AP : Emissions declarations by equity firm Carlyle under question
Private equity firm The Carlyle Group is under fire for not disclosing its largest oil and gas investment in its report on financial risk from emissions. A recent story from AP…
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Private equity’s role in climate crisis a center point of Energy Finance conference
Private equity’s role in climate crisis a center point of Energy Finance conference PESP climate director presents findings of new PE scorecard report On Monday, Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) Climate Director Alyssa Giachino spoke on…
New Climate Risks Scorecard Outlines Clear Demands of the Private Equity Industry
PESP and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) released the Private Equity Climate Risks Scorecard which provides first-of-its-kind research and analysis of eight private equity firms with some of the largest energy…
Cleanup Carlyle campaign shines light on Rubenstein’s powerful positions
The Carlyle Group’s ties to prominent cultural and academic institutions have been under fire due to the firm’s extensive investments in fossil fuels. The firm ranked last…
Private Equity Climate Risks Briefing
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) released their NEW scorecard that sheds light on eight of the largest private equity firms in the world, their collective holdings of billions of dollars…
Private Equity Climate Risks Scorecard featured by The Guardian, Bloomberg and more
The new Private Equity Climate Risks Scorecard, authored by PESP and AFREF, has seen wide coverage in the media since its release on September 14. Take a look at what different media…
New Scorecard Shows Private Equity’s Race to the Bottom on Climate: Carlyle ranks last, earns an ‘F’
New Scorecard Shows Private Equity’s Race to the Bottom on Climate Carlyle ranks last, earns an ‘F’ The Carlyle Group, Warburg Pincus, and KKR are the top three offenders on climate among private equity firms,…
Private Equity Climate Risks: Scorecard 2022
The Carlyle Group, Warburg Pincus, and KKR are the top three offenders on climate among private equity firms, continuing to invest in polluting industries and exposing investors to significant climate-related risk, according to a new…
Investment Week : Deep Dive: Private markets take steps towards the ‘mainstreaming’ of ESG
Investment Week: Deep Dive: Private markets take steps towards the ‘mainstreaming’ of ESG A report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project was recently featured in a piece by Investment Week on the impact…
Watching the Private Equity Funds behind Ithaca’s Decarbonization Plan
Last year the city council of Ithaca, New York, voted to fully decarbonize by 2030, requiring grid decarbonization, electrifying transportation and rolling out heat pumps to the city’s 6,000 aging commercial and residential…
Warburg Pincus chasing false solutions to the climate crisis
Despite a long history of investments in fossil fuels, global private equity firm Warburg Pincus is showing signs of cleaning up its image with a recent investment in ClimeCO, a decarbonization advisory firm…
