Institutional investors are increasingly looking to real assets for sustainability and capital preservation, although difficulty finding suitable opportunities is seen as an impediment.
Interest to invest in China’s decarbonisation is aplenty — but foreign asset owners are waiting for the country to drop its Covid Zero policies first, before assessing these opportunities.
The Singapore state investment company expanded its portfolio size to US$297 billion, but will adopt a cautious approach this year in view of the global economic slowdown.
The new company will invest in technology-based and nature-based climate solution providers and companies or projects that help to develop an efficient, credible carbon ecosystem.
AIGCC’s net-zero investment report explores how the market is defining and investing in climate-aligned opportunities, and examines the barriers that investors in the region continue to face.
Australia’s second largest superannuation fund will only divest as a last resort, saying its better to work with, rather than against, those companies with ESG risks.
The two investors' new JV underlines Temasek's commitment to carbon neutrality, but other sovereign wealth funds are unlikely to follow with their own venture capital investments.