Tag: sustainability
Insolvent Hahn airport: is the airport bankruptcy wave coming?
Frankfurt Another German airport is bankrupt. Hahn Airport in the Hunsrück had to file for bankruptcy a few days ago. In February, the management of Lake Constance Airport in Friedrichshafen…
A thousand tips for decarbonization
Berlin No, there is no shortage of concrete ideas for greening the economy in this anthology. And very few would have thought of many of them. Take building material recycling,…
Ronald Cohen wants to revolutionize nothing less than capitalism
Chemical site Leuna According to Cohen, all companies have to measure the impact of their activities on the climate. (Photo: imago / imagebroker) Dusseldorf Saving the world with money. That…
Plea for more sustainability
The transition to sustainable finance is one of the greatest challenges facing the financial sector. That is why the discussion about how we can base our investment criteria on the…
Rock Tech Lithium is apparently planning a Nasdaq IPO
lithium The number of factories for processing the coveted raw material will increase significantly in the next few years. (Photo: REUTERS) Dusseldorf In order to raise enough capital to build…
Blackout horror scenario – how secure is our power supply?
Dusseldorf Imagine everything is dark. The Internet is paralyzed, the railways don’t run, the cell phones go out after a few hours and when the tank is empty there is…
High energy prices endanger the climate change
petrol The majority of cars still have combustion engines and heat their homes with gas or oil. (Photo: REUTERS) Gas prices at record levels, sharply rising electricity costs and increasingly…
Why the best-before date could disappear
Labeled milk Eliminating the use-by date could help fight food waste. (Photo: dpa) Brussels Every year around 80 million tons of food are thrown away in the EU, one fifth…
Firms’ hunger for credit is low
Frankfurt The slack in loans to companies and the self-employed is more pronounced than expected: the KfW development bank has lowered its forecasts in the current KfW loan market outlook.…
Why the banks will only benefit from the green boom in the future
Frankfurt Do good and earn money at the same time. For Bernie Mensah, President of International at Bank of America (BoA), this is not a contradiction in terms. Like most…
Firms’ hunger for credit is low
Frankfurt The slack in loans to companies and the self-employed is more pronounced than expected: the KfW development bank has lowered its forecasts in the current KfW loan market outlook.…
“Sustainability does not work with index funds”
Hans Joachim Reinke “Some providers don’t even know exactly what they’re talking about.” (Photo: Union Investment) Frankfurt According to Hans Joachim Reinke, the greenwashing allegations against parts of the fund…
As an entrepreneur, can you also be an activist?
Dusseldorf When changing to a sustainable economy, many entrepreneurs feel in a bind: On the one hand, transformation processes such as decarbonization reduce profit. On the other hand, there is…
Hempel’s strategy for sustainable growth
Dusseldorf When Lars Petersson, CEO of the Danish paint and coatings manufacturer Hempel, talks about sustainability, he means a lot of things at once. Because the term, according to Petersson,…
If even companies are calling for more climate protection, all alarm bells should sound
Wind turbines Companies are demanding more climate protection from the future government. (Photo: dpa) At the latest when companies demand stricter measures in terms of climate protection, all alarm bells…
Luxury restaurateur Michael Käfer relies on vegan food
Munich Feinkost Käfer: It’s a term like Dallmayr coffee or Beluga caviar – in a class of its own. From the head office in Munich-Steinhausen, the owner of the Michael…
The choice after the choice
Fridays for Future (Photo: imago images / Future Image) Dusseldorf Bernd Ulrich and Luisa Neubauer – a couple that couldn’t be more different. One journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of the…
German money managers according to DWS: latecomers in green investments
Flashing wind turbines Sustainable investments are booming in the financial sector, but they are also increasingly coming under criticism. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Sustainable investing is a hot topic. And not…
Solaredge: Israeli solar start-up displaces SMA
Tel Aviv To see into the future, Ronen Faier takes a look from the window of his office onto the sunny streets of Herzlia, a Tel Aviv high-tech suburb. On…
INTERVIEW: Allianz boss Bäte: “Germany’s business model is at stake”
Allianz boss Oliver Bäte talks about the frustrating election campaign, the problems his house has with hedge funds in the USA – and his possible successor. .source site