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The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition

Corporate Knights

While many companies, particularly in the fossil fuel and banking sectors, resist any major departure from their lucrative business-as-usual path, the leaders are doubling down on sustainability. In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior.

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The murky world of private equity takeovers of Canadian oil and gas

Corporate Knights

“But little changes for the climate as these often older, dirtier and riskier investments have merely moved into the hands of private equity firms.”. Private equity investments in oil and gas have grown in the last decade. Between 2010 and 2021, private equity firms invested at least $1.1 Brookfield AGM. KKR’s case.

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AB: Six Metrics Light the Path to Sustainability for Emerging-Market Sovereigns

3BL Media

Gauging Sustainability with Precision Metrics To solve the problems of subjectivity, reactivity and obscurity, we’ve identified six measures by which a sovereign issuer may be ruled in or out of an investable universe of sustainable sovereign debt. A country that passes all six metrics qualifies for sustainable EM investing.

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SEC rule change stifles key risk signal, disenfranchises retail investors

GreenBiz

Shareholder proposals provide an early warning signal of risks and opportunities for management and boards," said Heidi Welsh, executive director of the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2). Over time, the shareholder resolution process has evolved to offer an additional benefit.

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KKR Launches New Leadership Team for Global Climate Strategy

ESG Today

Gailliot joins KKR after more than 20 years at Goldman Sachs as a private investor in the firm’s merchant banking division, most recently serving as head of the Energy Transition and the Diversified Industrials investment teams.

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Financing Women- Owned or -Led SMEs for Sustainable Growth: Navigating Capital Supply Side Challenges in Africa

James Militzer

Since 2010, we’ve raised more than $420 million for WSMEs and other inclusive businesses in Africa, and we’ve seen how investors can miss good investment opportunities in high potential WSMEs by not being gender sensitive. For instance, in 2022 KCB Bank Kenya announced the creation of a KShs 250 billion (US $1.65

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Private Equity Firms Are Paving the Way to a More Sustainable Future 

Richard Matthews

A large and growing share of that investment capitol is going towards impact investments. In an interview with Private Equity International (PEI), Tania Carnegie, the Global Private Equity and Asset Management Leader for KPMG Impact, said she is confident about the future of impact investing.