Summary: First global Green Bank Network was announced today along with a report examining innovative financing mechanisms adopted by states to spur investments in clean energy.

Over a dozen states have reaped emissions-cutting, job-creating benefits of green banks, and lawmakers are now seeing the massive potential for one at the national scale. As Congress starts working on the massive budget bill that represents major climate legislation in the US, green banks and specifically a national climate bank will to be part of the package.

BY Kevin Mims, — 07/12/2020 The Invading Sea released a series titled “The Business of Climate Change,” which highlights the climate views of businessmen and women ...

The Sun Sentinel published “The Business of Climate Change,” featuring Doug Coward

The Solar Energy Loan Fund was mentioned by John Oliver in his June 21 segment on Last Week Tonight about home renovation loans. Oliver explained the PACE lending program as a “cautionary tale, about how good intentions, when not paired with careful, smart design, can end in disaster.” In the segment, John Oliver berated the current PACE lending system as “fundamentally flawed” and offered positive alternatives such as SELF.

WJCT reports on how the Solar Energy Loan Fund and their CFO's, Duanne Andrade, contributed to the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee and their efforts to create a national “climate bank” to rise to the challenge of our time: climate change.