Topics
The Sustainable Finance Research Platform aims to support a successful sustainability transformation.
How can financing conditions be created that foster investments in sustainability and promote a long-term restructuring of capital flows? What are the risks and opportunities associated with climate change and the transition it requires? What is relevant sustainability information and how can we make it so that players in the financial and real economy benefit from communicating this information transparently?
Current topics
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
Mit der Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will die Europäische Union einheitliche Standards für Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung etablieren.
„Greenhouse Gas Protocol: Asia-Pacific firms have work cut out on meeting climate-disclosure requirements, executive implementing standard says“
Alexander Bassen leads GHG Protocol’s new Independent Standards Board
Invitation to the WPSF Research Seminar
More than ‘green’ and ‘brown’: How sustainable finance can enable the transition
Publications
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Policy Brief
PB 2/2024: Enhancing Comparability and Credibility of Transition Plans and Transition Risk Assessment with Standardized Net Zero Scenarios
Transition plans by non-financial and financial corporates can fulfill two central purposes: they can facilitate strategic planning towards net zero 2050 while also helping detect…
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Policy Brief
PB 1/2024: Climate Risks and the Cost of Debt: Why Climate Policy Matters
Climate policy is key to achieving the required CO2 emission reductions for the transition towards a sustainable low-carbon economy. Climate policy causes direct and indirect…
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Policy Brief, Sustainability Risks and Opportunities
PB 3/2023: Climate transition plans: State of play in EU legislation and policy recommendations
Company transition plans (of real economy and financial market actors) have the potential to become a steering instrument for directing capital flows toward climate neutrality…
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Policy Brief
PB 2/2023: The role of sustainable investments in the transformation: (further) education as a key element
Sustainable investments can be an important building block in the transformation of the economy and society. There has recently been a growing interest in sustainable…
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Policy Brief, Sustainability Risks and Opportunities
PB 6/2022: The first ECB bottom-up climate stress test: dealing with data gaps and methodological challenges
The ECB’s “SSM Climate risk stress test,” published in July 2022, provides an important step toward integrating climate change related risks into the banking system.…
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