climate

A coalition of investors with $11trn in assets has told private markets managers exactly what it needs, and when, in terms of climate action and disclosure.

The European Investment Fund provided a €75m cornerstone commitment, with the fund likely to close in the next 12 months.

Private market asset managers are failing 'to keep pace with level of ambition' needed to reach 2050 net-zero ambitions', say members of the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance.

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.

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.

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.