• Webinar & E-Learning 28 September 2021 The Building Blocks of Residential Green Finance (Webinar) – 30.09.2021 The Building Blocks of Residential Green Finance – the rationale, methodology, and initial results of implementing a successful, international residential green finance program to benefit our citizens, the planet, and a climate-ready banking sector. What key trends are driving the substantial growth in the green finance market? How do homes in a bank portfolio contribute to both ambitious environmental performance and substantial financial risk reduction? What research and evidence is…
• Webinar & E-Learning 13 December 2020 Comprehensive solutions to Energy Poverty (Webinar) – 27.11.2020 A sustainable solution in Energy Poverty now and the future is quality housing coupled with green financing. This SMARTER webinar features different expert viewpoints from sustainable architecture, banking and social inclusion, focusing on SMARTER initiative’s actions in hybrid funding, setting up a municipal platform, financial products and case studies.
• Webinar & E-Learning 9 July 2020 EU Taxonomy & Green Finance Initiatives for Residential projects (Webinar) – 25.06.2020 Our SMARTER discussion features Sean Kidney, the co-founder and CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, an international NGO working to mobilise debt capital markets for climate solutions. Sean focuses on promoting investment priorities for climate and green bonds, how governments can take advantage of the green bonds market and the development of international collaborations. He also acts as chair of the Climate Bond Standards Board (members represent $34 trillion of assets under…
• Tools 14 May 2020 SMARTER Finance for Vulnerable Families The purchase of a new home, regardless of its energy efficiency level, is one of the lowest priorities of low income households. People with limited financial resources are often facing many other basic existential problems and their initiative to acquire new green housing is  low.  Moreover,  most  of commercial banks and other commercial financial institutions consider low income clients a high risk group for any type of loan. However, private initiative from third parties and…