PE, VC: Updated Invest Europe ESG Reporting Template enhances usability and maintains alignment with EU frameworks

• Refined 2025 template enhances clarity, materiality, and operational usability for fund managers and investors, while ensuring consistency and continuity

• Keeps European private equity and venture capital reporting aligned with evolving EU sustainability expectations, market developments

Brussels, Belgium, 13 November 2025 - Invest Europe, the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors, has released its 2025 ESG Reporting Template, strengthening best practice guidance for data collection and reporting on essential ESG matters to investors.

This new version improves user-friendliness and ensures continued alignment with evolving EU sustainability legislation and leading industry initiatives such as EDCI and PMDR, while focusing on what is truly material for investors regardless of sector.

First introduced in 2022 - downloaded over 7,000 times from Invest Europe’s website - and now in its third annual revision, the template offers a voluntary industry framework for ESG reporting at portfolio company, fund, and manager levels.

Designed as a comprehensive solution for ESG disclosures, the template helps managers and investors improve consistency, streamline processes, and enhance comparability across portfolios.

Eric de Montgolfier, CEO of Invest Europe, commented:

“Meeting the highest expectations in ESG remains critical for GPs and LPs in Europe, and a key differentiator for the European private equity and venture capital industry. Invest Europe’s 2025 ESG Reporting Template keeps the industry in line with ever-evolving EU regulation and global initiatives, and at the forefront of ESG best practice.”

The 2025 ESG Reporting Template forms part of Invest Europe’s expanding sustainability library, alongside member guides on climate change, impact investing, due diligence, and human rights. Our goal remains to provide guidance that is practical and operationally relevant, while staying aligned with the changing ESG landscape and the evolving needs of investors and stakeholders.

Learn more about the ESG Reporting Template here.