The world of sustainable finance, green finance, green bonds, sustainable loans is moving fast. No matter whether you’re in Treasury, project finance, business lending, developers, investors, or heads of sustainability, it’s hard to keep up. So here are our top three reads released over the last few months.
Financing Transformation: A guide to Green Building for Green Bonds and Green Loans: Launched on 27 June as part of London Climate Action Week, this new global guide to sustainable finance is hailed as an essential tool to kickstart the US$35 trillion investment needed by 2030 to achieve the global energy transition. With input from NZGBC’s Andrew Eagles and Sam Archer, it was produced by an international alliance that includes the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA0, the UKs Building Research Establishment (BRE), the US Green Building Council (USGBC), the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC), Alliance HQE-GBC in France, GRESB, the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), and the Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor (CRREM).
Click through for details how various building verification and certification standards can be used to comply with financial classifications and bond frameworks, in line with a 1.5°C climate threshold.
Unlocking the value: A practical guide for sustainable finance in the Australian real estate sector: walk through the various sustainable finance instruments currently being used, and how they apply to the property market. Developed by Green Building Council of Australia in partnership with the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute, this guide aims to build a deeper understanding of sustainable finance, especially in the Australian real estate sector, with the hope that it will drive a rapid uptake of sustainable finance mechanisms.
Guidance on Green Building Ratings for Sustainable Finance: developed by the NZGBC in consultation with DLA Piper and the New Zealand financial services and property industries, this guide provides a starting point for investors, developers with assistance in defining what is a green building for the purpose of sustainable finance and enables focusing on high performance over time.
What's next?
There’s plenty more to come in this space.
Join us at 4pm on Monday 16 September for a fireside chat on global developments in sustainable finance, what they mean for New Zealand and a progress update on development of New Zealand’s own taxonomy, with Daniel Street and Rachel Brown of DLA Piper, Jo Kelly from the Centre for Sustainable Finance, and Dean Spicer from ANZ.
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