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Trysha Daskam Smith, Managing Director & Head of Sustainability Risk & Strategy and Jarod Riedl, Associate Director, Silver Regulatory Associates outline recent changes to the Principles for Responsible Investment’s (PRI) 2026 framework, providing firms with essential guidance in advance of the reporting window deadline. 

Henry Philipson, Director of Marketing and Communications at Beringea, provides his insights from SuperReturn Venture. While AI was clearly still centre stage, Phillipson challenges the idea that sustainability took a back seat.

Laura Callaghan, Head of Advisory, EMEA at Novata outlines the importance of using the sustainability data firms collect to quantify impact and demonstrate value across their portfolios. Laura highlights the need to integrate sustainability insights into value creation plans and outlines the pitfalls firms often encounter when attempting to communicate their value.

This report sets out to demonstrate the important role private capital plays in supporting the green transition. Our industry is a natural partner for the Government’s commitment to reach net zero by 2050, possessing deep pools of capital, a wealth of strategic experience and a focus on long-term value generation.

UK Private Capital's new report, Investing in tomorrow: Private capital’s role in the green transition outlines how the industry’s long-term, hands-on approach to ownership, and its emphasis on backing SMEs and scaling innovative businesses makes it a key player in the UK’s sustainability journey.

James Thompson, Managing Director, Sustainability and ESG Advisory at CFGI discusses the difficulties in demonstrating the value in Sustainability and provides insight into the underlying reasons for this challenge. 

Amber Heuvelmans, Associate Director, ESG Advisory at ACA Group provides practical guidance for how Private Market Managers can explore how artificial intelligence can support ESG analysis, reporting, and portfolio oversight.

The Hub maps out existing resources to help firms at every stage of the investment process by clarifying the role, purpose and interaction of existing sustainability frameworks and reporting templates used by LPs, GPs and portfolio companies.

UK Private Capital’s latest Annual Review highlights the wide-ranging issues the association has addressed on behalf of the industry over the past 12 months, as well as detailing how it has supported the development of the industry through events, learning & development and other activities.

The BVCA’s Sustainability Policy Executive, Breeze Haywood, reflects on the outcome of the most recent COP30 negotiations. Breeze highlights the UK’s role in advancing global nature finance and how private capital is well-positioned to help develop innovative finance mechanisms to further mobilise capital at scale.

Clean Growth Fund shares why B Corp Certification matters and offers practical insights from their own certification journey.

UK Private Capital's latest Annual Review highlights the wide-ranging issues the association has addressed on behalf of the industry over the past 12 months, as well as detailing how the BVCA has supported the development of the industry through events, training and other activities.

UK Private Capital's annual ESG survey, now in its third year, sets out a series of metrics which private equity and venture capital firms use to track progress within their investee companies.  

This week, BVCA’s Sustainability Policy Executive, Breeze Haywood, reflects on the outcome of the most recent COP29 negotiations. Breeze highlights the recognition at COP29 of the UK’s influence as a global centre for green finance. As the conference, the Prime Minister positioned the UK as a global leader in tackling climate change. Private capital has a clear role to play in helping to deliver sustainability goals, through work such as that set out in the BVCA’s recent work on impact investing.

Simon Witney, Senior Consultant at Travers Smith shares his insights into the current COP29 negotiations taking place at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. In keeping with this year’s Conference of the Parties (COP) theme on leveraging climate finance, Simon highlights the opportunity for private markets to play their role in supporting the UK in becoming a climate leader.

During a lunch roundtable sponsored by Sweep, the sustainability data management platform, the implications of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) for EU portfolio companies were discussed alongside strategic approaches organisations can take to ensure compliance and bolster transparency across investment portfolios. The lunch was fully attended with a range of different GPs and a good amount of participation and conversation.

Last week, ESG_VC and the BVCA published their annual research into the ESG performance of venture-backed businesses. This year’s analysis delved into data collected from 587 start-ups and scale-ups backed by the likes of Atomico, Beringea, Molten Ventures, and Cambridge Innovation Capital.

In a world increasingly committed to sustainability and social responsibility, BVCA's upcoming ESG Conference is a platform for connecting to discuss how we can drive meaningful change. This pivotal gathering will explore the multi-faceted impact of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria on private capital, policy and practice.

Moving through the lifecycle of a venture capital investment, the profile and priorities of a company will change dramatically. Imagine a university spinout securing its first round of institutional funding – five people and a dog, a WeWork office, and little in the way of corporate structure – and the ESG footprint of the company is close to non-existent.

The rising importance of ESG reflects a global recognition of the interdependence between business success and sustainable practices. Harriet Assem, BVCA Head of Sustainability, sat down with Markus Golser, Managing Partner and Head of ESG at Graphite Capital to get his take on how private capital firms are rising to the challenge.