The Centre for Sustainable Finance: Toitū Tahua works closely with the New Zealand government, and financial institutions to facilitate and accelerate whole-of-system changes, nationwide.
The Centre for Sustainable Finance: Toitū Tahua (CSF) is an independently governed charitable trust founded in 2021. We partner with the New Zealand government, philanthropies and financial institutions to catalyse and accelerate finance for long term resilience and sustainability.
Our work is anchored in the Sustainable Finance Forum’s 2030 Roadmap for Action, which calls for financing transformation, transforming finance and changing mindsets.
The majority of KiwiSaver investors have long investment horizons but they have little option to take advantage of this by way of investing in private markets. This means many New Zealanders aren’t benefitting from investment options that can provide potentially higher financial returns and may also bring long-term positive environmental, social, and economic outcomes. The Centre for Sustainable Finance: Toitū Tahua is working to change this, click through to learn more.
In 2023 the Centre for Sustainable Finance: Toitū Tahua (CSF) published its Investing in Private Assets Recommendation Paper which provides recommendations for KiwiSaver managers, and government, to reduce the barriers preventing KiwiSaver funds from investing in private assets which may provide higher financial returns and also bring long-term positive environmental, social, and economic outcomes.
In 2023-2024, CSF convened an Independent Technical Advisory Group (ITAG) to develop key design recommendation for the Aotearoa New Zealand Sustainable Finance Taxonomy (NZ Taxonomy). The resulting recommendations report, covering ten key topics, was presented to the Minister for Climate Change and made public in July 2024.
Based on these recommendations CSF, in partnership with the New Zealand Government, began work in late-2024 to develop a NZ Taxonomy, beginning with climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience criteria for the agriculture and forestry sectors.
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