Specialist lender Pepper Money has partnered with Ecologi to fund carbon reduction efforts to tackle climate change.
Pepper Money will provide ongoing financial support to Ecologi to fund activities like tree planting and other carbon reducing efforts.
Pepper Money’s chief executive officer Laurence Morey (pictured) said: “We’ve realised we’re at a crucial point within the specialist lending sector where many lenders and brokers are coming to understand the environmental impact our industry has on our planet.
“We have an active role to play to change the way our industry is impacting our environment,” he added.
The lender has already reduced 174 tonnes of carbon dioxide and planted 2,316 trees as part of the partnership.
It has funded a biogas electricity plant in Thailand and fuel-efficient cooking stoves in Honduras.
According to the lender, the carbon reduction achieved is equivalent to 134 long haul flights or 5,222 metres squared of sea ice saved.
The lender does not currently offer green mortgage products, but is looking at it for the future.
Anna is currently the deputy editor for Mortgage Solutions and editor for Specialist Lending Solutions. She has worked as a journalist since 2019, having secured her Gold Standard NCTJ diploma from News Associates in a fast-track six-month course.
She started her career as a report at specialist publication The Insurance Insider covering a wide range of areas before joining Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions in 2021.
In her role, she helps put together and structure the news agenda for the day and writes up press releases, reports, interviews, analyses and exclusives across both titles. She also commissions blogs for Specialist Lending Solutions and hosts online masterclasses and in-person events across the business.
She has been shortlisted for three journalism awards, which include BIBA Journalist and Media Awards Scoop of Year Award in 2020, Headline Money Mortgage Journalist of the Year Award (B2B) in 2022 and 2023.
Prior to being a journalist, Anna worked in ecommerce across Snow + Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need websites, and before that worked at specialist financial PR firm Rostrum.
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