Interview

The impact of flooding, heatwaves and rising sea levels on business continuity is pushing climate risk – and effective ratings – up the agenda for PE dealmakers, says Rémy Estran-Fraioli, CEO of Scientific Climate Ratings.

PE firms have a unique role to play in steering portfolio companies’ sustainability efforts, according to 3i’s Sophia Walwyn-James and Sasha East.

Initiatives focused on enhancing stakeholder welfare can be a valuable route to returns and are already reshaping corporate Japan, according to NSSK’s Jun Tsusaka and Kiyomi Matsuda.

A higher-governance form of growth capital investing is gaining popularity as young companies are forced to navigate an intensely volatile world, says head of Permira growth opportunities Stefan Dziarski.

For growth capital firms, first-rate value creation tools are becoming an increasingly important differentiator, says Martín Escobari, co-president and head of global growth equity at General Atlantic.