Beyond Barbarians at the Gate: climate resilience becomes private equity’s new value lever
From California wildfires to rising insurance costs, climate risks are pushing private equity firms to rethink how they create and protect value
Private Equity
Net Zero Investor’s Climate Solutions Summit 2025
Net Zero Investor brought together asset owners and industry professionals to discuss the technologies and investment strategies needed to support the energy transition in an event hosted by Clean Growth Fund, Regenerate Asset Management and Octopus Energy Generation.
Skin in the game: will Morgan Stanley IM’s carry linkage blueprint find more takers?
The 1GT private equity fund links 50% of carried interest to climate outcomes
‘It takes patience’: EIFO’s Sara Sande on investing in early-stage climate tech
The Danish Export and Investment Fund is looking to become an early backer for climate tech companies
‘Net zero economy making waves’: insights from IVGF
Net-zero tech drives high-quality job creation and productivity, as investors back-deep tech solutions across the energy transition, according to industry experts at Longview Networks Institutional Venture and Growth Forum
EIFO and Novo Holdings lead €6.1m seed round for Greenland’s Rock Flour Company
The start-up is aiming to scale a new carbon-negative agricultural solution - Greenlandic Rock Flour.
When raising over $1bn goes wrong: a climate-tech investor cautionary tale
As climate-tech companies raise bigger rounds, premature scaling and underperformance can have severe consequences for both investors and founders, argues Laurie Menoud, founding partner of California-based VC firm At One Ventures
Good old days: is venture capital investment in climate tech past its peak?
VC climate tech allocations are slowing, amid an overall more challenging outlook for riskier assets but institutional investors are still interested, PitchBook data show
“Once in a generation chance”: Australian institutions backing $50m climate-tech VC fund
CEFC and Australian Ethical have invested $15m each in the fund managed by Climate Tech Partners
Inside the climate tech financing ladder: part II - the disruptors
In the second instalment of this series, we focus on climate tech start-ups disrupting incumbent, sometimes hard-to-abate industries
Inside the climate-tech financing ladder: part I – the matchmakers
In the first instalment of our new series on the UK’s climate-tech start-ups, we examine firms who aim connect clean energy consumers with suppliers. How are these new firms climbing up the financing ladder?
Scaling climate solutions: inside LPPI’s new Environmental Opportunities Fund
Ahead of the launch of LPPI’s £500m Environmental Opportunities Fund this week, Net Zero Investor sat down with the fund's dedicated portfolio manager Helena Threlfall to discuss the thinking behind the new strategy
“Unprecedented” private market demand for nature-based solutions
Investors are tapping into a once-in-a-generation wave to drive decarbonisation and halt biodiversity loss, AXA IM claims
Phoenix’s Greg Scott on the UK’s renewable investment gap
As the UK pushes for private investment to drive economic growth, Greg Scott, senior investment manager at Phoenix Group, discusses the challenges of financing grid connectivity and renewable infrastructure
Is the UK government’s net zero strategy enough to build investor confidence?
With the UK government pressing ahead with its net zero pledges and encouraging pension funds to invest more within the country, are they creating the right policy environment for investors?