Securitisation played a central role in the 2008 crisis. Yet it’s been making a comeback, and green finance is getting involved. Here’s why …
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Government publishes green finance strategy: Positive Money response
Responding to the announcement in today's green finance strategy that the government will consider requiring listed companies and pension …
Mark Carney: put your money where your mouth is, unleash green investment now!
Bank of England Action 2019 On Thursday 2nd May, Positive Money staff, supporters and members of the grassroots divestment group Fossil …
Bank of England pension scheme responds to our letter, pledging to report on climate risk
Last week heralded a major breakthrough in how the Bank of England is responding to the risks posed by climate change. Governor Mark Carney …
Major breakthroughs on central banks and climate change
Major breakthroughs on central banks and climate change If we’re going to stop irreversible climate change, we need to decarbonise our …
Stop the RBS sell-off! Sign our petition to Philip Hammond
Today we’re releasing poll results which show that only a fraction of people support the Government’s plans to sell off RBS in the near …
Escaping Growth Dependency, one step at a time
[Technical read.] Positive Money’s report Escaping Growth Dependency, published in early 2018, drew a link between the current …
Should credit be guided? (IIPP)
This blog was originally posted on the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose blog, hosted on Medium. In academic and policy …
New Bank of England research adds to the case against loanable funds
Understanding banks hasn’t always caused such difficulty for economists. In the first half of the twentieth century, theorists like Joseph …