The Financing Nature Recovery UK Recommendations and Roadmap Report lays out a plan to drive private investment into nature and create environmental markets to help fill the annual £5.6 billion financing gap for UK nature recovery.
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Powering the Drive to Net Zero: Unlocking Public and Private Capital for the UK Battery Sector
Established by the Green Finance Institute in January 2021, the Coalition for the Decarbonisation of Road Transport (CDRT) brings together an expert multi-stakeholder group focused on identifying the most promising market solutions to scale up the investment in...
Financing net zero: unlocking investment opportunities, supporting local transition
Last year, the UK Government’s Net Zero Strategy outlined that of all UK emissions, 82% are within the scope of influence of local authorities, underscoring the transformative role local governments could play in achieving national net zero ambitions. But unlocking...
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...
Launch of new UK initiative to help mobilise private investment into nature
GFI Hive will share technical knowledge on investing in nature to help meet the UK’s net zero and nature-positive ambitions, identifying barriers and co-designing solutions for scalable and replicable private investment in nature.
Green Finance Institute launches Green Mortgage hub
The UK’s housing stock is one of the oldest in Europe. Approximately 20% of our homes were built pre-1919, 85% use a gas boiler for heating, and approximately 50% have uninsulated walls, according to the UKGBC’s Whole-Life Carbon Roadmap. The UK Climate Change...
Coalition to tackle European building renovation financing launched today
EU built environment has the largest climate investment gap of any sector Europe’s building sector is responsible for 40% of energy consumption, more energy than any other sector, and account for 36% of the EU’s energy-related GHG emissions[1]. 97% of Europe’s...
CDRT Report | Road to Zero: Unlocking public and private capital to decarbonise road transport
Established by the Green Finance Institute in January 2021, the Coalition for the Decarbonisation of Road Transport (CDRT) brings together an expert multi-stakeholder group focused on identifying the most promising market solutions to scale up the investment in...
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...
Finance Gap for UK Nature Report
The Green Finance Institute commissioned environmental economics consultancy, eftec, to identify the finance gap across the UK to achieve nature-positive outcomes in order to assess the need for private investment.
Green Finance Institute launches ‘Lender’s handbook on green home technologies’
Green Finance Institute launches ‘Lender’s handbook on green home technologies’ – a comprehensive guide to inform financial institutions and industry about retrofit technologies and funding options Unlocking the private finance needed to decarbonise the UK’s 29...
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...