Financing transformation, transforming finance and changing mindsets.
Blended finance, social investment approaches, institutional and flexible
financing arrangements, targeted financial products can all be deployed to address financing gaps. In 2024 CSF will facilitate partners and government to identify financing solutions in key transition sectors and help catalyse demonstration projects and solutions.
This is a necessary stage of transitioning to a sustainable finance system within Aotearoa New Zealand. To develop, enable, and facilitate this transition the Centre has identified several core projects including developing a Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, engaging with the Government on the need for a sustainable finance strategy to mobilise private finance and enabling the transition to a nature positive economy, and enabling Kiwisaver investments in private assets.
A vast majority of kiwi businesses are SME’s, which are vital participants in a nature+ transition given the pace at which they can innovate and change. To support small and medium enterprises, CSF partners will provide accessible guidance that simplifies common ESG disclosure requirements. On the other side, to enable efficiency and effectiveness of solutions, CSF partners will provide guidance for Government and technology providers on the core climate and sustainability data needs of the financial sector supporting these businesses.
Our biennial State of Sustainable Finance report monitors progress toward the 2030 Roadmap and key developments that advance or impede capital flows toward sustainable activities.
In 2024 the Centre formalised an ambitious, innovative partnership agreement with the New Zealand Government to help meet Aotearoa New Zealand’s sustainability aims.
This partnership is a new way of working for the Government that leverages the unique mandate, expertise, and relationships of the Centre to deliver on the priorities of the Minister of Climate Change and the Government, with the Centre’s private and philanthropic partners providing commensurate operational funding.
The overarching aim of the partnership is to catalyse more private finance for sustainable opportunities. The four main agreed outcomes of the partnership, which are informed by international experience on innovation and the Centre’s understanding of rapidly evolving expectations on sustainable finance in New Zealand and internationally, are:
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