Tag: Green Finance Institute

Community Municipal Investments can bring the benefits of NS&I-style funding to local government, says GFI and University of Leeds

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Finance Institute (GFI), in partnership with the University of Leeds, today launches new research showing Community Municipal Investments (CMIs) have matured into a credible, scalable and value-for-money addition to the local authority borrowing toolkit. Arranged through Abundance Investment’s FCA-regulated platform and championed by the GFI since first launched in 2020, CMIs are a form of local authority borrowing that enables councils to raise capital directly from citizens and mission-aligned investors to fund local infrastructure and regeneration projects. The paper, “Community Municipal Investments – Bringing the Benefits of NS&I…

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GFI’s CDR Catalyst launches, unlocking £1m in financing in first-of-its-kind British biochar deal

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Finance Institute’s Carbon Dioxide Removal Catalyst (CDR Catalyst) launches today, introducing a new approach to unlocking finance for the UK’s fledgling carbon removal sector. The Catalyst has helped secure a £1m financing agreement from Oxbury Bank, supporting Cornwall-based biochar developer Restord, in a first of its kind carbon dioxide removal deal. Enabled by philanthropic capital to derisk the project from Catalyst founding partner, Terraset, the deal represents the first commercial loan to support a UK based biochar company. Designed to close the commercialisation gap to scale the UK…

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Zapmap and Green Finance Institute report shows resilient demand as UK charging network matures

Stuart Mitchell

Zapmap and the Green Finance Institute (GFI) have published the third edition of their utilisation report, assessing how the public network has responded to the 470,000+ increase in EV drivers across 2025, and providing an updated view of whether the demand from EV drivers has outpaced the increase in supply of public EV chargers.   Covering Q1 2024 to Q4 2025, the report compares observed power delivery against stated capacity and is designed to equip investors, policymakers, and charge point operators with a clearer understanding of how utilisation, efficiency, and on-site…

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Co-ordinated business investment into Nature-based Solutions can reduce economic risk and unlock growth in the face of environmental disruption

Stuart Mitchell

Norfolk and Suffolk, like many regions across the UK, are experiencing increasing economic risk as water scarcity, pollution and flooding disrupt businesses across sectors including agri-food, development, infrastructure, water and energy. Co-investment in nature-based solutions by businesses and local government offers a nationally replicable model that can reduce these risks and unlock growth, A new report from the Green Finance Institute (GFI), Developing Regional Economic Resilience through Nature‑based Solutions: Norfolk and Suffolk, outlines how strategic co-investment in nature-based solutions by businesses and local government can support regional growth plans and…

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Industry partnership opens the door for a universal home upgrade offer delivering benefits of the Warm Homes Plan

Stuart Mitchell

The Government’s recently published Warm Homes Plan announced the establishment of a Strategic Partnership with the green home finance sector to build and diversify the range of green financing options available to homeowners. The Government and the Green Finance Institute today announce the formal launch of the Green Home Finance Strategic Partnership, co-chaired by Martin McCluskey, Minister for Energy Consumers at Department for Energy & Net Zero (DESNZ) and Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE, Chief Executive Officer at the Green Finance Institute (GFI), and supported by Secretary of State Ed Miliband.…

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