Toby Mitchenall
The use of catalytic capital to mobilize private sector investment has 'hardly met expectations;' that may be about to change.
A list of private markets investors – both allocators and general partners – who have committed to report on their nature-related risks, impacts and opportunities.
It will not just be ESG pioneers and natural capital specialists integrating biodiversity into their investment processes.
The Swedish firm spent two years fundraising in an 'undeniably challenging' market, says partner Johanna Levander.
Bregal Sphere, the recently launched impact arm of Bregal Investments, wants to be at the 'tip of the spear' in showing what high-quality carbon credits look like, says the new co-head of its nature-based solutions strategy.
Institutional investors are increasingly mindful of inequality as a systemic risk; the question is whether they are willing and able to do anything about it.
The cast of characters at this year's Impact Investor Global Summit tells a positive story about how institutional investors are thinking about impact.
This is part of a wider effort by the pension to quantify the impact of its 'targeted sustainability investments'.
The firm has collaborated with Conservation International, a global non-profit, to form Akaria Natural Capital.
Across private markets different bodies and groups are striving to harmonize ESG data gathering and reporting: it is a worthy and devilishly difficult task.