Industrial demand response can play an important part in balancing the intermittent production from a growing share of renewable energies in electricity markets. This paper analyses the role of aggregators – intermediaries between participants and the electricity market – in facilitating industrial demand response. Based on the results from semi-structured interviews with German demand response aggregators, ...
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...
This workshop focused on the question, how the financial market can accompany and support the transformation towards a climate-neutral and sustainable economy.
The science is clear: global warming must be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid catastrophic impacts. The Paris Agreement recognises the 1.5C-limit as well. The production of basic materials –cement, iron and steel, paper, aluminium, as well as chemicals and petrochemicals – is one of the main contributors to climate change, accounting for approximately 25% of global CO2 emissions, ...
The Sustainable Finance Platform meets regularly for research meetings to discuss current research topics and projects and their relevance for the political discourse at national and EU level. The aim of the research meetings is an open, informal exchange to promote the discourse on sustainable finance from a research perspective and to cooperate constructively on the basis of our different...
The Sustainable Finance Platform was presented at the Sustainable Finance Summit in Frankfurt.
In line with the continuously carbon-intensive consumption patterns of our societies, the steel, cement and other basic materials still used in end-use sectors and products across our economies entail 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 2/3 of German industrial emissions. To avoid these emissions, material producers and users are proposing a portfolio of options, including clean production...
Internal meeting of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Board of the German government with regard to the current discourse on the Sustainable Finance Taxonomy. The Sustainable Finance Research Platform prepared a first evaluation as input.
The Sustainable Finance Research Platform meets regularly for research meetings to discuss current research topics and projects and their relevance for the political discourse at national and EU level. The aim of the research meetings is an open, informal exchange to promote the discourse on sustainable finance from a research perspective and to cooperate constructively on the basis of our...