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Not all net zero pathways are created equal: Pivotal questions for investors to ask
Improving real estate’s sustainability profile is pivotal to addressing climate change, as the sector contributes some 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Why institutional investors are turning to data centres
The data centre industry is experiencing explosive demand growth driven by expanding use of technology and structural shifts in how data is consumed.
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KGAL ESPF 5 acquires wind farm in south-west Germany
Leading independent investment and asset manager KGAL is pleased to announce that its renewable energy fund KGAL ESPF 5 has successfully bid for three wind turbines from BayWa r.e. The wind farm, located in Reichenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, has a total capacity of 18.6 megawatts (MW) and is nearing completion. KGAL is planning further acquisitions in Germany and the Czech Republic for its impact fund, which will have its final close in October 2024.
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Potential Regulatory Risks and Opportunities for Energy Infrastructure Following the 2024 U.S. Federal Elections
The US is at a crossroads ahead of one of the closest contested presidential elections in years. This election has repercussions for every sector of the world’s largest economy and could create significant change depending on whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris are elected to the White House. Potential impact to the energy infrastructure sector has come into focus during the presidential campaign after historic levels of investment under the Biden administration.
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The mid-market opportunity: accessing the decarbonisation and digitalisation tailwinds
In June 2024, the United Nations released its latest report emphasising the critical need for increased investments in new infrastructure to meet global climate goals.1
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KGAL ESPF 6 participates in the development of one of Europe’s most important hydrogen hubs
Leading independent investment and asset manager KGAL announces that the KGAL ESPF 6 Energy Transition Fund is investing in a green hydrogen project at Lubmin, a Baltic Sea port in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, with a total capacity of up to 1,050 megawatts. This project is part of Germany’s largest planned centre for the production and import of green hydrogen, with Europe-wide significance. KGAL’s investment has excellent prospects, as the location offers immense strategic advantages and the project is being driven forward by experienced specialists. KGAL has partnered with project initiator PtX Development GmbH and project planner GP JOULE, the German green energy specialist.
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What It Takes to Catalyze the Transition in Emerging Markets
The best way to experience the Bhadla solar park region is from the air. Through a plane window high above the Thar Desert in northwestern India, theexpanse of photovoltaic panels appears suddenly out of the rolling dunes, shimmering in the afternoon sun like an inland sea.
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The IHA 2024/25 finalists at a glance
The International High-Rise Award is aimed at architects and developers whose buildings are at least 100 meters high and have been completed in the past two years. The jury evaluates the nominated projects with the criteria: future-oriented design, functionality, innovative building technology, integration into urban development schemes, sustainability and cost-effectiveness.
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International High-Rise Award 2024/25 Projects from three continents in the final for the world’s best high-rise
The finalists of this year’s International High-Rise Award (IHA) have been determined. The jury selected five buildings from Asia, Europe and South America from a total of 31 nominated high-rise buildings from 13 countries. Alongside the wealth of aesthetic and technical ideas, the jury also based its assessment of the respective project on its social value as a “good neighbor”, its sustainable characteristics, and whether it featured a good design with a strong future.
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Actis invests in world’s largest integrated renewables and energy storage project in the Philippines
Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has agreed to enter a strategic partnership with Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and its subsidiary, Solar Philippines New Energy Corporation, to invest in the Terra Solar Project, poised to be the world’s largest integrated renewables and energy storage project.
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Transforming urbanization
Urbanization promises greater prosperity for an increasing share of the world’s population. And yet it historically is associated with widened income inequality and degrading the natural environment.
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Actis JV with Mahindra Lifespaces, Ample Parks, launches and makes first acquisition
Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, and Mahindra Lifespaces, the real estate and infrastructure development arm of the Mahindra Group, have formally launched joint venture Ample Parks, an Indian industrial and logistics real estate developer and operator.
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Who are the world’s largest impact capital managers? The 2024 Impact 50 list revealed
The Impact 50 is our proprietary list of the world’s largest managers of private markets impact capital, spanning private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, private debt and other strategies.
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Deka Immobilien sells logistics portfolio in Italy
DIE Italy SICAF S.p.A. managed by IQ EQ Fund Management Limited for Deka Immobilien Investment GmbH has sold a logistics portfolio from the real estate assets of the Deka-ImmobilienEuropa open-ended property fund. The buyer is an international investor. The parties have agreed not to disclose the sale price.
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Making sense of infrastructure debt
The capital expenditure required to support anticipated growth in power demand while also reducing carbon emissions will necessitate significant amounts of debt financing going forward. Don Dimitrievich, Portfolio Manager for Nuveen Energy Infrastructure Credit, explains the evolving infrastructure debt opportunity set and the EIC team’s approach to thematic investing in IPE’s recent July/August 2024 report.
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Fiber-to-the-home: Missed connections? i3 article on navigating the investment landscape
Fiber optic cables, originally developed in the 1950s to allow doctors to view the inside of a patient, are now essential infrastructure that everyone needs to access remote employment opportunities, as well as access to education, healthcare, entertainment and even socialization.
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Actis’ Southeast Asia Renewables Platform Levanta Makes First Thailand Investment With 139MWp Operating Solar Portfolio Acquisition
Levanta Renewables (“Levanta”), Actis’ (a leading sustainable infrastructure investor) renewable energy developer and independent power producer in Southeast Asia, has announced the acquisition of a 90% controlling shareholding in a 139.4MWp operating solar project portfolio in Thailand.
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Listed vs. private infrastructure: Why not both?
Investing in listed infrastructure may provide benefits that make a strong case for a larger allocation to listed markets relative to private investments than is currently observed by institutional investors. At Nuveen, we strongly believe in the infrastructure asset class.