With green finance increasingly becoming a topic of interest for
fund managers and their investors, Kees Jager, head of funds in
Guernsey, shares more on how Guernsey is going green with the
Guernsey Green Fund.
Guernsey as a jurisdiction made a strategic commitment to green
finance within the Financial Services Policy Framework in 2018. The
newly formed Guernsey Green Finance, a member of the United
Nations' Financial Centres for Sustainability network,
alongside many of the world's leading financial centres, showed
that Guernsey is now putting a real focus on supporting
sustainability initiatives.
Subsequently, The Guernsey Financial Services Commission (the
GFSC) launched The Guensey Green Fund (the Green Fund), a global
first in providing green accreditation to a regulated fund. The
Green Fund enhances investor access to the green investment space
by providing a trusted and transparent product that contributes to
the internationally agreed objectives of
