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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.

Nature-related disclosures are becoming vital for investors but require careful calibration, according to Paine Schwartz Partners’ CEO Kevin Schwartz and head of sustainability Rachel Hurley.

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.

In this podcast, part of PEI Group's Private Markets 2030 programme, guests from Brookfield discuss the opportunities and risks around artificial intelligence in infrastructure.

There are many complexities to the sports market that investors must become acquainted with before taking the plunge, say Joe Leccese, Justin Breen and Kelli Moll at Proskauer.

Key changes are still required to ensure individual investors have access to private markets, says Pilar Junco, co-chief client officer at AltamarCAM Partners.

As new investor bases start engaging with private equity, Mike Lucarelli and Jim Walker of Adams Street Partners explore what’s required to capitalise on this newfound interest.