climate solutions

The new fund compliments the Italian firm's green transition PE fund, which closed on €380m last year.

The investable universe of private markets climate solutions products remains tiny compared to public markets, but it packs a punch.

The two firms are set to acquire minority shares in the environmental services business of Canadian waste management business GFL Environmental.

Vireo Electrification Fund I is classified as Article 9 under the EU SFDR, and received backing from the European Investment Fund.

The $70.4bn fund’s investment committee has green-lit a proposed expert group for mitigating climate risk in its private markets-heavy portfolio.

The new strategy could raise close to €5bn. It will deploy capital to help scale up ‘the infra of the future’, Asís Echániz, head of Transition Infrastructure Europe, says.

It is clear that responsible investors want to back homegrown clean tech and solutions that contribute to real-world emissions reductions.

Fund increases rigour of solutions taxonomy as it shares progress update on landmark sustainable investment programme.

Ecore, which turns used tires into rubber surfacing and flooring, has received a minority investment from GA's BeyondNetZero fund.

Preeti Bhattacharji, head of sustainable investing for JPMorgan's US Private Bank and a speaker at the Impact & Transition Investor Summit, discusses trends in the impact investment space.