Aggressive underwriting will prove the undoing of some digital infrastructure investors over the next few years, say DigitalBridge’s Marc Ganzi and Kevin Smithen.
Social infrastructure has a vast funding gap and could form the market’s next frontier, say Augustin Schneider-Maunoury, asset management director, and Aymar de Tracy, investment director, at InfraVia Capital Partners.
Nick Flynn and Soti Calochristos, investment directors in abrdn’s core infrastructure team, discuss how the lower mid-market can drive Europe’s energy transition, and how investors can help turn legacy fossil fuel assets green.
As the effects of climate change threaten our very survival, ensuring access to water is quickly becoming one of the defining issues of the 21st century, writes Gregory Smith, president and chief executive officer at Instar.
European infrastructure managers share their hopes for the legacy of the latest global summit on climate change.
Denham Capital’s Sabine Chalopin, ESG director, and Jorge Camiña, partner and head of sustainable infrastructure credit, set out a six-step approach.
With governments cash-strapped as a result of the pandemic, private capital must play a pivotal role in creating a more sustainable future, says Stéphanie Passet, investment director at BNP Paribas Asset Management.
The future of sustainability lies in our ability to address agricultural resilience, adapting to and mitigating the impact of climate change while securing and enhancing essential food, water and land resources, says Instar’s Gregory Smith.
LPs, regulators, lenders and employees all consider sustainability to be infrastructure’s top priority, says Aurélien Roelens, Cube Infrastructure Managers’ investment director and ESG co-ordinator.
AIIM’s head of ESG, Dean Alborough, says that managing risk is key to achieving impact in Africa – and the standardisation of reporting will make life easier for fund managers.