By 2030, align financial markets settings, initiatives and leadership with our vision of a sustainable financial system.
The Centre for Sustainable Finance (CSF), established in 2021, is an independently governed charitable trust, working across the financial system to align financial markets settings and initiatives with long term resilience and prosperity.
CSF partners include the New Zealand Government, leading financial institutions, financial services providers, crown entities, and philanthropies.
Our work is anchored in the Sustainable Finance Forum’s 2030 Roadmap for Action, which calls for financing transformation, transforming finance and changing mindsets.
CSF, in partnership with the NZ Government, is developing a sustainable finance taxonomy for priority sectors. A sustainable finance taxonomy is a standardised framework for classifying economic activities according to their environmental performance. This classification system provides investors with the confidence to identify and invest in green and transition activities. Developing a robust taxonomy framework, aligned with those already place in our trading partner’s economies, will help to attract more international capital into Aotearoa New Zealand.
New Zealand has national objectives of doubling renewable energy and doubling the value of exports. Similar to approaches in other countries around the world, the New Zealand Government has partnered with the private sector through CSF to accelerate financing solutions that help cost effectively close the gap between the investment needed to meet national-level objectives and the capital currently flowing into aligned projects.
Read about the blended finance options CSF is developing for Commercial & Industrial fuel-switching.
CSF supports partners and the broader sector to engage on policy and regulatory approaches. We provide specialist expertise on select long-term opportunities, including trans-Tasman alignment on sustainable finance frameworks, enabling institutional investment in private assets, international green economy opportunities and utilising markets and financial system infrastructure to direct capital into long term resilience.
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Read more about the Centre for Sustainable Finance.
Grounded in the Sustainable Finance Form’s 2030 Roadmap for Action.
Learn more about our Board and Executive Team.
Our work would not be possible without the support of our partners.
Financing sustainable growth in Aotearoa New Zealand.
A classification system for sustainable economic activities.
Accelerating financing solutions for affordable, abundant clean energy.
Guidance for SMEs to start sustainability reporting.
Promoting greater options for New Zealand investors
