Could mortgages help homeowners foot the bill for climate resilience upgrades?

Stuart Stone
clock • 8 min read
Credit: iStock
Image:

Credit: iStock

More than half of renters and outright owners would favour using a mortgage to fund shading, cooling, insulation, ventilation and solar panels to better protect their homes against extreme weather, fresh research has found

Could mortgages offer a key solution for helping homeowners to finance not just energy efficiency and clean power upgrades, but climate resilience measures too? Currently, ‘green mortgages' are largely...

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

Stuart Stone
Author spotlight

Stuart Stone

View profile
More from Stuart Stone

Study: 'Lengthy' heat pump planning process has cost UK households £8m since 2015

UN: World now all but certain to 'overshoot' critical 1.5C global warming threshold

More on Climate change

'Delay is not a neutral act, it is a decision': Green figures react to UN's 1.5C 'overshoot' warning
Climate change

'Delay is not a neutral act, it is a decision': Green figures react to UN's 1.5C 'overshoot' warning

Politicians, business leaders, economists, and climate campaigners offer their take on UNEP's report warning the world is now all but certain to 'overshoot' the 1.5C global warming threshold

BusinessGreen staff
BusinessGreen staff
clock 02 September 2026 • 14 min read
UN: World now all but certain to 'overshoot' critical 1.5C global warming threshold
Climate change

UN: World now all but certain to 'overshoot' critical 1.5C global warming threshold

UNEP sets out 'best-case' scenario of 1.8C for global average temperature rise, but maintains world can still limit, adapt to, and eventually reduce warming to or below 1.5C threshold in future

Michael Holder
Michael Holder
clock 02 September 2026 • 8 min read
Met Office confirms summer 2026 was UK's hottest on record
Climate change

Met Office confirms summer 2026 was UK's hottest on record

Provisional data suggests the past summer has seen the warmest temperature since records began in 1884 in the UK, with the record heat 130 times more likely to have occurred due to human-induced climate change

Amber Rolt
clock 01 September 2026 • 3 min read