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Fund launch marks a new strategy for impact specialist Bridges, atypically investing outside the UK.

The questionnaire follows a private equity ESG due diligence template from the PRI, which has become widely used by LPs; many GPs have reported receiving variations of it from investors.

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

Scope 4 emissions and carbon-adjusted earnings were some of the cutting edge ideas on the menu at this week’s Responsible Investment Forum: Europe.

By self-imposing a financially punitive measure to reduce emissions, NREP is demonstrating a method which promotes proactivity over passive carbon reduction investments.

Investors in Adamantem’s $536m second fund monitor portfolio companies’ net-zero plans and progress – an unusually high level of LP involvement for private equity.

'Let's get the data out there', say attendees at PEI’s Responsible Investment Forum 2022, in response to growing LP demands around ESG data.

LPs may well 'surprise and intimidate' managers with the level of their ESG sophistication, according to Mercer's head of infrastructure.

Stan Miranda, founder of Partners Capital, talks to Toby Mitchenall about how private markets investors should think about uncertainty when investing into the global energy transition.

The firm looks for infrastructure investments in energy, water and urban infrastructure that are well positioned to weather the 'triple threat' of physical, regulatory and policy climate risks.