Tag: Ecology and market economy
Investment strategists criticize eco-focus in the ESG standard
Tesla production in Brandenburg Some active wealth managers are shunning the electric car maker Tesla. They see failings in the area of governance and consider the evaluation of the titles…
Siemens: Sustainability as an existential challenge
Siemens headquarters in Munich The new headquarters, which opened five years ago, is particularly energy-efficient. (Photo: dpa) Munich Siemens wants to enforce more sustainability in its supply chains and significantly…
Signal Iduna founds new life insurer
Signal Iduna flags The company is one of the medium-sized German life insurers. (Photo: dpa) Munich The Dortmund-based insurer Signal Iduna is founding a new life insurer with a sustainable…
The schedule for the new organization for sustainability ISSB is set
The schedule for the project is already in place: “The ISSB will be operational in the first quarter of next year,” announced the former Finnish finance minister and ex-central banker…
Why the EU taxonomy worries SMEs
Brussels When does a company operate sustainably? That is the big question that the European Union is trying to answer within the framework of the EU taxonomy. This is a…
Does the financial industry need more diversity for the transformation?
Financial district in Frankfurt An important signal was heard from the financial sector this autumn. “We banks want to be the driving force in the fight against climate change,” announced…
EU Commission insists on the obligation to re-invest subsidies
Steel industry The EU Commission takes the position that companies to which the state grants aid must partly use it to invest in climate protection measures. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The…
Supervisory boards don’t think sustainably enough
The meeting of the G20 countries and the immediately following world climate summit in Glasgow turned out to be rather disappointing. Binding and ambitious targets to reduce CO2 emissions in…
Organic or conventional – which agriculture do we need?
Dusseldorf Organic is booming: Due to the corona crisis, sales of organic food in Germany rose by 22 percent to 15 billion euros in 2020, according to the industry association…
After Glasgow: Industry calls for international carbon trading
Brussels, Berlin The best instrument for protecting the climate are CO2 markets – most economists and climate scientists now see it that way. Because if CO2 emission rights are traded,…
The economy is concerned about the dispute over sustainable energies
Construction of a gas turbine In view of the coal and nuclear phase-out, new gas-fired power plants are considered to be indispensable. Berlin It is about a single sentence in…
How useful are climate summits really?
Dusseldorf The 26th UN Climate Change Conference is over. The promises made before the two-week negotiations were high: “It is our opportunity to make history,” said EU Commission President Ursula…
Companies have to ring in the green turnaround themselves
coal-fired power station With its new strategy, RWE is focusing on renewables. (Photo: dpa) While the climate conference in Glasgow ended with a massive delay and some dissatisfied participants, the…
The industry is disappointed with the decisions of COP 26
Berlin When Roland Harings, CEO of Aurubis AG, is supposed to evaluate the results of the world climate summit, he first tries to find a conciliatory tone. The intensive international…
Justice ministers want more transparency in electrical appliances
Washing machine The European Ecodesign Directive sets certain requirements for product groups for which energy consumption is particularly relevant – for example, dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators and televisions. (Photo: dpa)…
Is a full circular economy possible?
Dusseldorf Humans extract more than 100 billion tons of raw materials such as oil, gas and metals from the earth every year – but only around nine percent of them…
Green substance instead of green marketing
What can the international financial markets contribute to the urgently needed green restructuring of the economy and thus to the fight against climate change? At first glance, a lot, because…
Nobel laureate in economics and UBS chief economist: Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Donovan in a dispute: “Then the next financial crisis is here”
The Nobel laureate in economics sees the banks as having an obligation on the path to climate neutrality. The chief economist of the Swiss UBS holds against it. .source site
The role of banks in the green transformation of the economy
Extension Rebellion protest The climate activists accuse many financial companies of greenwashing, that is, trying to appear more climate-friendly than they actually are. (Photo: AP) 1. The $ 130 Trillion…
What role the financial sector can play in climate protection
1. The $ 130 Trillion Pledge: The climate-neutral restructuring of the economy is both a risk and an opportunity for the financial sector. 2. Lending: The banks have to look…