{"id":2772,"date":"2011-05-25T17:11:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2011-05-25T17:11:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T17:11:05","slug":"bis-green-bank-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2772","title":{"rendered":"BIS: Green Bank update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Department\u00a0for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has provided an update on the Green Bank, as the UK becomes the first country in the world to create a bank dedicated to the greening of our economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BIS says: \u2018The Green Investment Bank will play a vital role in addressing market failures unlocking significant new private investment into green infrastructure projects. It will work to a \u2018double bottom line\u2019 of both achieving significant green impact and making financial returns. It will also operate independently and at arm\u2019s length from Government, which will agree its strategic priorities.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pages summarising this update can be found at:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bis.gov.uk\/policies\/business-sectors\/low-carbon-business-opportunities\/gib\/detail\" target=\"_blank\">LINK <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For background see IHBC NewsBlog: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1459\" target=\"_blank\">LINK <\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"..\/?p=1459\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bis.gov.uk\/greeninvestmentbank\" target=\"_blank\">www.bis.gov.uk\/greeninvestmentbank<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department\u00a0for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has provided an update on the Green Bank, as the UK becomes the first country in the world to create a bank dedicated to the greening of our economy. &nbsp; BIS says: \u2018The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2772\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}