deforestation. These commodities include soy, cattle products (beef and leather), timber products (timber and pulp and paper), and palm oil. The new EU law includes further provisions ...

Agriculture funding takes the stage at COP28

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... agro-business. Wollemi aggregates agro-climate and life-cycle emissions data for agricultural production sub-sectors, such as beef cattle, using a combination of public data and both public or open source data, which is also supplemented with high resolution ...

Record number of soil ACCUs issued for Queensland graziers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... soils over the five-year reporting period. The pair came up against seasonal challenges of dry weather and fluctuating cattle prices but implemented a series of land management practices and activities to improve soil conditions. This included subdivision ...

Podcast: Alex Banks - she speaks for the trees

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... funding is going into the forest assets, mining, and farming while the majority of European financing is going into the cattle and sheep sectors. Stepping into the role of the Lorax, Alex talks about the urgent need for investors and financiers to assess ...

Finance "misunderstanding" risk of nature loss

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... funding is going into the forest assets, mining, and farming while the majority of European financing is going into the cattle and sheep sectors. The research, launched this week at the Investor's Group on Climate Change (IGCC) Summit in Sydney ...

Tasmanian cattle producer new chair of Farmers for Climate Action

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Tasmanian cattle producer Brett Hall has been named new chair of Farmers for Climate Action (FCA) following the resignation of Charlie Prell. Hall, a long-time board member, will play a key role in selecting the new CEO at the non-profit which represents ...

Aussie start up secures Japanese investor for seaweed production

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... globally. We want to produce a high quality, consistent product targeting large-scale and niche producers. "There are 1 billion cattle in the world, and to have a cornerstone investor and strategic partner in Nissui puts us at the forefront of servicing ...

Carbon offsets essential to net zero ambitions: Grattan Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... paying me to put the CO2 underground and paying a farmer to change the farming habits to contain the methane emissions from cattle. "The problem with some CCS technologies is that they don't capture 100% of the CO2. What happens to the 5-10% they can't ...

Plant agriculture sector in net zero policies: Grattan Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... agriculture sector was responsible for 15 per cent of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, emitting 76.5 million tonnes. Cattle and sheep account for 75 per cent of emissions in the sector. If herd numbers recover from recent years of drought ...

Assessing the financial, ESG benefits of agricultural investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Company (NAPCo), which consists of six million hectares of land across Queensland and the Northern Territory and 200,000 cattle. The diversity of the land helps offset the risks and impacts of drought, Murphy said. "The difference in climactic zone ...
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