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...
Insights Paper: The Role of a UK NIB in a Green Recovery
Last week the UK Government announced the creation of a National Infrastructure Bank (NIB). It is a key next step in the Government’s Green Finance Strategy that launched last year - a strategy that also led to the establishment of the Green Finance Institute. Through...
London Climate Action Week 2020 – Seizing the opportunity for a net-zero world
In the month that Glasgow was supposed to host the UNFCCC COP 26, the Green Horizon Summit brought together leaders from the public and private sectors to explore the pivotal role of green finance in supporting a green recovery and an economy-wide transition to net...
The Green Horizon Summit – The pivotal role of finance
This month was meant to mark the start of the COP26 summit. World leaders had been expected to gather here in the UK to agree the next critical stage in the global response to the climate crisis. Nearly 200 countries would have been represented at the most important...
The UK needs a second green investment bank to help investors decarbonise
A National Investment Bank could make low-carbon technologies more attractive to private investors, argues the head of the Green Finance Institute We often hear there is no shortage of capital to solve the climate crisis, and theoretically this is true....
