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Virescent Ventures – 70% owned by CEFC executives – now manages CEFC’s A$200m venture allocation and is fundraising another A$200m.

Investors are right to reject the EU's misguided labelling, which casts the shadow of ‘greenwashing’ on a complex, much-needed discussion.

Verdane has backed an electric vehicle charging services company that ‘is not strategic for the really large corporate actors in this space to own’.

The roughly €200m committed by the three financial investors, alongside Technip Energies, will be used to construct e-fuel production facilities in Europe and North America.

The private debt manager will provide quarterly reporting to investors on the carbon footprints of the portfolio as a whole and on a name-by-name basis, it has said.

Canada’s largest pension has set a net zero by 2050 target – and will support its assets to decarbonise and rely on a whole-economy transition to carbon neutrality to achieve this, CPP’s chief sustainability officer Deborah Orida tells New Private Markets.

Circularity Capital, a fledgling circular economy fund backed by AXA IM Alts, Christian Super and BNP Paribas Fortis, is investing its first growth fund while raising its second.

Sphera, which was acquired by a Blackstone fund last year, will help the firm better assess Scope 1 and 2 emissions from its portfolio.

Sampension’s head of ESG, Jacob Ehlerth Jørgensen, says ‘managers [of unlisted funds] must ensure their investments contribute to the green transition’.

The global transition fund, soon to close at $15bn, will be “just the first fund in what we believe will be a very attractive growth avenue,” Brookfield managing director Natalie Adomait said.