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‘We would expect to see a dedicated fund... in due course,’ says co-president Scott Kleinman.

BlackRock’s Lucy Dale shares five factors in how the asset manager determines ESG risks in its loan underwriting process for infrastructure assets.

Michael Izzo, Hines’s first carbon strategy VP, will help the firm ‘create carbon standards’ for real estate.

Emerging tech – which could be seen as ripe for a VC portfolio – will instead be considered part of the firm's infra mix, says Skandia Mutual’s Hans Fredrik Forssman.

The Canadian Pension has entered the voluntary market at an important stage in its development and wants to invest in decades long carbon-capture projects.

GIP invested in Texas pipeline company Easton Energy last month – and its stranded asset potential was not a deal breaker, says GIP chairman Adebayo Ogunlesi.

Investor discussions at the ESG and Sustainability Forum at the Infrastructure Investor Global Summit focused on the road to net zero.

Investors in private markets are hoping for concrete action and changes to ESG reporting standards from COP26 in November.

Actis has raised $6bn for its fifth energy fund and will invest in renewables and natural gas globally.

EQT has become the first private markets firm to set Science-Based Targets. Global head of sustainable transformation Bahare Haghshenas says the firm is in a 'unique position' to take a leading role in the private markets transition.