UK Green Finance: An 8-Day Course
How the UK is Funding Net Zero — Institutions, Mechanisms, and Markets
A practical introduction to the financial architecture being built to fund the UK's net zero transition. Over 8 days, walk through the institutions, instruments, and market infrastructure — from the National Wealth Fund and Contracts for Difference to disclosure regimes, transition finance, carbon markets, and natural capital — that channel private and public capital into the green economy.
The Trillion-Pound Gap
The scale of the UK's net zero capital challenge and the architecture being assembled to fund it
15 minutesDay 2The National Wealth Fund as Catalyst
How the UK's National Wealth Fund crowds in private capital for the green transition
15 minutesDay 3Revenue & Risk — CfDs and Merchant Exposure
Contracts for Difference, merchant exposure, and how renewable revenue is structured
15 minutesDay 4The Disclosure Stack — UK SRS and the FCA
UK Sustainability Reporting Standards, FCA rules, and the disclosure regime for green finance
15 minutesDay 5Local Power — GBE and Community Finance
Great British Energy, community finance, and how local energy projects get funded
15 minutesDay 6Transition Finance for Hard-to-Abate Sectors
Financing decarbonisation in steel, cement, chemicals, and other hard-to-abate industries
15 minutesDay 7Verifying the Outcome — High-Integrity Carbon Markets
How high-integrity carbon markets verify emissions reductions and prevent greenwashing
15 minutesDay 8Financing Nature — Natural Capital and the UK's Emerging Ecosystem Markets
Natural capital, biodiversity net gain, and the UK's emerging markets for ecosystem services
15 minutes