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Report: The limits of Sustainable Finance
There are high hopes associated with "Sustainable Finance". A sustainable financial system is supposed to steer capital, support the transformation of the economy, and thus help to achieve the Paris Climate Goals. However, our report shows that the financial system...
May 2022 | New videos on the Green Deal as a transformative agenda
The conference “Transforming Europe: The Green Deal in a new context” took place on May 3 + 4 2022. Watch the videos here.
Over 2 days around 60 experts, including European civil society representatives and researchers from different fields relevant for transition, NGOs, think tanks and institutions came together…
Dec 2021 | New Report on Oversized Finance
Our new study shows: an oversized financial sector harms the economy and society. The size of the financial sector in the eurozone has doubled relative to GDP in the last 20 years. The sector is fulfilling less and less of its original function of lending to firms...
Nov 2021 | New Report on Shareholder Orientation of the DAX30
A joint report by OXFAM Germany and Finanzwende shows: companies do not sufficiently consider the interests of society as a whole in their decisions. This leads, for example, to a lack of climate-friendly investments and exacerbates social inequality. The new German...
Nov 2021 | Video of Webseminar on Financialization of Care
Watch the webseminar here Care for the elderly has become a billion-dollar business. Large financial investors are pushing into this area of public welfare and buying up nursing homes all over Europe. Because: more and more old people need care places and more and...
Oct 2021 | Report on Private Equity in Care
find the entire report here When looking at the sometimes detrimental effects of finance on the real economy, we cannot shy away from dealing with private equity funds. In a recent study, we have therefore analyzed the toolbox of these specialized financial market...
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Dec 2021 | New Report on Oversized Finance
Our new study shows: an oversized financial sector harms the economy and society. The size of the financial sector in the eurozone has doubled relative to GDP in the last 20 years. The sector is fulfilling less and less of its original function of lending to firms...
Nov 2021 | New Report on Shareholder Orientation of the DAX30
A joint report by OXFAM Germany and Finanzwende shows: companies do not sufficiently consider the interests of society as a whole in their decisions. This leads, for example, to a lack of climate-friendly investments and exacerbates social inequality. The new German...
Oct 2021 | Report on Private Equity in Care
find the entire report here When looking at the sometimes detrimental effects of finance on the real economy, we cannot shy away from dealing with private equity funds. In a recent study, we have therefore analyzed the toolbox of these specialized financial market...
Aug 2021 | Paper on the Bumpy Road to Recovery
The Covid19 crisis is part of a larger set of crisis dynamics which are likely to dominate the political arena in the years to come. It is therefore all the more important to take this crisis into account and to accept it as a characteristic of the political sphere of...
Feb 2021 | New Policy Papers on the Future of Central Banking
Central banks are key actors for the transformation of our current economic system. Ahead of our conference Next Generation Central Banking, we have therefore published reports on specific aspects of central bank reform and their potential transformative role. The...
Sept 2020 | Report on Climate Impact Induced Crisis in Europe
Climate Impact Induced Crisis in Europe: An Exploration of Scenarios by Dr. Alexander Bisaro, Martin Rokitzki, Alannah Hofemeier How could climate change induce a crisis in Europe during the next decade? Our new Report explores 6 Scenarios of low probability, but high...