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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.

The world is adapting to mitigate climate change, but the politicisation of climate science, slow-moving bureaucracy and anachronistic policy are causing the US to lag behind.

Vortex Energy IV, which is targeting $700m, is looking to invest across the energy transition spectrum in Europe, North America and Australia.

AXA IM Alts, one of the world's largest managers of private markets impact capital, has bought ClimateSeed from BNP Paribas.

The net zero asset managers initiative, which sees asset managers commit to carbon neutrality across their portfolios by 2050, has 41 new signatories. There was a 'marked uptick' in Asian managers joining, says the initiative.

Dimension Renewable Energy is building small-scale solar projects in lower-to-mid-market communities lacking access to clean energy generation.

The venture community’s use of ‘pattern matching’ past successes to find the next big opportunity has excluded many female- and diverse-owned start-ups from raising capital.

The asset management firm thinks the SEC should apply ESG disclosure rules to private markets as well as public. ILPA disagrees.

Investors are looking for other sustainable infrastructure opportunities such as energy efficiency and distributor generation, Ronak Patel, partner at placement agent Campbell Lutyens, told Infrastructure Investor’s Global Investor Offsite conference this week.