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The Green+ Bond: How EU Sovereign and Corporate Issuers could deliver Green Sovereign Bonds with Social Co-Benefits
Our paper, “The Green+ Bond: How EU Sovereign and Corporate Issuers could deliver Green Sovereign Bonds with Social Co-Benefits”, co-authored with the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute, emphasises the strategic potential for a green sovereign bond with well-defined social and economic benefits to support the European Commission’s new Strategy for “financing the transition to a sustainable economy.”
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Is there an investment case for social and affordable housing in the UK?
In partnership with Property Funds Research and supported by Homes England and Investment Property Forum, we have published a ground-breaking and comprehensive report detailing the investment case for UK social housing.
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Finding hope in crisis: building back better after coronavirus
Building back better has become the new mantra of the impact investing community. In this webinar we explored what building back better actually means and how pension funds, pension holders and asset managers can play an active role in building more resilient societies, economies and financial systems as we emerge from the current coronavirus emergency.
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The role of NABs in responding to coronavirus: examples from Africa and the UK
As part of the Impact Investing Institute’s new knowledge exchange series, this webinar focused on the role of impact investing National Advisory Boards (NABs) in setting up financial support facilities for social enterprises and charities affected by the coronavirus crisis.
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The UK’s Green Gilt: Demonstrating the Contribution to Jobs and Levelling Up
A working paper on the UK’s Green Gilt: Demonstrating the Contribution to Jobs and Levelling Up, co-authored with the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute.
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Press release: We welcome the publication of the UK government’s Green Financing Framework and its commitment to report on the social co-benefits such as job creation and support to SMEs.
The Impact Investing Institute welcomes today’s announcement that the UK’s new green bond framework will include the reporting of social co-benefits, in addition to the environmental impact of green bond expenditure.
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Impact Investing Institute to act as Secretariat for the UK government’s new Stakeholder Discussion Forum on green finance
The Impact Investing Institute is delighted to be a founding member and act as Secretariat for the UK Treasury and Debt Management Office’s new Stakeholder Discussion Forum on green finance.
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Press release: UK government announces Sovereign Green Bond
The Impact Investing Institute, the Green Finance Institute and the LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment are delighted to welcome the UK government’s announcement to issue a Sovereign Green Bond.
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The Green+ Gilt: How the UK could issue sovereign bonds that deliver climate action and social renewal
Together with the Green Finance Institute and the LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, we published a proposal for a Green+ Gilt that emphasises the strategic potential for a green sovereign bond to scale up the UK’s drive to a net-zero carbon economy with well-defined social and economic benefits.
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Press release: Investors with £10 trillion in assets call for the UK to issue a green+ sovereign bond
A UK green sovereign bond would finance the green recovery plans the Prime Minister outlined in his keynote speech this week, creating green-collar jobs across the country.
