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Establishing a Green Investment Bank: What are the major challenges and opportunities?
Establishing a Green Investment Bank: What are the major challenges and opportunities?
06:15 p.m. (BST) / 01:15 p.m. (EDT)
30th June 2010
All 2degrees members working group
Fiona Harvey, Financial Times (Chair); Bob Wigley, Chairman, Green Investment Bank Commission; James Stewart, Chief Executive, Infrastructure UK; Peter Young, Chairman, Aldersgate Group; Nick Mabey, Chief Executive, E3G; Tom Daley, CEO, Carbon Trust
A Green Investment Bank (GIB) represents a potentially ground-breaking institution for the UK. Hosted by the Aldersgate Group and Green Alliance, this event will involve some of the foremost thinkers and organisations who have been developing the idea and who have led the debate in this field.
A well designed GIB could be vital in facilitating and accelerating private sector investment in support of the country’s carbon emission reductions and renewable energy targets as well as in creating jobs for the British economy.
The debate will address key issues and questions going forward including: what are the financing barriers that a GIB could effectively address? How broad should its remit be? How much capital is required and how should this be generated?