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Warburg Pincus, Partners Group, GIC and Swiss Re have also invested in carbon removal technology this year.
CalPERS, CalSTRS, MassPRIM, Cambridge Associates and PGIM are among the 48 other signatories.
Impact firm Developing World Markets has used GIIN’s financial inclusion benchmarks to measure the impact performance of its portfolio.
The Asia Impact First Fund follows Heritas Venture Fund II and Growth Fund III.
A dearth of emissions data is jeopardising UK pension funds’ TCFD compliance, so investment consultancy Hymans Robertson encourages clients to report on lack of data quality in TCFD reports.
Impact firm Earth Capital is merging four biomass energy generation assets across the UK, having found these sites cannot scale or generate profit on their own.
Debt fund manager North Wall is considering specialising in ESG litigation for its third legal assets fund after agreeing to lend £100m to law firm PGMBM from its second litigation fund.
LGT offshoot Lightrock – which raised $900m for its debut impact fund from LGT and its private banking clients – has secured €75m from Thailand’s Gulf Energy as it turns to external LPs for the fundraise.
The SEC has proposed the abolition of ‘preferential transparency’ enshrined in side letters, which are often a vehicle for ESG requests.
The commission has proposed a rule restricting side letters that grant certain LPs ‘preferential information and rights’. But for LACERA, side letters are ‘a crucial means for market innovation’.