Jordan Stutts

An investment group launched by oil and gas companies is investing a $1bn fund to accelerate the implementation of climate change solutions.

The US pension’s lead PE director told conference delegates that unstandardised reporting holds back ESG as a tool for risk assessment.

The firm will lead the new branch of a global GP network exchanging ideas and best practices about how to account for climate change.

LeapFrog, which received an investment from Temasek last year, has been busy building its investor relations bench.

ERM is acquiring Melbourne-based Point Advisory, a financial advisory focused on climate change and sustainability.

The LP’s retiring CIO said the committees will be created by next quarter ‘so that the work continues’ on ESG initiatives.

The private markets firm recently committed to the ESG Data Convergence Project which seeks to standardise sustainability reporting.

The new venture capital firm is targeting $125m to invest in promising proptech start-ups.

The Apollo Opportunity Foundation will partner with organisations focused on causes championed by employees of the private markets firm.

The private markets firm has set new sustainability commitments alongside a strategy, led by Olivia Wassenaar, to invest in the ‘decarbonisation of industry’.