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The trio have teamed up to accelerate and scale regenerative farming practices with a €1bn impact fund that will invest in the enabling process.

The case for investing in climate-focused vehicles is simple; avoiding disappointment will be complicated.

'About six or seven leading LPs' have joined an effort to create an ESG due diligence questionnaire tailored to the venture capital industry.

The firm has so far committed around $2bn of the $7.3bn fund to deals and has been pleased 'by the scale and persistency of opportunity'.

The fund has made three investments so far: a gym chain, a residential property development and a financial technology business. It 'aspires to change the way institutional capital flows to communities of colour,' says alternatives chief Edwin Conway.

A core set of KPIs, selected by associations NCREIF and PREA from hundreds of metrics, is intended to address the ‘Wild Wild West’ of ESG reporting.

Every year affiliate publication Private Equity International scours the industry to identify 40 rising stars; here are eight who are set to shape sustainable and impact investment in private markets.

The climate-orientated growth investor prefers businesses that are already scaling, like distributed solar company Sun King, managing director Eli Aheto tells New Private Markets.

An ESG-focused US SEC could be good news for more than just compliance consultants.

The firm's $100bn climate investment plans are 'a drop in the bucket', says co-president Scott Kleinman.