Snehal Shah

Founders can look to asset owners, corporations, government funding and project and equipment finance to scale their operations.

Meier, who oversees assets worth $272bn, believes private equity's fees are 'too high'.

Eiffel Impact Debt II uses ESG levers to encourage sustainability improvements and is one of the largest-ever 'impact' debt funds; strategy head Antoine Maspétiol tells affiliate New Private Markets how Eiffel navigated the ‘tough’ fundraising environment.

Private impact credit strategies in emerging markets are ‘resilient, uncorrelated to the broader market’, amid the fundraising squeeze, Blue Earth head of credit Amy Wang says.

The firm has announced plans to raise private equity climate fund this year, but the lion's share of its energy transition strategy will be debt and 'hybrid' capital.

A number of US investors have programmes aimed at backing underrepresented groups.

Jennifer Powers and Reiner Boehning are investing $2.5bn for ECP’s climate credit strategy – which they sourced independently in the year since departing GIP

Three Hills joins a growing crowd of private debt fund managers launching impact strategies.

The UK’s Environment Agency Pension Fund is backing Lombard Odier’s climate debt fund as CIO Graham Cook says that transition financing 'is largely going to come from debt'.

Arcmont has released a guide to structuring sustainability-linked loans as it joins the likes of Ares, Amundi and Barings in offering margin discounts linked to ESG KPIs.