Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI) have launched a new green loan product offering a discount of up to 0.5% on loans to homebuilders for developments certified with Irish Green Building Council’s Home Performance Index certification. The HBFI Green Funding Product is the first Irish green financial product fully aligned to the Paris Agreement and EU […]
IGBChats #1 – Green Finance Regulatory Change: Its Impact on the Construction Sector
By Ciaran O’Leary, Head of Sustainability at i3PT Money, money, money …… money makes the world go around. That’s an old saying, which is really applicable to the financial markets. Unfortunately for the sustainability sector, this wasn’t a saying which seemed to apply to them. But along came the ICMA and the Green Bond Principles […]