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Small Modular Reactors: Nuclear Power’s Last Roll Of The Dice?

The debate is currently raging as to whether or not nuclear power should be part of the future low carbon energy mix.  The West’s nuclear building boom of the 1970s is a distant memory and the current fleet of aging reactors have already started to be phased out. This is not universally the case. In…

Difference between Market-based and Location-based Scope 2 Emissions

When reporting on their carbon emissions organisations commonly breakdown their emissions using the scope framework: Scope 1: Direct emissions Scope 2: Indirect emissions from the purchase energy Scope 3: Other indirect emissions In brief: scope 1 relates to emissions which “occur from sources that are owned or controlled by the company” [1], scope 2 relates…

Predicted Highest Selling UK Electric Car Models in 2021

Whilst the traditional UK car market endured a torrid 2020 the EV market soared. Tax breaks for company cars, a greater focus on the environment, and a stream of new models all helped to push the market share of the UK’s BEV sales to record highs of 6.6% in 2020 [1]. But what about 2021?…

Introducing Search My Fund: A New Investment Fund Analysis Tool

“Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied” – Robert Noyce, Co-Founder of Intel (attributed) Our vision at Green Finance Guide is to help mitigate climate change by giving individual investors the knowledge and power to evaluate their own investment decisions. This is especially important when it comes to investment funds, where it is often…

Top Green Finance, Sustainable Finance, and ESG Hashtags

Networking and connections are a big part of finance, as well as many other industries, and Twitter is a key component in the modern communication methods. The simple analysis below is the start of a series of blogs on green and sustainable finance tweets, which we hope will be a useful tool to provide greater…

There’s No Toothpaste For Climate Change: Using Green Finance and Technology Wisely

“The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history” – Niall Ferguson [8] There are many reasons why climate change is a tricky problem to solve: scale of the problem, interrelatedness and complexity of our modern economy, competing interests, high level of collective behaviour change, etc etc. And of course there are…