How does a private equity firm improve the environment?

What do you do if you’re a private equity firm interested in improving the environment?  How do you leverage your resources in order to support companies and projects that do good for the world yet still turn a profit?

If you’re Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) you use your vast experience and resources to partner  with companies.  KKR doesn’t just throw money at causes, they utilize their portfolio company management teams to build stronger, better companies.  The companies they work are more productive on “key environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues.”

“The power of partnership I think is the very root of the energy and infrastructure business at KKR,” Marc Lipschultz explained in a KKR video entitled “Partnership in Energy and Infrastructure.” “What’s unique about the KKR approach to energy and infrastructure is the breadth and depth of what we are interested in and what we invest in and at the center… is the notion of being a good partner to the center.