Demystifying Utilisation
Success in the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (EVCI) sector to date has been measured by the number of chargepoints being installed, rather than where they are and how they are used. With transportation responsible for 24% of domestic greenhouse gas...
Guide to Investing in the EV Battery Supply Chain
The electric vehicle (EV) transition has potential to grow the automotive battery market to GBP 12 billion in the UK as early as 2025. Growing battery supply chain capacity presents a significant opportunity for a wide range of investors, both those familiar with, and...
Used EV Market: The Key to Unlocking Net Zero
The Green Finance Institute is leading a working group for the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles to explore the role of finance and data in growing the used EV market. As part of this, we undertook research to understand the perceptions towards used EVs in the UK, and...
New roadmap set out for government to unlock private sector finance to supercharge farming transition
Farming, finance, and agrifood expert group commissioned by Defra reveals four actionable steps to rapidly accelerate investment to support a low-emission and nature positive farming transition
UK economy’s nature-related risk to be assessed for the first time
Analysis led by the Green Finance Institute, backed by Defra and the Bank of England, will quantify UK financial and economic risks from exposure to nature degradation
Electric Vehicle Infrastructure: Charging Guide
With any investment or lending decision, it’s vital for financiers to understand the technical and commercial aspects of the sector to evaluate a business plan. As we approach the 2030 deadline for the phase out of the sale of new Internal Combustion Engine (ICE)...
Transition finance: accelerating the EV transition
‘Transition finance’ has a critical role to play in channelling the estimated $35trn of investment needed over the next decade to areas of the economy where transformation is required to reach net-zero emissions. Rather than allocating capital to activities that...
What the Energy Performance Directive changes mean for Finance
The Time Is Now: New Epbd Most Positive Signal Yet For Financial Innovation By Shayna Kowalczyk and James Hooton, Programme Director, Coalition for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings Europe With the release of the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive...
Supercharging green home finance this autumn through the Spending Review and Heat & Buildings Strategy
Green finance cannot thrive in a vacuum: it needs the right conditions to flourish. Juliet Phillips, senior policy advisor at E3G, examines what is needed this autumn to boost the scale and pace of green home retrofits. E3G acts as secretariat for the Green Finance...
Delivering Renovation Plans With Property Logbooks
The RLBA has welcomed the opportunity to work with the Green Finance Institute’s Coalition for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings on the data schema for Retrofit Plans. Our members believe its publication will unlock the necessary service innovation to support the...
Letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer
In September, the Green Finance Institute convened organisations from the UK’s financial sector in support of an incentive to support housing retrofit, sending a letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, calling for an energy-adjusted Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) to drive demand for energy efficiency works and further support the UK’s green home finance market.
Building the skills to make every financial decision a climate decision
Keynote address by Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas, OBE [embed_video] Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time. It presents significant financial risks to business and society, but also offers opportunities for those willing to lead the transition to a...
