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...
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...
UK retrofit industry must grow 10X to address 23% of UK emissions Heating and powering homes makes up 23% of the UK’s harmful emissions 29m homes must be retrofitted by 2050 to reach goal of net zero emissions - that’s 1m homes each year The retrofit industry, which...
The Green Finance Institute and Abundance Investment, supported by UK100, Local Partnerships and Innovate UK, today launch a national campaign to help local authorities issue a type of municipal finance investment – Local Climate Bonds. The campaign will target all...
London, Tuesday 16 February 2021. The Green Finance Institute’s Coalition for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings (CEEB) today releases a report recommending a new protocol for real-time ‘metering’ of energy savings in UK buildings, and outlining the data points it...
The Coalition for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings (CEEB) – a cross-sectoral collaboration of over 200 individuals, established by the Green Finance Institute with support from E3G in 2019 – today releases Financing zero carbon heat: turning up the dial on...
A coalition between the Broadway Initiative, Finance Earth and the Green Finance Institute lays out Roadmap for Financing a UK Nature Recovery to unlock private investment in nature. LONDON - An alliance of UK environmental and business groups says billions of...
State of Green Banks 2020 report released by Rocky Mountain Institute, Green Finance Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council Green banks have invested over $24 billion in low-carbon technologies to date; 25 countries are actively exploring new green banks...
The Green Finance Institute, Impact Investing Institute and the LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment are delighted to welcome the UK Government’s announcement today at the Green Horizon Summit, to issue a sovereign green bond. We...