September
Heavy emitters targeted by $300m carbon credit fund
A new fund from UK-based Cibus will provide returns in the form of carbon credits, rather than dollars, focusing on gas producers and other big polluters.
Forestry deal boosts green fuel start-up’s $1.8b project
HAMR Energy plans to develop a $1.8 billion facility at Portland on Victoria’s west coast to power aviation and shipping.
Sorry, Ken Henry. Timber workers, not Koalas, are endangered
Seemingly affable and pragmatic Chris Minns joins a line of Labor premiers who’ve sold out honest workers in a sustainable industry for green votes.
June
The family ‘trauma’ behind Ken Henry’s views on native forest logging
The practice is a “dead parrot” costing the NSW budget $30 million a year. The former Treasury boss says it’s time to transition out.
Future Fund-backed OneFortyOne in mega forestry deal
The biggest forestry deal by an Australian-owned firm in a decade comes as the country prepares for the next home-building boom.
January
Dutton was not being divisive by opposing the Voice
Readers’ letters on the opposition leader, campaign finance laws, Liberal Party preselections, climate change, Georgina Downer, Tasmanian forests, and smartphones.
‘Swayed by extremist groups’: Abetz slams bank in ESG stoush
A dispute over ESG requirements has emerged in Tasmania after a forestry company claimed its financing from Bendigo and Adelaide Bank was knocked back on environmental concerns.
June 2024
Why we should embrace tall-tree tourism
Only 34 per cent of the world’s surviving forests are old-growth ones, and many are under threat. If California’s Redwood National Park is anything to go by, there is hope, however.
April 2024
Why Mike Cannon-Brookes invested in this mushroom
A tree-planting boom is required to get the world to net-zero, and the billionaire is betting mushrooms and fungi will be a crucial enabler
January 2024
Timber workers remain in the dark on first day of WA forestry ban
The West Australian native forestry industry is bracing for more job losses as a historic decision by the state to ban commercial logging takes hold.
December 2023
WA’s historic timber towns brace to be dead wood
Family-owned sawmills in Western Australia’s south-west were promised a future ahead of a state ban on native forestry, but say the transition has been bungled.
Green Bank, global investors pile into $450m forestry and ag raising
The CEFC has put $75m into a new forestry and landscape fund that intends to generate a chunk of its return from carbon and renewable energy.
October 2023
UniSuper buys former Gunns timber plantation in Tasmania
The superannuation giant, along with two European pension funds, will consider building wind farms after buying the biggest freehold land asset in the state.
September 2023
Meet the Aussies aiming to turn forests into a magic money tree
Forestry is a $156 billion asset class, and net-zero is turning it into a growth story. But the industry fears it will miss out unless it helps write the climate rule book.
August 2023
Labor’s green lobby demands Productivity Commission forestry review
Concerns about declining plantations, species extinctions and a need to sequester carbon have rendered a multi-decade forest system outdated, says Labor’s green lobby.
Careful harvest of native forests is key to carbon capture
There is no rational reason to shut down native forestry – and a big bonus in carbon sequestration.
February 2023
Decarbonisation lures investors to sustainable forestry
The long-term investment fundamentals of forestry should ensure the asset class continues to shine in 2023, despite economic headwinds.
October 2022
Forests turn a new leaf to emerge as a growth asset
Institutional investors are increasingly tipping money into timberland assets, either through pine plantations or environmental planting.
September 2022
$8.7b forestry manager turns to agriculture
Agriculture provides greater scope for growth than forestry, says New Forest Australia and New Zealand managing director Mark Rogers.
May 2022
Timberrrrrrrrrrr! Global Forests ready to unload NSW assets, Resolute hired
The forestry investment giant appears poised to harvest another big Australian asset, this time calling in advisers to sell some of its holdings in New South Wales.