Nature degradation could cause a 12% loss to UK GDP – First-of-its-kind analysis quantifies the impact that nature degradation, both domestically and internationally, could have on the UK’s economy and financial sector.
Cross-sector, expert-led natural flood management group commissioned by Defra sets out practical recommendations and a standardised approach to enable the flow of private sector capital into natural flood management projects.
A multi-sector, expert-led Natural Flood Management Strategic Working Group, convened by the Green Finance Institute and commissioned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has today published its final recommendations for the financing of natural flood management (NFM) projects in the UK.
In early 2023, the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), University of Oxford, University of Reading and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), in a project led by the Green Finance Institute (GFI), set out...
Farming, finance, and agrifood expert group commissioned by Defra reveals four actionable steps to rapidly accelerate investment to support a low-emission and nature positive farming transition
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.
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...
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...
A programme of stimulus actions and reforms for the net-zero building and retrofit sectors represents an opportunity to accelerate the UK’s economic recovery in the wake of Covid-19, while delivering a national building stock that can benefit public health and the...
“The work carried out by the Coalition for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings represents a positive step towards achieving our Green Finance Strategy ambition to build the market for green home finance. The proposed demonstrators aim to support the development of...
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...