GFI Denmark
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The Green Finance Institute was established in Denmark in 2023, to focus on catalysing investment into the decarbonisation of existing buildings stock. Relying on its extensive experience within green finance space, the GFI offers impartial financial insights and a pragmatic approach to overcoming the financial obstacles and barriers to the green transition.
Within the sectoral focus of the built environment, the GFI is currently focusing on: risk sharing measures in the insurance sector; commercial bank involvement in the social housing sector and municipal retrofitting schemes; and on decarbonising the existing real estate portfolio of Danish pension funds, from an operational and embodied carbon perspective.
Partnerships
GFI has established a strong partnership with the World Climate Foundation, which will work with investors and the wider Danish real estate sector to design, operationalise, and bring to-market financial mechanisms for de-risking and scaling up green real estate investment. This will take place initially in Denmark, but with the potential to scale into Nordic and other European countries – creating the pace and scale required to meet the ambitious goals of the European Green Deal.