Marketplace · Friday, September 25, 2026
A new scorecard report from the Private Equity Climate Risk Consortium reveals that 20 major private equity firms are responsible for an estimated 1.5 gigatons of annual greenhouse gas emissions through their fossil fuel investments. The report aims to inform institutional investors, such as public pension funds and university endowments, about the climate risks associated with these investments.
“And we've found that they produce an estimated 1.5 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions annually through their fossil fuel investments.”
“Um, it's a mixture. So definitely some names that might be familiar to some folks. Um, some of the big diversified firms, like the Carlyle Group, Blackrock, Blackstone.”
“Our main purpose, um, and our main audience here is for the investors in those private equity funds. So those are institutional investors, um, like public pension funds and university endowments.”