REACTION: Publish green finance plan, urges UK sustainable finance body
- Climate-neutral target for UK welcomed by sustainable finance industry
- Ministers urged to publish Green Finance Strategy setting out how Govt will secure new lowcarbon investment
- New Strategy should set out how Govt will protect savers from climate risk
London – 2nd May 2019
The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) welcomes the Committee on Climate Change’s report recommending the UK sets a target for net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. UKSIF calls on Ministers not to delay their ‘Green Finance Strategy’, which was due to be published in Spring 2019, and to use it to set out a plan to achieve net zero.