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KKR 2021 Sustainability Report: Driving Value Creation

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: OUR APPROACH When we are invested in a company, we leverage our investment model and our focus on operational and strategic improvements to drive value creation on ESG issues across our investments, where relevant. Q: How do you think about ESG performance as opportunity for value creation? SOURCE: KKR.

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UK Pension Fund Shifts Over $35 Billion to Amundi, Invesco from State Street over Closer ESG Alignment

ESG Today

billion) in assets, with a strong focus on responsible investment, including climate-focused and net zero-aligned equity and fixed income mandates. By selecting Amundi and Invesco, we have chosen to prioritise sustainability, active stewardship, and long-term value creation for our near seven million members.

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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

GreenBiz

In the wake of COVID-19, when governments will provide massive stimulus funding to restart economies, it’s more important than ever to consider the long-term value creation of urban infrastructure investments. There is an urgent, global need for building urban resilience to heat and, as usual, business has a key role to play.

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ESG is the private equity industry’s next frontier

Corporate Knights

As of May 2022, the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (an international group of asset managers committed to net-zero) had grown to 273 investors who collectively manage US$61.3 found that 90% of limited partners factor ESG into their investment decisions, and 77% use it as a criterion in selecting general partners.

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KKR 2021 Sustainability Report: Climate

3BL Media

We see climate as a global challenge that requires solutions at all levels, and we are thinking about how we invest, where we invest, and what we do to drive value creation. Set net-zero by 2050 goals at three private markets funds that are currently being raised. KKR CLIMATE ACTION STRATEGY. SCALING UP: 2021 HIGHLIGHTS.

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Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Appoints Anna Murray as Global Head of Sustainable Investing

ESG Today

Murray joins OTPP from Sun Life Capital (SLC), where she has been serving as Global Head of ESG, responsible for the integration of ESG risk management and value creation practices into investment decisions and management across the firm’s investment platform. We look forward to Ms.

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The 33 sustainability certifications you need to know

GreenBiz

The organizations that comprise the infamous alphabet soup of reporting frameworks and standards each provide their own approach to the reporting of sustainable value creation and disclosure of climate-related risks, which makes deciding what reporting-related certification to pursue incredibly difficult.