Finance & Sustainable Investment

This briefing paper, Sustainability and Commercial Real Estate, is the result of a collaboration between the Irish Green Building Council and AIB, and it is the first in a series titled Sustainability, Finance and the Built Environment.

The purpose of this paper is to introduce key concepts to investors and developers, in the context of climate risk impacts on both the financial sector and the built environment.

This Framework, developed by UKGBC, provides organisations with a consistent methodology for measuring climate-related physical risks to built assets. The guidance includes detailed information on the physical risk assessment process; a methodology for built asset scale; and a standalone reporting framework that can be used to support the preparation of TCFD disclosure reports.

The CRREM Risk Assessment Tool to identify stranded assets is designed for asset owners and investors to understand the carbon risks inherent in their real estate portfolio. All EU member-states & UK commercial pathways are directly integrated into the tool. Nevertheless, the tool can also be used outside the EU and for residential properties.

Helena Vines Fiestas, Spain’s National Security Market Commissions & EU-Platform co-Rapporteur of Usability & Data Workgroup

Sean Kidney, CEO at Climate Bonds

Julia Backmann, EU Head of Business Legal, Allianz GI

Helena Vines Fiestas, Spain’s National Security Market Commissions & EU-Platform co-Rapporteur of Usability & Data Workgroup

Sean Kidney, CEO at Climate Bonds

Isabelle Lambert, CSR Director at SPIE

Nadia Humphreys, Sustainable Finance at Bloomberg LP

Sean Kidney, CEO at Climate Bonds

This event, held on 22 June 2021, presents New World Bank’s research which shows how biodiversity underpins economies, the health of communities and our planet more generally.

Green Finance – Green Homes

This conference looks at the imperative to fully decarbonise new home building across the full life cycle in order to meet the Paris Agreement.  How can the finance sector help us get there? What impact will the new EU Taxonomy have? What will be the impact of Covid 19 on the design of homes?

 [30 minutes] Expert in energy efficiency and finance in building sector talks about the dynamic nature of EU taxonomy, market acceptance and next steps (9 October 2020)

 [45 minutes] How is the banking sector preparing to adapt to the new context of European Green Deal (one trillion euro), Sustainability agenda and EU Economy? (15 September 2020)

 [40 minutes] Sean Kidney introduces the EU taxonomy at a SMARTER webinar (9 July 2020)

 [12 minutes] Conversation with Michael Sheren, senior advisor at the Bank of England about shifting banking resources to sustainable investment (4 March 2020)

What is regarded as a Green Building under the EU Taxonomy and why does it matter? Read this presentation by Laura Heuston (SustainabilityWorks).

Minister of Finance Pierre Gramegna talks about Luxembourg’s successful efforts in the field of sustainable finance and looks at the priorities ahead. Launched by  UN-convened International Network of Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S)

The European Banking Federation (EBF) and UNEP FI co-organized this online event to launch a report: Testing the application of the EU Taxonomy to core banking products: High level recommendations.

The next phase of housing development in Ireland must consider sustainability principles. Discover how IGBC’s Home Performance Index can enable sustainable housing development and be the tool to unlock green finance.

Presenters: John Fingleton and Johanna Varghese

Green Mortgages for Certified Green Homes

The aim of this presentation is to discuss the commercial benefits for amortgagelender of collaborating with us on an EU funded initiative that aims to drive change in the finance and green certification of new sustainable homes