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.
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
Kerstin Lopatta appointed to the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Board
Publications
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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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Policy Brief, Sustainability Reporting, Sustainability Risks and Opportunities
PB 5/2022: Standardized stress test scenario can improve climate risk reporting
More and more countries, regions, cities, companies, and financial institutions are defining climate neutrality as a strategic goal. So far, however, it is not possible…
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Policy Brief, Sustainability Reporting
PB 4/2022: Key observations about the open EU consultation on the functioning of the EU ESG ratings market
The European Commission has launched a consultation on the functioning of the ESG ratings market in the European Union and on the consideration of ESG…
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