Green Bank Network Knowledge Center

Resilient Communities and Affordable Energy: Charting Roles for Community Finance

February 4, 2026 White paperGeneral green banksImpact measurement & reporting

Resilient Communities and Affordable Energy: Charting Roles for Community Finance presents a comprehensive review of how green banks, community development financial institutions, and other community lenders are managing the recent federal pullback from climate finance.

The State of Green Banks 2025: Learnings from Green Financing Structures Around the World

May 19, 2025 ReportImpact measurement & reporting

The State of Green Banks 2025 presents a comprehensive review of financial institutions designed to overcome key barriers to private capital mobilization for climate-aligned investments, including high perceived risk, information asymmetries, and policy misalignment.

Adaptation and Mitigation: How Green Banks Address Twin Finance Goals

September 25, 2024 Video

This event had two panels that showcased how the green bank model of using limited amounts of public funds to mobilize, leverage, and complement private investment can be instrumental in meeting mitigation and adaptation financing needs. Speakers discussed how green…

Green Banks: Catalyzing an Equitable Green Transition

October 3, 2023 VideoNew York Green Bank

The event focused on how green banks can help crowd in additional investment in underserved communities. Panelists discussed how green banks can partner with communities, impact investors and other financial institutions to scale an equitable green transition, as well as…

Green Banking at Scale

October 4, 2022 VideoRhode Island Infrastructure Bank

Speakers explore the impact of the green bank model globally at the city, state, and national levels and how green banks help advance both climate and equity goals. The event highlights the potential role and impact of a U.S. national…

Green Banks and Economic Recovery

October 1, 2020 VideoTata Capital Limited – Cleantech Finance (India)Solar, Energy efficiency

A discussion on how green banks and catalytic green financial institutions around the world are responding to the challenges and opportunities of economic recovery.

CEFC Investment Insight: Clean Energy and Community Housing

May 1, 2020 ReportAustralia Clean Energy Finance CorporationSolar, Energy efficiency

In this Investment Insight, CEFC details how the application of readily available technologies and thoughtful design is delivering homes that need less energy, produce lower emissions and provide improved comfort levels for tenants. Australian households are directly responsible for about…

Tata Cleantech Capital Limited: Driving Green Investment in India

December 1, 2019 ReportTata Capital Limited – Cleantech Finance (India)Solar, Energy efficiency

Tata Cleantech Capital Limited (TCCL) recently joined the Green Bank Network. TCCL is a joint venture, operating since 2013, owned 79.5 percent by the Tata Group, a major conglomerate headquartered in India, and 19.5 percent by the International Finance Corporation…

Mobilizing $1 Trillion Towards Climate Action: An Analysis of the National Climate Bank

September 1, 2019 ReportGeneral green banksImpact measurement & reporting

The National Climate Bank Act introduced in the U.S. Senate on July 8, 2019, establishes an innovative new financial institution as a standalone, independent nonprofit organization known as the National Climate Bank (Climate Bank). Its mission is to reduce greenhouse…

Using Opportunity Zone Tax Benefits to Catalyze Green Projects in Distressed Communities

September 1, 2019 ReportGeneral green banksSolar, Energy efficiency

As part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress created a new tax regime for investments in “qualified opportunity zones” (QOZs). The idea behind QOZs is to encourage private investments in economically distressed communities by giving tax benefits…

Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank: A Green Bank with Shades of Blue

July 1, 2019 ReportRhode Island Infrastructure BankSolar, Green bonds, Energy efficiency

RIIB has a somewhat broader environmental focus than traditional green banks. Green banks typically seek to catalyze private investment in clean energy or energy efficiency projects, using such techniques as credit support, subordinated debt and equity investments, aggregation and securitization…

Case Study: Development Bank of South Africa's Climate Finance Facility

June 1, 2019 ReportGeneral green banks

The Development Bank of Southern Africa’s (DBSA) Climate Finance Facility (CFF) is a specialized lending facility designed to increase private investment in climate-related infrastructure projects in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, which faces significant climate mitigation and adaptation…

Green Banks in the United States: 2018 Annual Industry Report

May 1, 2019 ReportRhode Island Infrastructure BankWind, Solar, Impact measurement & reporting, Green bonds, Energy efficiency

The first annual report of the American Green Bank Consortium covers the period through the year 2018. The green bank impacts presented in this report are the result of information gathering performed by the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC). Key…

Sharing Solar Benefits: Reaching Households in Underserved Communities of Color in Connecticut

May 1, 2019 ReportConnecticut Green BankSolar, Energy efficiency

The Connecticut Green Bank’s low-to-moderate income (LMI) focused solar PV programs have had a significant impact on solar penetration in Connecticut’s historically underserved and under-resourced communities. Solar PV adoption in LMI census tracts is now higher than solar penetration in…

Aggregation and Securitization

April 1, 2019 ReportRhode Island Infrastructure BankBioenergy

Green banks employ a variety of strategies to unlock capital and drive investment into clean energy projects. Green bank investment strategies have included participating in projects at the development phase, or under new regulatory regimes, with an eye toward spurring…

Bioenergy and Resource Recovery

March 1, 2019 ReportGreen Finance Organisation (Japan)Bioenergy

This paper discusses different green bank approaches to financing projects in the bioenergy and resource recovery sectors. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the technology and present examples of successful projects to share lessons learned…

The Multiple Roles of State Investment Banks in Low-carbon Energy Finance: An Analysis of Australia, the UK, and Germany

February 1, 2019 ReportGreen Investment Group (United Kingdom)

Low-carbon energy technologies (renewable energy and energy efficiency) are considered essential to achieve climate change mitigation goals, so a rapid deployment is needed. However there is a significant financing gap and many policymakers are concerned that investment for the large-scale…

Program Related Investments: Alternative Sources of Green Bank Investment Capital in the United States

February 1, 2019 ReportNew York Green Bank

Green Banks have traditionally used public sector capital to leverage increased private sector investment. The collective capital formation driven by that intersection has been impressive, but the pace of climate change is driving the need to expand the investment capital…

Green Banking Strategies for Local Governments

December 1, 2018 ReportGeneral green banksSolar, Energy efficiency

Green banks are financial institutions that can leverage public funding to attract private capital for clean energy projects (including energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other distributed energy resources), as well as other “green” investments. They can help both states and…

Green Banks: The Role of Public Sector Banks for Catalyzing Private Sector Investments

November 25, 2018 VideoGeneral green banksSolar, Energy efficiency