Fundraising

Tikehau is set to close its debut impact lending fund and is marketing regenerative agriculture, real estate decarbonisation and North America-focused decarbonisation funds – having set a climate AUM target of €5bn by 2025.

African Infrastructure Investment Fund 4 will invest in 'high-impact infrastructure projects across the continent'.

USV 2022 Climate is targeting $200m for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Airbus has a ‘commitment to the scaling up of a global hydrogen economy’ and this investment ‘offers complimentary access to direct partnerships shaping the new energy ecosystems’.

Strategic investors 'understand the correlation between an unyielding commitment to climate innovation and an ample balance sheet,' says Fifth Wall partner Greg Smithies.

The pioneering environmental investor has raised more than twice as much for its latest private equity fund as it did for Fund III. It could have raised a lot more, says founder Nino Tronchetti Provera.

Christian Sinding, chief executive of EQT, says raising a dedicated energy transition fund would be ‘just too complicated’ because the firm takes a total-portfolio approach to decarbonisation.

Prominent individuals are invested in Systemiq Capital's second fund.

Aristata Capital looks to provide 20% return by funding litigation on ESG issues including environmental disasters and gender pay gap claims.

The Paris-based firm has launched an Article 8 leveraged buyout fund targeting €1.3bn ‘to support SMEs on decarbonisation’.