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  • Caldecott appointed senior advisor to UK Green Finance Institute

    20 August 2019

    Ben Caldecott has been appointed senior advisor to Rhian-Mari Thomas, the CEO of the UK’s Green Finance Institute.

  • Members of UK taskforce on greening supply chains announced

    19 July 2019

    The members of the UK's Global Resource Initiative (GRI) taskforce have been revealed, as they met for the first time to discuss how the country can green its international supply chain.

  • UK Green Finance Institute 'to boost catastrophe bonds and green mortgages'

    02 July 2019

    Scaling up the catastrophe bond market and the issuance of green mortgages will be among the priorities for the UK's Green Finance Institute, which was officially launched today.

  • Barclays' Rhian-Mari Thomas to lead UK Green Finance Institute

    15 May 2019

    Rhian-Mari Thomas, global head of green banking at Barclays and chair of the bank's Green Banking Council, has been selected to be the first CEO of the UK's planned Green Finance Institute.

  • Corporate green bond issuers 'should have transition strategies'

    07 March 2019

    Investors should base decisions about whether to invest in corporate green bonds on their issuer's forward-looking and low-carbon transition strategy, said panelists at a conference of NGO Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).

  • People Moves: Barclays, Mirabaud Asset Management and Quaero Capital

    07 September 2018

    Barclays has expanded its green banking team with a new employee and an appointment. Victoria Land (maiden name Clarke) will lead debt capital markets origination in socially responsible investing (SRI) and green bonds as director from November. Rhian-Mari Thomas has been appointed as global head of green banking.

  • Steering group for Green Finance Institute announced

    16 July 2018

    A steering group has been assembled to guide the launch of the UK's Green Finance Institute.

  • UK should 'go beyond TCFD' and lead world in disclosure, say industry leaders

    28 March 2018

    An industry taskforce has urged the UK Government to boost the growth of green finance by enforcing the voluntary recommendations of the FSB's Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) in law.

  • "Never say never" to UK sovereign green bond, says minister

    06 February 2018

    The UK's Minister for Energy and Clean Growth has raised the hopes of the country issuing a sovereign green bond from the country, as a government-mandated taskforce looks set to recommend the move.

  • UK bids to consolidate 'leadership' in green finance

    18 September 2017

    The UK government has announced a taskforce of senior financiers to help accelerate the growth of green finance – a field in which it claims the UK already enjoys global leadership.