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„Closing the gaps. Integrating Sustainability in the Core Business of Financial Institutions”.

Roundtable in Eltville: 01 – 02 December 2016, Hosts: UNEP FI, VfU and Deutsche Bundesbank 

Together with this year’s host Deutsche Bundesbank, UNEP FI and VfU set up a roundtable for the twelfth time on 1stand 2nd December 2016. More than 150 representatives of the banking and insurance sectors, politics, sciences and numerous NGOs took part. This year, the event’s motto was „Closing the gaps. Integrating Sustainability in the Core Business of Financial Institutions”.

WWF Germany and we presented our project “Transition-adequate Banking”. It is our goal to create an easy to apply approach to assess and evaluate the 2°C-compatibility of companies. This approach improves the process of determining the financial impacts of climate related risks and opportunities and enables banks to intensify contacts with credit receivers.

Launch of De-risking Energy Efficiency Platform (DEEP)

Introduced in Brussels 30 November 2016

As a member of EEFIG (Energy Effiency Financial Institutions Group), we were delighted about the official launch of the largest pan-EU database for energy efficiency projects: De-risking Energy Efficiency Platform (DEEP). This database contains detailed information and analysis of over 7,800 industrial and buildings related energy efficiency projects. DEEP was realised as a cooperation between EEFIG, the European Commission and UNEP FI.

„How much is the world? Climate protection investments in buildings – between risk prevention and performance management”

BMUB and DENEFF Conference in Berlin: 29 November 2016 

Dr. Nicole Röttmer, CEO of The CO-Firm gave a speech at the joint conference of Finanzforum Energieeffizienz and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety. The topic of her speech was climate protection for commercial properties. What is more, The Co-Firm, together with DENEFF, organised workshops in which ideas to increase investments in climate protection measures are collected and discussed. The welcoming speech of the conference wasbe held by Federal Minister Dr. Barbara Hendricks (BMUB), followed by Caio Koch-Weser, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the European Climate Foundation.

“Modelling the macroeconomic consequences of climate change action”

The CO-Firm at OECD’s inaugural meeting of the Green Action Programme 24 – 25 November 2016 in Paris

Since the early 1990s, the OECD has supported primarily Eastern European, Caucasian and Central Asian countries in reaching economic growth while at the same time taking the protection of the environment into account. Based on the results, the Green Action Programme continues this work. The aim of this meeting in Paris was to provide insights on the near and long-term macroeconomic impacts of climate mitigation and adaptation actions across different G20 economies. With our presentation “Company- and sector-level financial risks and opportunities in the transition to (well below) 2°C” we contributed to OECD’s discussion of relevant transition risks. We wanted to help answer questions on financial risks and opportunities for the real economy and the financial sector during the transition. Furthermore, we presented our ClimateXcellence model that enables stakeholders to quantify financial risks and opportunities.

UN climate change conference

Conference in Marrakesh: 07-18 November 2016 

Politicians of all nations got together in Marrakesh to discuss a roadmap to put to work the Paris agreement of last year. 100 countries have now formally ratified the Paris agreement in a singular political effort within a year. The Agreement entered into force even before COP22. Jean-Christian Brunke (on the far right) attended the conference in Marrakesh to introduce our ClimateXcellence model. ClimateXcellence puts into numbers the risks and opportunities of limiting climate change and its necessary disruptions – for several kinds of emission-intensive sectors. Here you can get to the conference.

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