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...
Banking on Green
Green Bank Design Summit Highlights At a time when there is urgent need for green recovery and sustainable development, an increasing number of countries and regions are designing financial institutions to support low-carbon growth and accelerate the flow of green...
GFI/Pollination Lunch & Learn Series
15 June 2021 Day 1 of Pollination and the Green Finance Institute’s (GFI) Natural Capital Webinar Series, moderated by Alastair Marsh of Bloomberg News. Pollination and the Green Finance Institute (GFI) are delighted to have launched their webinar series yesterday,...
Dasgupta Review: A Pathway for Action for the Financial Sector
The Green Finance Institute convened and consulted with over 40 representatives from banks, asset managers, asset owners, standard setters and conservation finance specialists to respond to the Dasgupta Review’s findings.
Unlocking the potential of the UK’s green mortgage market
Today, homeowners in the UK who are looking for a green mortgage have more options than ever before. Eleven UK banks and building societies have launched green mortgage products since the beginning of 2020, with five of those entering the market in the first four...
New report on local authority retrofit finance
The Green Finance Institute’s Coalition for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings and UKGBC’s Accelerator Cities programme today publishes Retrofit funding propositions, a report that captures the insights and recommendations from a workshop that brought together...
The Dasgupta Review: Next Steps
The Role of Finance in Delivering a Nature-Positive Transition The Green Finance Institute welcomes the publication of the Dasgupta Review today in calling attention to the urgent and fundamental change needed in how we think about and approach economics if we are to...
Annual letter to CEEB members
Dear members, Today marks the first anniversary of the Coalition for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings. We had very high ambitions for this initiative when along with our partners E3G we approached the first half dozen Coalition members just over a year ago. We...
Financing zero carbon heat: turning up the dial on investment
Download the full report here: Financing zero carbon heat turning up the dial on investment Foreword The 2020s were dubbed the ‘decade of action’ for tackling the global climate crisis and delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals. This time last year, few were...