Climate Change

The bidders’ brown-to-green plan for Origin Energy eclipsed significant competition concerns in the Australian watchdog’s landmark decision.

Australia’s competition watchdog said Brookfield’s Global Transition Fund would have a ‘strong imperative and commercial incentive to lower emissions quickly’, outweighing vertical integration concerns.

Morrison & Co’s Steven Fitzgerald said the investment is consistent with its decarbonisation thematic and ‘fundamentally’ has the characteristics of infrastructure.

Energy transition-focused Mirova returns to the market with a sixth flagship fund only a year after the fifth fund's close on €1.6bn.

CFO Andrew Cross sees climate-related investments as a major focus for the years ahead, with climate a ‘cross-border issue’.

Floating offshore wind is tried and tested, with early movers telling us this is an asset class that will go far, stay afloat, and pay off.

As the warmest season ever is drawing to an end, it is timely to pay attention to allocations to green investments and the dangers of meekly following the money.

The firm has launched a new sustainability strategy and is among the first infrastructure investors to set such a goal, according to sustainability head Sandrine Lalmant.

BlackRock’s climate infrastructure team has launched a New Zealand-focused fund that aims to raise its capital from domestic investors to accelerate the country’s energy transition.

Women remain woefully underrepresented in the fight to save our planet. It is time for infrastructure managers to lead from the front.