The Aquila European Renewables Income Fund (AERIF) has been awarded a four-star Green Rating in its first annual GRESB Assessment for 2021. The GRESB Assessment is an objective investor-driven global ESG benchmark and reporting framework assessing the performance of real estate and infrastructure funds, companies, and assets. The results provide
Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) and UN Principles for Responsible investment (PRI) have collaborated on two new templates. Diligend clients can now access and easily roll out the new ILPA template documents: the due diligence questionnaire 2.0 and the diversity metrics template, when using the digital due diligence platform. With
TMF Group, a professional and financial services firm, has become a signatory of the UN-supported PRI – Principles in Responsible Investment – enhancing its ethical status and desire to promote responsible investment. The appointment follows hot on the heels of the company’s EcoVadis Silver Medal rating in July 2021, which puts
ESG criteria are ‘important’ or ‘very important’ for investment decisions for nearly 70 per cent of institutional investors, according to a survey by Empire. Article 8 and Article 9 funds are also attractive.
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) has awarded Beacon Capital Partners an Overall Regional Sector Leader award for its environmental, social, governance, and resilience leadership efforts on behalf of Fund 7. “GRESB Sector Leaders are the organisations that are setting the pace and driving progress toward a net zero
Mondelēz International has joined Circulate Capital’s Ocean Fund (CCOF) as a limited partner and will now be supporting scalable business solutions to help develop infrastructure for the collecting, sorting and recycling of plastic waste, including flexible films. The goal of this investment, which is part of Mondelēz International’s Sustainable Futures
Sustainable Development Capital, SDCL, that it has now raised over USD2 billion for investment in energy efficiency, announced at Built Environment Day for COP26 in Glasgow. SDCL manages the SDCL Energy Efficiency income Trust plc (SEIT), which is listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange, which has
Novata, a new technology platform and public benefit corporation that provides the private markets with a cutting-edge Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) solution, has announced a Series A investment round of USD21 million. The investment represents one of the largest initial funding rounds for a public benefit corporation. Principal
BGF has added two new high-profile names to its clean growth advisory board, which was set up earlier this year to accelerate investments in companies engaged in carbon reduction and the energy transition. The advisory board is chaired by Julia King (Baroness Brown of Cambridge). The new additions are:
Following government focus on low carbon heating roll-out, RSK Group Limited, an integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business, is further strengthening its offering with the acquisition of four businesses across the environmental services sector. New businesses Carbon Zero Consulting, Envireau Water, Enviroflow and Streetwise are the latest in a
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