Sustainable finance

Specialist expertise. Responsible finance. Positive impact.

Why Guernsey for sustainable finance?

Sustainable finance directs capital towards environmental and social outcomes while delivering financial returns. Guernsey’s sustainable finance offering spans investment funds, banking, insurance, pensions, private wealth and fiduciary services.

Home to the Guernsey Green Fund and Natural Capital Fund regimes, Guernsey has developed specialist expertise in creating regulated structures that support climate transition, natural capital and sustainable investment opportunities.

World’s first regulated sustainable fund regimes

Home to the Guernsey Green Fund and the Natural Capital Fund designations

Code of corporate governance

Includes a requirement to consider the impact of climate change

ESG frameworks

For the insurance and pensions industries

Empowering global resilience

Through reinsurance, humanitarian aid structuring and catastrophe bonds

Why choose Guernsey for sustainable finance?

Guernsey has developed regulated sustainable fund frameworks designed to provide investors with greater confidence in environmental and sustainability-related claims. The Guernsey Green Fund regime was the first regulated framework of its kind using defined criteria and regulatory oversight to support greater transparency and credibility for sustainability claims. This reflects the island's long-standing commitment to sustainable finance.

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has also publicly stated its commitment to supporting the development of sustainable finance and the transition towards a lower-carbon economy.

Sustainable finance in Guernsey spans investment funds, private wealth, insurance and reinsurance, pensions, banking and fiduciary services. This breadth of expertise enables clients to access sustainable finance solutions across a connected financial services ecosystem.

Guernsey engages with leading international sustainability networks, including the United Nations Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) and the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), helping ensure alignment with evolving global best practice and sustainable finance developments.

Guernsey has developed specialist expertise supporting catastrophe risk transfer, insurance-linked securities, climate resilience financing, natural capital initiatives and humanitarian structures that connect capital with real-world environmental and social outcomes.

What problems does sustainable finance solve?

Governments alone cannot fund the transition to a more sustainable, lower-carbon economy, protect biodiversity, build climate resilience or achieve multiple and varied sustainability objectives. Sustainable finance helps mobilise private capital to address these challenges while supporting long-term economic growth and investment returns. 

Sustainable finance objective	What the capital is used for	How Guernsey supports capital deployment
Climate transition	Transitioning to a lower-carbon economy.	Expertise in structures supporting renewable energy, clean technology and low-carbon investment.
Natural capital and biodiversity	Protecting and restoring natural assets and ecosystems.	Home to the Natural Capital Fund designation and related sustainable finance expertise.
Climate resilience	Helping businesses and communities manage climate-related risks.	Specialist capabilities in insurance, reinsurance and catastrophe risk solutions.
Transparency and accountability	Supporting informed investment decisions.	Regulated frameworks designed to support transparency and credibility.
Sustainable investment outcomes	Connecting capital with measurable environmental and social objectives.	Sustainable finance expertise spanning investment and funds, private wealth, pensions, banking and insurance.

Guernsey's sustainable finance frameworks have been developed to support these objectives by providing regulated structures that connect capital with environmental and social outcomes.

Why do people like working with Guernsey practitioners?

“Guernsey enjoys stability in its financial services system and is a hub for several funds domiciled, serviced or managed here, and you have billions in low carbon funds … there’s a lot happening.”

Steven Nolan

Managing Director

FC4S

“We’ve found Guernsey to be a very supportive environment that moves at the pace we want, and we don’t have a second to waste.”

Peter Bachmann

Managing Director

Gresham's House Sustainable Infasctructure Division

“Guernsey is a well-respected, trusted jurisdiction that is considered stable from both the legal and regulatory perspective.”

Orlando Hilton

Investment Director

Resonance Asset Management

“What we thought was very appealing in the Guernsey Green Fund initiative was a clear signature of verification, which was why we chose to register, and why we are very proud to be the first Guernsey Green Fund.”

Jeremy Alun-Jones

Group Chief Operating Officer

ADM Capital

“The Guernsey Green Fund regime makes sure that investors can be confident that the ESG claims that we’re making are legitimate.”

Orlando Hilton

Investment Director

Resonance Asset Management