A new key biodiversity platform for cross sectoral collaboration
For its inaugural launch, World Biodiversity Summit will help define what world leaders and the private sector in biodiversity and climate action need to do in the medium and long term to achieve sustainable development and hinder further biodiversity loss, focusing on partnerships and investment mechanisms as levers of progress. World Biodiversity Summit is a platform for responding to accelerating biodiversity loss, by using the Paris Agreement as a framework to learn from, promoting relevant solutions, innovations, and leadership networks, strengthening nature restoration and conservation. Nature-based solutions will be highlighted, from specificecosystems to global possibilities.
First year tracking of the Danish pension fund commitment towards USD50 billion in green investments by 2030
Insurance & Pension Denmark CEO, Ken Damsgaard reported that Danish pension funds have invested $8 billion in green projects since the 2019 Climate Action Summit in New York. This far exceeds earlier expectations and could lead to Danish pension funds reaching their $50 billion green investment target three years ahead of schedule.
UK Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure - Zouk Capital LLC
Investing in the growing Electric Vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure network in the UK via a 10-year closed-end fund. As a result of the UK governments carbon reduction targets (obligation to be carbon neutral by 2050) and the evolution of the car buying market (ban on new petrol or diesel cars sold in the UK from 2035), there is a considerable opportunity and first mover advantage in providing quality well-located EV charging stations across the country.
ASSET CLASS
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Infrastructure - Green Energy
GREEN DIMENSIONS
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Transmission & distribution
and Transportation
CONTACT
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Douglas Crawshaw (London)
Senior Investment Consultant. Willis Towers Watson
Douglas.Crawshaw@willistowerswatson.com
Norris Latshaw
Principal, Head of Investor Relations & Fundraisingn
Willis Towers Watson
VALUE IN US DOLLARS
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Target fund size of $520m (£400m) and $650m hard cap (£500m) with our clients expected to invest >$130m (£100m) (using 1.3 GBP to USD)
EXPECTED MATURITY
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10-year closed-end fund
LINKS
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Read more of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure project
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION
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United Kingdom
FORM OF FUNDING
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Equity commitment
PARTNERS
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Zouk Capital LLC
InstaVolt
Liberty Charge