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

Richard Matthews

.” Interest in sustainability-focused investing is growing while those who fail to meet high standards are vulnerable to value erosion from regulatory and consumer forces. Fossil fuels are at high risk of becoming stranded assets and PEs have a significant stake in the energy sector. Moving Beyond Financial Value.

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JUST Capital’s New Head of Investor Strategies Says It’s ‘Increasingly Irresponsible’ to Ignore ESG

Just Capital

That interest had already been growing among shareholders, but investors hadn’t really been vocal about how they were increasingly viewing human capital as a source of value creation in the firm versus merely a cost to be minimized. It’s like, “OK, companies, are you going to have stranded assets in the future?