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“The global energy system is broken, bringing us closer to climate catastrophe.” These were the words that United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres used to urge the world to end fossil fuel pollution and accelerate the renewable energy transition, “before we incinerate our only home.”(1) Alone responsible for 73% of carbon dioxide emissions(2), the energy sector is at the forefront of a change of model. But while the trajectory has been mapped out, many challenges still lie ahead, and there are huge needs for financing. In these circumstances, Mirova’s Environmental Impact Private Equity team seeks to accelerate the deployment of solutions and technologies that will contribute to meeting the net zero trajectory to 2050.
The world is faced with urgent, global and interconnected environmental challenges: global warming, air, water and land pollution, non-sustainable resources exploitation, waste, food and water insecurity, deforestation, biodiversity loss.... Solutions exist, but they need financing to scale up and become sustainable and replicable business models.
When growth capital makes it possible to build sustainable real estate At the heart of social and societal issues, cities and urban areas are some of the drivers of climate change, causing collateral damage to biodiversity, resources, air and health. At the forefront, the transport and construction sectors are facing a challenge of unprecedented magnitude: to transform themselves fundamentally in order to drastically reduce their impact on the environment. In this context, Mirova’s Impact Private Equity strategy focuses on solutions and technologies that will help to make sustainable cities a reality. In this article, we take a closer look at buildings.
Discover the 2021 Impact Report for Mirova's Energy Transition Infrastructure platform.
Since the beginning of the year, the market's attention has focused on challenges confronting the energy sector, which is in turmoil following Russia's military attack on Ukraine in February. The embargoes imposed as a result of this offensive have heightened fears, already palpable in the preceding months, of tensions between energy supply and demand, causing a further surge in prices, particularly for oil and gas.
When growth capital builds the clean mobility of tomorrow At the heart of social and societal issues, cities and urban areas are one of the drivers of climate change, causing collateral damage to biodiversity, resources, air and health. At the forefront, the transport and construction sectors are facing a challenge of unprecedented magnitude: to transform themselves fundamentally in order to drastically reduce their impact on the environment. In this context, Mirova’s Impact Private Equity strategy focuses on solutions and technologies that will help to make sustainable cities a reality. In this article, we take a closer look at mobility.
