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Sustainable Finance Research Platform

Current Project

Department

Climate Policy

Project Period

August 1, 2020 - July 31, 2024

Funded by

Stiftung Mercator

In Cooperation With

University of Augsburg
Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
University of Hamburg
University of Kassel

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The Sustainable Finance Research Platform is a network of five German research institutions. With their independent research, the project partners aim to support stakeholders in politics, the financial sector, and the real economy in understanding and shaping the central role of capital markets in achieving a net-zero economy. 

The researchers involved answer social, political, and business-related questions, provide established and new research findings, and participate in political and public debate. They also want to establish sustainable finance as a topic in the German research landscape and secure connections with international institutes and processes.

Further information on current publications, events and other activities of the Sustainable Finance Research Platform can be found on the project's website. The you can also suscribe to the project's newsletter (in German).

Prior to the current project stage, there has been a project pilot stage funded by Stiftung Mercator and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation,Nuclear Safety, and Consumer Protection (BMUV).

Partner Institutions of the Research Platform

  • April 29, 2020

    Sustainable Finance

    Virtual Conference: German Sustainable Finance Strategy in a European Context

    Speaker: Karsten Löffler, Kristina Jeromin, Anne-Claire Roux, Nikki Rupert, Ingmar Jürgens, Franziska Schütze
    Time: 11:00 - 12:30

    Co-organized by the Sustainable Finance Research Platform (SFRP) and Berlin Seminar on Energy and Climate Policy (BSEC) Sustainable Finance is not only a key element of the climate policy agenda. In times of crisis, like the one we are currently experiencing, sustainable finance can also make substantial contributions to making our financial system more resilient, more sustainable and more ...

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  • April 20, 2020

    Sustainable Finance

    Online-Workshop: TFCD Reporting Standard in Practice

    Speaker: Christian Thimann, Mona Freundt, Frank Sibert, Lukas Simon, Christoph Reißfelder, Timo Busch, Ingmar Jürgens
    Time: 10:00 - 12:00

    In its Climate Action Programme 2030, the German government presented concrete measures for the country to reach its 2030 climate target: a reduction of greenhouse gas levels by 55 percent below 1990 levels. At the same time, the German government officially declared its aim to take a leading position in Sustainable Finance. Hence, the country intends to underpin the transformation to a low-carbon ...

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  • January 17, 2020

    Sustainable Finance

    Workshop on Sustainable Finance and the Transformation of the Real Economy

    Location: Elinor-Ostrom-Saal
    DIW Berlin
    Mohrenstr. 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 09:00 - 14:30

    This workshop focused on the question, how the financial market can accompany and support the transformation towards a climate-neutral and sustainable economy.

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  • December 16, 2019

    Sustainable Finance

    Workshop "Sustainable Financial Products"

    Time: 10:30 - 17:30

    In order to transform the economy towards CO2 neutrality in the sense of the Paris Agreement, financial products are needed to support the financing of this process. In this workshop, existing and possible offers for different product categories (investment products, banking products and insurance products) were discussed, obstacles and problems in the development and introduction of such products ...

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  • November 29, 2019

    Sustainable Finance

    Sustainable Finance Round table and the Transformation of the Real Economy

    Location: Elinor-Ostrom-Saal
    DIW Berlin
    Mohrenstr. 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:00 - 16:00

    This workshop focused on the question, how the financial market can accompany and support the transformation towards a climate-neutral and sustainable economy.

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DIW Berlin is one of five equal partner institutions of the Sustainable Finance Research Platform. In addition, the project team at DIW Berlin is responsible for project coordination and communications in the current project phase (see contact).

DIW research within the project focuses on the interface between the financial and real economy, in particular on instruments of forward-looking sustainability reporting and the assessment of transitory sustainability risks.

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