measurement & reporting

Element Markets, a portfolio company TPG acquired last year, has combined with Bluesource to offer voluntary and mandatory carbon offsets in 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.

The factsheets contain sector-specific guidance for the most important areas of ESG disclosure for the autos, building materials and services sectors.

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

The Copenhagen-headquartered manager has set sights on winning the race to net zero. CEO Claus Mathisen tells PERE why.

Some absentees from the ESG Data Convergence Project are struggling to get comfortable with how their portfolio company data will be used.

The industry still has a long way to go on decarbonisation, but the creation and adoption of private equity-specific science-based targets could really move the needle.

More pledges are likely to come after Carlyle became the first high profile US private markets firms to formalise an emissions plan aligned with a net-zero target.

The former city treasurer who institutionalised ESG strategies in Chicago will lead public-private partnerships at Blackstone’s infrastructure group.

The CalPERS-Carlyle-led effort to standardize ESG data reporting now counts $8.7trn of managed assets represented by its participants.