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Private equity investors made progress on ESG data gathering and reporting in 2022. Regulation will be a significant talking point in 2023, says HarvourVests ESG leader Natasha Buckley.

The infrastucture firm has a number of climate initiatives on its plate for the year ahead, says head of sustainability Sandrine Lalmant.

A gender-lens approach can boost business performance and enhance women’s economic empowerment in Africa, says Anne-Marie Lévesque of development finance institution FinDev Canada.

Technology can give the private markets industry the leg up it needs to compete with listed equity markets in ESG data collection and accurate benchmarking, writes Hamilton Lane's Paul Yett.

Measures in the US to incentivise investment in the energy transition will benefit the clean tech industry, the US economy and the average American, writes Joe Blair of Bay Bridge Ventures.

The scarcity of quality greenhouse gas emissions data means a lot of investors are 'flying blind', writes Rhyadd Keaney-Watkins, head of ESG for Arjun Infrastructure Partners. Change, however, is coming.

Tough questions about ESG should be welcomed; the answers should be evident in the data, write Clare Murray of Blume Equity and ESG specialist Drake Hicks.

Success for emerging and diverse manager programmes involves more than just writing cheques, writes Meketa Investment Group managing principal Judy Chambers.

A rapidly changing ESG landscape faces market participants, says ELFA’s Sabrina Fox.

ESG minded investors now expect managers and their portfolio companies to conduct their tax affairs in a sustainable manner, writes Elena Rowlands of law firm Travers Smith.