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Ares Management Corporation's ESG head Adam Helzer on 'democratising' climate action within the firm, connecting the different asset classes, and how private markets firms should approach fossil fuel-related investments.

Without a specific private equity-focused template, firms have been largely 'feeling their own way,' when it comes to human rights due diligence.

Mount Street Group says the new tool can build data into clients’ whole loan books and provide forecasting measures to enhance risk analysis.

'This decarbonisation movement is truly the biggest generational opportunity for the infrastructure asset class that will be in front of us over the next couple of decades,' George Yong says.

As regulation and voluntary initiatives are starting to create alignment around ESG expectations in private equity, how does the PRI maintain its allure for private equity firms?

The Zurich-based manager will back private equity GPs pursing two separate impact themes.

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.