Jersey for Sustainable Finance

Jersey offers ESG-focussed managers and investors unparalleled access and speed-to-market for their structures, with skills and expertise to support their sustainable investment, compliance and disclosure needs.

Jersey providers harnessing technology to develop data-driven solutions that allow investors to achieve their aims and measure their impact across a range of asset classes and strategies.

Jersey has a pragmatic but robust anti-greenwashing regime that promotes trust and integrity in ESG investments while offering global interoperability.

With direct access to Europe’s most comprehensive sustainable market segment supporting over £13 bn worth of listings for environmental, social and transition initiatives, Jersey offers an attractive platform for sustainable capital markets.

Jersey is helping to shape the global enabling environment for sustainable finance as a member of the FC4S network and NGFS.

Jersey-domiciled funds managed by signatories to the UN Principles for Responsible Investing (PRIs), with an AUM of over US$ 257 bn (as at June 2022)*

of the top banks by assets surveyed by Jersey Finance in 2021 were signatories to the UN Principles for Responsible Banking.

of assets in Jersey regulated funds are managed under responsible investment policies aligned with the PRIs (as at June 2022)*

of the banking deposits in Jersey (£144.3 bn in Q2) were held in banks that are members of the Net Zero Banking Alliance (as at November 2022), part of a global initiative set up by Mark Carney which seeks to align financial flows to net-zero pathways under the Paris Agreement.

was the carbon intensity of distributed power for 2018/19 in Jersey – that’s one tenth the carbon intensity of the UK grid.

Source: Jersey Electricity 2020

the carbon intensity of jobs in Jersey – that’s around a third of the European average according to EU figures.

Source: PwC Green Jobs Barometer Research UK 2021 and PwC Channel Islands Green Jobs Barometer 2022; Eurostat 2020