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Sustainable finance
Climate change, migration, progressing digitalisation and establishment of social standards: these current global challenges require sustainable development from politics, society and business. This upcoming transformation process will also have a strong impact on capital markets. Which aspects are key for sustainable finance? What type of framework and structures are needed? And which initiatives are driving the subject?
Financial markets will only become sustainable if key players join forces. This is why Deutsche Börse has launched two sustainability initiatives in close cooperation with other stakeholders.
Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany
In its current baseline report, the Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany has examined the status quo of sustainable financing in Germany. On this basis, the cluster has defined four action fields serving as a starting point for concrete projects.
At the European level, the cluster is actively involved in shaping the sustainable development process: it supports the implementation of the EU Commission’s sustainable finance action plan and is a member of its Technical Expert Group.
Kristina Jeromin, Head of Group Sustainability at Deutsche Börse Group, and Karsten Löffler, Co-Head Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance, manage the cluster’s business on equal terms.
The cluster is organised as an association. Current sponsors are BNP Paribas Germany, Commerzbank AG, DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Börse AG, DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Helaba, KfW Bankengruppe and Metzler Asset Management GmbH. The cluster’s headquarter is located at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
In 2017, Deutsche Börse, together with major players in the financial centre of Frankfurt, launched the former Accelerating Sustainable Finance initiative. In this connection, the participants signed the “Frankfurt Declaration”, a joint declaration of intent to build sustainable financial sector infrastructures. The signatories of the Frankfurt Declaration support the new Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany.