{"id":732015,"date":"2026-06-12T14:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/732015\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:35:16","slug":"australian-investor-group-to-target-big-four-banks-over-deforestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/732015\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian investor group to target &#8216;Big Four&#8217; banks over deforestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"403\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2152362328-716x403.jpg\"   alt=\"The video showcases an animation of a realistic map of Australia set against a brown vintage paper background. It utilizes a zooming effect, allowing viewers to closely examine the continent, revealing its geographical features and details.\" title=\"A realistic map of Australia. Brown vintage background\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Australian Ethical Investment is <a href=\"https:\/\/collaborate.unpri.org\/group\/40771\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">seeking domestic and international investors<\/a> to join an engagement with four Australian banks on deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>The banks set to be the subject of dialogue are Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank (NAB), ANZ and Westpac.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Graham, the asset manager\u2019s impact and ethics analyst, told Responsible Investor: \u201cThe scale of deforestation in Australia is on par with the palm oil sector in Indonesia but receives far less attention from global and domestic financial institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Ethical Investment is seeking domestic and international investors to join an engagement with four Australian banks on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,7105,11808,62735,2270,44,354243],"class_list":["post-732015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-banks","tag-biodiversity","tag-deforestation","tag-nature","tag-news","tag-voting-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}