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The New York asset manager’s LPs include family offices and smaller public pension funds that appreciate its investments in real assets that provide essential services to strengthen power grids.

Lægernes Pension & Bank and P+ Pensionskassen for Akademikere have invested a combined $219m to CI Green Credit Fund I.

Despite the fundraising slowdown across private markets, Energy Impact Partners founder Hans Kobler, says investors want to put ‘real money to work’ for the energy transition.

LeapFrog Investments’ climate strategy, which launched last year with a target to invest $500m, addresses four main themes: built environment, energy, food and mobility, writes co-head of climate Nakul Zaveri.

Following the CI investment, Trace Carbon Solutions will have over $420m of equity capital commitments from Quantum Capital Group, CI and Trace Management.

The firm has launched a new sustainability strategy and is among the first infrastructure investors to set such a goal, according to sustainability head Sandrine Lalmant.

A-Gas, acquired by KKR’s fourth European buyout fund in 2017, supplies refrigerant gases and manages their lifecycle, including recovery, re-use and disposal.

Climate Investment – the firm founded by 12 energy majors in the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative – is targeting $750m for the Decarbonisation Acceleration Fund.

From nuclear-produced pink, purple or red hydrogen, to solar-generated yellow hydrogen or turquoise hydrogen made through methane pyrolysis, the options far exceed grey, blue or green. 

While scaleability remains a concern, microgrids have a significant role in bringing power to developing countries.