How Sustainable Infrastructure Can Be Financed at Lower Cost and Reduce Carbon Emissions

For real estate investors and owners, figuring out how to reduce carbon emissions without raising the cost of building new or retrofitting is a major challenge. My guest today, Laura Rapaport, founder and CEO of North Bridge, is leading the way in providing financing that does just that. C-PACE is a long term, fixed-rate credit product secured by a special property assessment, and North Bridge has recently secured a $1 billion commitment from the Carlyle Group to originate C-PACE loans. Rapaport explains how this financing can ensure that resilient and sustainable real estate projects have the flexibility required for completion while reducing carbon emissions and energy consumption and benefiting local economies. All PACE projects to date are expected to reduce carbon emissions by 3 million tons.

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How Sustainable Infrastructure Can Be Financed at Lower Cost and Reduce Carbon Emissions is an episode from The Sustainable Finance Podcast by Paul Ellis.

This episode is 22:46 long.

This episode was published on Jul 6, 2025.

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