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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’ – 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...
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...
Industry-created guidelines expected to kick-start market for retrofit passports As the property sector takes stock of its 23% contribution to national carbon emissions and the task ahead to reduce them to net zero, a key tool is emerging to help individual and...
Five councils from England and Wales today announce they have become part of the Green Finance Institute and Abundance Investment’s Local Climate Bond campaign, launched in July this year to drive the adoption of an innovative type of municipal investment. Following...
Global finance and professional services leaders join GHS@COP26 platform to mobilise private capital in the transition to net zero during hybrid event 2-5 and 11 November 14 September 2021 – The City of London Corporation (COLC) and Green Finance Institute (GFI) are...