Snehal Shah

Transport and energy systems require the most investment for us to reach net zero globally by 2050, a study by the Climate Policy Initiative and Allen & Overy has found.

Private impact credit strategies in emerging markets are ‘resilient, uncorrelated to the broader market’, amid the fundraising squeeze, Blue Earth head of credit Amy Wang says.

While the climate strategy sits within KKR’s infrastructure vertical, it plans to scale new solutions with growth investments as well as real assets.

Some data requests seem immaterial or are too resource-intensive for fund managers to collect.

ESG is ‘part of diligence for almost every fund’, and GP diversity almost always comes up in LP discussions, the placement agent says.

EDCI participation, sustainability skills and portfolio-level value creation plans are top-of-mind for asset owners and investment consultants at PEI’s Responsible Investment Forum in San Francisco.

Investors and fund managers are wary of the difficulty in collecting Scope 3 emissions data and its unreliability.

With so many ESG data requests from LPs, one private equity firm is distinguishing between requirements and 'nice-to-haves' – and a portfolio-wide net-zero target falls into the latter camp, a head of ESG says.

Being a member leads to more data requests from investors, one ESG professional says.

The firm will invest growth capital in companies supporting emissions avoidance in agriculture and emissions sequestration via natural assets.