The Low Carbon Investment Playbook

An accessible guide to accelerate decarbonisation through Private Equity

Discover our practical guide for private equity professionals who want to adapt their practices to the environmental challenges of the 21st century.

Its objective: to provide investors and ESG teams at private equity funds with a summary of key information on the topic of decarbonisation.

This guide is the result of twelve months of analysis by the Carbon Cutter team and around fifty discussions with industry professionals.

What you will find in this study

1. Practical recommendations for effectively integrating climate considerations into each stage of the investment cycle;
2. An overview of the latest methodologies for building your investment fund’s climate strategy (ACT Finance Investing, SBTi Finance, PMDR, Climate Dividends, etc.);
3. Insights and best practices from leading private equity professionals on the subject.

Six investment tactics to accelerate decarbonisation through private equity are presented:

Share, contribute

This guide is freely available because we want to share its lessons with an audience as wide as possible. If you would like to help us, please contact us so that we can distribute it to your colleagues and peers. We can also send printed copies of the guide on request and organise presentation sessions.

What’s more, we don’t intend to stop there. We want to continue exploring several topics: the role of LPs, relationships with other investment vehicles (impact debt funds, European financing, etc.) and grey-to-green funds. If you would like to help us, you can join our working group, which is composed exclusively of ESG managers from funds and investors, and/or provide financial support for our initiative.

To do so, please write to us.

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