'Game-changer': Major European banks partner for green mortgage pilot

Madeleine Cuff
clock • 3 min read

BNP Paribas, ING Bank, and Société Générale among the banking giants backing new mortgages offering lower interest rates for most energy efficient homes

A major new pilot scheme is set to roll out across Europe to see if so-called 'green mortgages' - where households get better deals for the most energy efficient homes - are a viable offer for the European...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

Madeleine Cuff
Author spotlight

Madeleine Cuff

View profile
More from Madeleine Cuff

From SEMTA to Enginuity: Engineering skills body rebrands

Inside Enginuity's plan to build a workforce for the future

More on Investment

Maintain momentum or 'back to the future': What next for the Net Zero Banking Alliance?
Investment

Maintain momentum or 'back to the future': What next for the Net Zero Banking Alliance?

The NZBA's decision to cease operations has been described as both 'sustainability backsliding' and a necessary 'course correction' - but what happens now for the organisation and the banking industry's net zero transition?

Stuart Stone
Stuart Stone
clock 20 November 2025 • 13 min read
Octopus Capital raises £100m to fund over 1,000 Zero Bills homes
Investment

Octopus Capital raises £100m to fund over 1,000 Zero Bills homes

Octopus Group asset manager reveals fresh Affordable Housing Fund investment, including £50m from Scottish National Investment Bank

Stuart Stone
Stuart Stone
clock 18 November 2025 • 4 min read
How will the world fund its future? Brazil's push for blended finance in a new era of climate infrastructure
Investment

How will the world fund its future? Brazil's push for blended finance in a new era of climate infrastructure

COP30 offers a chance to harness blended finance, carbon markets and national climate plans to accelerate climate action worldwide, writes AECOM's Robert Spencer

Robert Spencer, AECOM
clock 17 November 2025 • 5 min read