THE Federal Government has thrown its support behind an international program, which is aiming to create a framework for lenders to assess the nature-related risks and opportunities in the activities they fund – with beef on the early list of industries in its sights.
Earlier this week, the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures released a series of broad recommendations for its developing guidelines.
The Federal Government assisted in the early development of the framework, doing a series of case studies with beef, salmon and cotton being one of the three agricultural…