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Impact Investor BlueOrchard Appoints Martin Diaz Plata as Head of Private Equity Investments

ESG Today

Impact investment management firm BlueOrchard announced today the appointment of Martin Diaz Plata as Head of Private Equity Investments.

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Microsoft Purchases Nearly 1 Million Tons of Nature-based Carbon Removal Credits from Anew

ESG Today

Microsoft and climate solutions provider Anew Climate announced today a new nature-based carbon removal purchase agreement, with Anew delivering more than 970,000 tons of carbon removal credits generated from improved forest management projects across the U.S.

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Clean Energy Platform Palmetto Raises $150 Million

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Launched in 2001 as part of TPG’s impact investing platform TPG Rise, TPG Rise Climate invests in companies that can enable carbon aversion in a quantifiable way, in areas including clean energy, enabling solutions, decarbonized transport, greening industrials, and agriculture and natural solutions.

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TotalEnergies Invests $100 Million in Forest-Based Carbon Reduction Projects

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Adrien Henry, Vice President Nature Based Solutions at TotalEnergies Exploration & Production, said: “We are thrilled to partner with such experienced specialists as Anew Climate and Aurora Sustainable Lands, who develop high-quality projects aimed at the sustainable preservation of natural carbon sinks which is essential to achieve carbon (..)

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This Week’s People Moves: Pinebridge’s Kabbaj Joins Man Group as RI Director

Chris Hall

Nicole Musicco, CalPERS’ CIO, said: “Peter’s long record of impact investing across global markets elevated him in our search and makes him a great fit with the fund’s mission. Rosl Veltmeijer is now Fund Manager of the Triodos Sterling Bond Impact Fund.

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This Week’s People Moves: Ex-ADB Impact Expert Joins ThomasLloyd

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including ThomasLloyd, MEAG, Alpha Real Capital, DLA Piper, and UKSIF. ThomasLloyd , the Zurich-headquartered global impact investment firm, has appointed Smita Nakhooda as its Head of Impact and ESG.

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No Time to Rest in Passive ESG Market

Chris Hall

To say that ESG investment benchmarks have come a long way in a short space of time would be an almost heroic understatement. To take one UK-based example, when FTSE4Good was launched in 2001, a pioneering benchmark for socially responsible investing (SRI), the focus was on carbon emissions.