Connecting Investment and Philanthropy: First Market Overview of Funds with a Donation Component Published
The donation component can be implemented either at the fund or at the individual share class level. The aggregated volume of these funds and share classes amounts to €8.3 billion, […]
New project on Nature Credits: State of knowledge, analysis of approaches and development of recommendations for action
Nature credits are intended to help mobilise private investment for nature conservation and ecosystem restoration. Interest in such instruments has risen significantly in recent years. International agreements such as the […]
State of Finance for Nature 2026: Nature in the Red: Powering the Trillion Dollar Nature Transition Economy
The fourth edition builds on established methods. This edition uses improved data and more robust methods to track NbS finance flows in 2023, NbS investment needs and opportunities to 2030 […]
Lecture at TU Dresden: Exchange on nature-based solutions and biodiversity credits
On 3 December, the Fair Finance Institute was invited to give a lecture on sustainable finance, nature-based solutions and biodiversity credits.
FaFin signs open letter on SFDR review
But to succeed, it must provide strong safeguards — starting with the exclusion of fossil fuel developers from all funds making environmental or sustainability claims. The activities of these companies […]
Project Gender Lens Investing
The institut für finanzdienstleistungen (iff) and the Fair Finance Institute (FaFin) are investigating these questions in a joint project. The project ist funded by the German Institute for Development Evaluation […]
Fair Finance Institute with greater organisational and personal clout and a new look
The Fair Finance Institute (FaFin), which has been working for a fair and sustainable monetary and financial system for many years, has continued to develop and strengthen itself. It was […]
EU Sustainable Finance Framework
The new FaFin project is focussing on consistency and ambition with regard to the taxonomy, SFRD and CSRD. The project is funded by the is the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt). […]
17th municipal breakfast Sustainable Finance
On 19 April 2024, Grafschafter Volksbank again hosted a high-level meeting for municipalities and municipal companies in the county of Bentheim. Under the headline ‘Impulses for a sustainable finance initiative […]
Portrait Gesa Vögele
On 23 May 2024, the twice-weekly Sustainable Finance Briefing of the Hauptstadt-Zeitung featured a portrait of Gesa Vögele, Managing Partner at FaFin. It describes the professional career of the economist […]
Biodiversity Workshop
oekofinanz-21, the network for sustainable investment advice, organises its specialist events twice a year. This year’s spring conference took place in Fulda at the end of April 2024 and was […]