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Only 2% of 533 funds examined in a StepStone Group report aim to have net-zero emissions.

Dominica Adam will focus on sustainability initiatives in the firm’s €4.6bn European portfolio.

The mandate for Deborah Orida, CPP’s global head of real assets, also sees pension investor’s sustainable investing group become part of her department.

Just Climate plans to raise ‘flexible and long dated capital’ for several sector-focused funds.

A report has criticised the industry over its past investment in oil, gas and coal. We contacted the 10 private equity firms cited and their responses were mixed.

‘We would expect to see a dedicated fund... in due course,’ says co-president Scott Kleinman.

BlackRock’s Lucy Dale shares five factors in how the asset manager determines ESG risks in its loan underwriting process for infrastructure assets.

Michael Izzo, Hines’s first carbon strategy VP, will help the firm ‘create carbon standards’ for real estate.

Emerging tech – which could be seen as ripe for a VC portfolio – will instead be considered part of the firm's infra mix, says Skandia Mutual’s Hans Fredrik Forssman.

The Canadian Pension has entered the voluntary market at an important stage in its development and wants to invest in decades long carbon-capture projects.