Dr. Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE, chief executive, Green Finance Institute on the impact of climate change on the mortgage market
These are her remarks as delivered at the UK Finance Annual Mortgage Conference “Thank you to UK Finance for inviting me to speak today. “I usually like to start these talks with reference to science. “For example, yesterday’s global average atmospheric concentration...
Why it’s time to invest in climate resilient infrastructure
Embedding science into the process of evaluating risk and return is the fundamental premise of green finance, and is at the heart of our mission at the Green Finance Institute. As the latest science points to an acceleration of the impacts of climate change, in...
Dr. Rhian-Mari Thomas Introduces the Green Finance Institute
On 2 July, 2019, Dr. Rhian-Mari Thomas, Chief Executive, Green Finance Institute spoke at the City of London Corporation’s Green Finance Summit about the launch of the Institute. These are her remarks as delivered. “Before I introduce the new Green Finance Institute...
Time for the City to act on climate change is now
As we approach the height of summer, it seems that extreme weather events are again having a damaging and disruptive effect across the world. Europe is currently in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave, with France even going so far as to postpone national school...
The Paradox of Green Finance
Tim Nixon, Chief Communications Officer, Global Head of Partnerships and Policy, Constellation Research. There are two seemingly impossible things happening at the same time. One, on a steady upward curve, investors are flocking to options to incorporate...
Accelerating green finance: Green Finance Taskforce report
In September 2017, the UK Government asked former Lord Mayor Sir Roger Gifford, now chair of the Green Finance Institute, to chair an independent taskforce to accelerate growth of green finance and the UK’s low carbon economy. The Green Finance Taskforce report set...