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Scope 3 emissions disclosure requirements – which would have involved private companies in the supply chain of public companies – have been left off the rule. But it could still affect private fund managers' exit plans and debt investments.

Asset manager Gresham House has launched a $380m fund that will create habitat banks that generate biodiversity net gain units, which will be sold to real estate developers.

Impact investing, especially in emerging markets, is a new frontier for most investors; secondaries transactions will ease them in.

The initiative's applicability to both GP and portfolio companies means it is emerging as a 'gold standard' in private markets.

The full year data for 2023 was dire, but early signals suggest this year's will be signficantly better.

The ESG Data Convergence Initiative has now gathered 62,000 data points in a standardised format. Vinay Shandal and Ben Morley, partners at Boston Consulting Group, describe three takeaways from their conversations with private equity GPs about the results.

While biodiversity is important, overstretched ESG teams at private equity firms need to be allowed to focus on portfolio-level decarbonisation work.

Our inaugural list of 50 influencers in sustainable private markets reveals some common traits among those shaping the future.

Europe has the entrepreneurs and the private capital; now it needs more favourable public policy, writes Clare Murray of Blume Equity.

In acquiring Actis, the US PE firm is doing more than gaining infrastructure exposure; it is betting on sustainability and emerging markets.