A Public-Benefit Platform for ESG in Private Markets is Born

Behind the creation of Novata, which aims to solve the “chaos” and “frustration” around ESG reporting. Two senior executives from Novata and Hamilton Lane (one of Novata’s backers) discuss the goals of the consortium, which also includes the Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network and S&P, and why GPs and LPs alike have been searching for a better way to track and quantify ESG data.