Natixis unveiled its “green weighting factor” (GWF) on 23 September, with the claim that this makes it the first financial institution to monitor and manage the climate impact of its whole balance sheet. Following a recent visit to Australia, Orith Azoulay, global head of the green and sustainability hub at Natixis in Paris, spoke to KangaNews about how the GWF allocates and adjusts financing to deals based on their ‘greenness’.