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Even amid a political backlash against ESG, 'the zeitgeist of society' compels investors to worry about more than just the rate of return, says Carlyle's co-founder and co-chairman in a video interview at NEXUS 2024.

Impact investing, especially in emerging markets, is a new frontier for most investors; secondaries transactions will ease them in.

'You don't necessarily need the full, full picture to start decarbonising,' a sustainability consultant advises at PEI's Responsible Investment Forum: New York this week.

The initiative's applicability to both GP and portfolio companies means it is emerging as a 'gold standard' in private markets.

Blue Earth’s secondaries strategy – part of its soon-to-launch multi-strategy fund – has just acquired a portfolio of fund stakes from a UK development finance institution.

The ESG Data Convergence Initiative has now gathered 62,000 data points in a standardised format. Vinay Shandal and Ben Morley, partners at Boston Consulting Group, describe three takeaways from their conversations with private equity GPs about the results.

While biodiversity is important, overstretched ESG teams at private equity firms need to be allowed to focus on portfolio-level decarbonisation work.

Alongside infrastructure and private credit, sustainability is a theme large asset owners are ready to get behind, according to a survey by Mercer Investments.

Private equity decarbonisation strategies are becoming more common, but it is important to make sure they are the genuine article, according to Matteo Squilloni.

The firm's Green Transition Fund will reach a final close in July, according to managing director Valerio Camerano.