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Impact shop Blue Earth is moving towards ‘operational independence’ from Partners Group, but the young firm will seek to replicate one of its forebear’s key attributes.

This impact trailblazer has laid the groundwork to solve one of private equity’s greatest challenges: ESG reporting, reports affiliate title Private Equity International.

LeapFrog, which received an investment from Temasek last year, has been busy building its investor relations bench.

The private markets firm recently committed to the ESG Data Convergence Project which seeks to standardise sustainability reporting.

A look inside Bay Bridge Ventures, a firm with grand plans founded by an ex-CalPERS portfolio manager and two venture capitalists.

The European PE firm has appointed the former head of ESG at British American Tobacco.

After raising some seed capital, the impact verification outfit is building its European presence.

Justin Adams will engage ‘like-minded investors’ at the climate impact firm established by Al Gore and Generation IM.

VC firm has hired its first ESG and sustainability director, Soline Kauffmann-Tourkestansky, to support portfolio company founders to implement carbon footprinting and other ESG KPIs.

The climate-focused investment platform, which launched in September, named its chief impact officer last month.