Category Archives: Private Equity

Oak Hill Partnership Shows That Environmental Opportunities Abound for Middle-Market Private Equity Firms

By | Published: October 11, 2012

Large private equity firms like The Carlyle Group (Carlyle) and KKR have clearly proven the environmental, financial and reputational benefits of undertaking environmental initiatives within their portfolios. Since we started our private equity work in 2008, however, smaller firms have repeatedly questioned whether it is really possible to replicate a similar approach at the majority [...]

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BSR Insight highlights environmental progress in private equity

By | Bio | Published: October 9, 2012

When Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) first teamed up with leaders in the private equity industry four years ago, we were building on the learnings from over 20 years of partnerships with leading public companies.  However, as BSR’s recent blog points out, there are now new lessons learned from private equity firms that all companies can [...]

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BSR Report Takes Stock of Private Equity Industry's ESG Reporting

By | Bio | Published: October 1, 2012

A recent report by BSR on the level of environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting in the private equity industry provides a useful benchmark of the progress that has been made, as well as the ground that remains to be covered. BSR authors Laura Gitman and Charlotte Bancilhon reviewed the ESG reporting practices of the [...]

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Private Equity Firms Realize the Value of Participating in EDF Climate Corps

By | Published: September 18, 2012

In recent weeks, the eight EDF Climate Corps fellows who have been embedded at private equity firms and their portfolio companies began giving their final reports to senior management about their efforts to identify strategic opportunities to increase energy efficiency and returns. We've been impressed at the level of engagement by top leaders at The [...]

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Environmental Leader: Fund Managers, Investors Increasingly Focus on ESG

By | Published: September 14, 2012

Andrew Malk and Zach Goldman are Partners at Malk Sustainability Partners (MSP), a specialty management consultancy that guides investors and businesses to leverage resource and environmental management to maximize profitability. Many of the most recognized names in the private equity industry are currently leveraging environmental, social, and governance (ESG) tools to create financial value for [...]

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Top Investors Buy In to Environmental Performance

By | Bio | Published: September 13, 2012

Proactively managing environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities can be a powerful lever for value creation.  Since the launch of our Green Returns work in 2008, we’ve worked hard to convince private equity and institutional investors of that.  We’re now seeing the pay off as these issues have climbed up the agenda at [...]

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Help Wanted: Private Equity Firms Add Staff to Manage Environmental Risk and Opportunities

By | Bio | Published: July 2, 2012

A growing number of private equity firms are hiring in-house professionals and engaging outside experts to better manage environmental, social, and governance risks and opportunities.  Private Equity International's Responsible Investment Handbook 2012 highlighted this trend earlier this year. In particular, the handbook spotlighted the fact that private equity leaders are adding new and much deeper [...]

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KKR Green Portfolio Program Celebrates Fourth Anniversary with Global Expansion

By | Bio | Published: May 23, 2012

KKR’s Green Portfolio Program, a project we launched together in 2008 to identify ways to improve the financial and environmental performance of KKR’s portfolio companies, turned four years old yesterday. And by the numbers, it’s been a very busy four years. Participating portfolio businesses have grown from our three pilot companies at the launch to [...]

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Senior leader buy-in proves key to successful ESG programs in Private Equity

By | Published: April 5, 2012

Lee Coker, Project Manager, Environmental Defense Fund's Corporate Partnerships Program In our past few blog posts about our Green Returns project in the private equity industry, we’ve highlighted several environmental, social and governance (ESG) best practices that are emerging across the sector. One critical element of a successful ESG strategy that we have not yet [...]

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Sustainability Boosts Returns for Private Equity Funds: Part III

By | Published: March 29, 2012

By Andrew Malk, Founder and Managing Partner of Malk Sustainability Partners (MSP) Part III: The Fine Print of ESG Underwriting In the second installment of this series, we highlighted how private equity fund managers can drive value creation across their portfolios by integrating efficient resource management expertise into operational teams and broader corporate strategy, as [...]

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