The UK-based investment heavyweight sees carbon capture as the best way to decarbonise industrial companies.
Limited partners – particularly in Europe – are asking for 'opt-out' options in side letters, finds placement agent Capstone in its survey of investors.
Generate Capital is structured as a corporate rather than a fund, but the investors behind the capital raise include many significant private markets players.
The private equity firm is investing in companies 'uniquely positioned' to grow quickly by providing climate change solutions.
Private debt manager Oaktree’s newly announced head of ESG talks to New Private Markets about the firm’s strategy-specific ESG policies, the challenge of quantifying non-financial factors and its limited influence as a private debt investor.
PG Impact Investments, the impact investment firm founded by Partners Group’s founders, is rebranding to Blue Earth Capital and seeks to ‘reach operational independence from Partners Group’.
Partner Bennett Cohen of the San Francisco energy and industry investor, says the firm has adopted an ESG approach to its investing practice.
New VC manager Eka Ventures has raised £68m for its debut fund for UK start-ups in sustainability, healthcare and the inclusive economy. Eka’s founders say this is the ‘largest impact-driven early stage venture capital fund focused on the UK’.
Private debt managers have made considerable progress but, particularly in North America, there is more to be done.
The main investor concern was that companies may be able to reap the benefits of 'greenium'-style interest savings while avoiding meeting, or even testing, key performance indicators.