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ICI, a private equity-focused decarbonisation group hosted by the UN’s PRI, urges PE firms to set net-zero targets.

With natural assets still waiting to be correctly valued, ‘a huge arbitrage opportunity will exist for the investors that are willing to lean in’, StepStone says.

The monitoring of ESG debt KPIs for ESG-linked debt facilities is more prevalent among those GPs looking to raise bigger funds, according to Investec's GP Trends 2022 report.

This 'should come as no surprise' given that privately held companies are newer to making progress on ESG, says a Boston Consulting Group report.

The Global Impact Investing Network – which is taking over from the IFC in hosting the Operating Principles for Impact Management – estimated the market at $715bn in 2020.

Managers have responded positively to the D&I challenge over the last year, according to LGT Capital’s latest report.

Areas like steel, cement, agriculture and others are still being starved of the capital needed to decarbonise.

The universe of impact real estate funds is growing, says bfinance, but allocators must be mindful of a very specific set of risks.

Tough questions about ESG should be welcomed; the answers should be evident in the data, write Clare Murray of Blume Equity and ESG specialist Drake Hicks.

Many sovereign wealth funds that had previously been resistant have 'come on board', wrote the authors of Invesco's 2022 Global Sovereign Asset Management Study.