Matt Schey, ILPA Senior Director of Sustainable Investing and Strategic Projects, was on the ground in London this week for the Private Equity International Responsible Investment Forum: Europe to share more about how LPs and GPs are working together on tracking, reporting and using ESG data, particularly through conversations at ILPA and involvement in the ESG Data Convergence Initiative (EDCI).
Read more in this recap of the conversation from New Private Markets, When it Comes to ESG, ‘Perfection is the Enemy of Progress’.
Since its launch in September 2021, the EDCI, formerly known as the ESG Data Convergence Project (EDCP), has grown rapidly into an industry collaboration of more than 250 LP and GP participants from around the world, collectively representing $22 trillion in Assets Under Management (AUM) and over 1,800 underlying portfolio companies. Earlier this year, ILPA announced its expanded role as Secretariat to the initiative.
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