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Online Launch Event of Policy Report “Financing the green transition: Increasing bankability, phasing out carbon investments and funding 'never bankable' activities"
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Invitation: Policy Report Online Launch Event
Financing the green transition: Increasing bankability, phasing out carbon investments and funding ‘never bankable’ activities
Monday 30.06.2025, 11:00 (CET), via Zoom ( please register here ).
The Witten/Herdecke University and the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) invite you to the upcoming launch of the policy report entitled “Financing the green transition: Increasing bankability, phasing out carbon investments and funding ‘never bankable’ activities”.
In the report, whose underlying research was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), the authors ask how policymakers can strengthen sustainable and climate-friendly investments – while effectively ending climate-damaging financial flows. They analyze and propose financial policy instruments that pave the way towards the EU’s net-zero GHG-emissions target for 2050, from increasing the bankability of green activities to promoting economically not bankable but societally necessary activities as well as policies phasing out carbon-intensive investments.
The report will be commented on by Silke Stremlau, former chairwoman of the German government’s council for Sustainable Finance. Subsequently, there will be a discussion moderated by Jan Schulte, free journalist and author of various articles on Sustainable Finance (e.g., for Berliner Tagesspiegel, DIE ZEIT and WirtschaftsWoche).
We are very much looking forward to seeing you and discussing the policy report together.
The report was authored by
Prof. Dr. Joscha Wullweber, Nicolás Águila, Janina Urban, Simon Schairer, Paula Haufe and Riccardo Baioni (Witten/Herdecke University),
Dr. Florian Kern and Sophie Progscha (Institute for Ecological Economy Research, IÖW)
Media contact:
Richard Harnisch Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) Tel.: +49–30–884 594-16 presse@ioew.de
The Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) is a leading scientific institute in the field of practice-orientated sustainability research. Around 60 employees develop strategies and approaches for a sustainable economy – for an economy that enables a good life and preserves the natural foundations. The institute works on a non-profit basis and without basic public funding. The IÖW is a member of the Ecological Research Network (Ecornet), the network of non-university, non-profit environmental and sustainability research institutes in Germany.
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