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For a monetary and financial system that serves people and protects our livelihoods.

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How we work

FaFin conducts research for a sustainable monetary and financial system. To this end, it brings together people, perspectives, scientific disciplines and organisations, creates transformative learning and experience spaces and develops practical solutions together.

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From the Fair Finance Institute

This section contains updates and interesting facts from FaFin.

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Connecting Investment and Philanthropy

First Market Overview of Funds with a Donation Component Published

For many years, it has been common practice to combine financial products with philanthropic ele-ments. This includes funds that allocate part of their income to support social and ecological causes. For this market segment, consolidated information on German-speaking Europe is now available for the first time. The Fair Finance Institute, a think-and-do tank for a fair and sustainable financial sys-tem, identified 36 funds with a donation component in a pilot study that are authorized for distribu-tion in Germany, Austria, and/or Switzerland.
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New project on Nature Credits

State of knowledge, analysis of approaches and development of recommendations for action

Nature Credits, also known as biodiversity credits, are generally understood to be tradable certificates in the form of a quantitatively measurable and verifiable unit that demonstrates a positive contribution to biodiversity. They aim to conserve biological diversity and counteract biodiversity loss.
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State of Finance for Nature 2026 published

Nature in the Red: Powering the Trillion Dollar Nature Transition Economy

UNEP’s “State of Finance for Nature 2026: Nature in the Red: Powering the Trillion Dollar Nature Transition Economy” tracks global finance flows to Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and reveals that we are far off track in investing in nature to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation.
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Interdisciplinary research

Realising scientific projects

FaFin conducts research into a sustainable monetary and financial system. To this end, it brings together different perspectives, scientific disciplines and institutions.

Educate comprehensively

Opening up transformative learning and experience spaces

FaFin enables people, organisations and systems for the necessary socio-ecological transformation.

Shaping together

Creating momentum for sustainability

The monetary and financial system requires a variety of changes for a successful socio-ecological transformation. FaFin makes concrete contributions to this.

Initiating networks

Bringing people together

FaFin has a broad network and is itself an initiator of networks. The aim is to implement projects together and support cooperation between different people and organisations.

Promoting dialogue

Giving space to professional debates

FaFin organises its own events to promote professional exchange on a sustainable monetary and financial system and offers leaders space for open discourse.

Dealing with challenges

Thinking and acting systemically

FaFin pursues a comprehensive approach that goes far beyond traditional sustainable finance topics and combines issues such as climate, monetary and financial policy.

Projects

What we work on

FaFin realises a wide range of projects, information on which can be found here.

Projects that were or are still being worked on under Markus Duscha’s freelance work and not at FaFin gGmbH (more under History) are labelled accordingly.

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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 2022 Global Biodiversity Framework explicitly call for the use of private capital alongside increased public funding. Currently, stakeholders such as the European Commission and various international bodies and initiatives are increasingly developing concepts and pilot markets for Nature Credits and issuing them through initial programmes.
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EU Sustainable Finance Framework

Ensuring Consistency and Ambition

The project on the EU Sustainable Finance Framework aims to ensure ambitious and consistent criteria in the EU sustainable finance framework. Its instruments (e.g. EU Taxonomy, CSRD, SFDR, etc.) need to be ambitious to include economic sectors that meet ambitious environmental requirements
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Turnaround money II

Rethinking municipal finances (workshop series)

Against the backdrop of current developments in the field of sustainable finance, the project aims to develop concrete, innovative and structural solutions in a series of workshops together with relevant stakeholders.
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Fair Finance
Institute

There is a stable monetary and financial system that naturally integrates social and ecological criteria and has found its way back to its main function: serving the real economy. There is still a lot to do to achieve this.

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Markus Duscha
Founder of the Fair Finance Institute and Managing Partner

The non-profit status as an organisational form was deliberately chosen because in future all companies should be oriented towards the common good. The Fair Finance Institute wants to set an example in this respect.

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Walter Kern
Partner and Authorised Representive

A monetary and financial system that actively promotes socio-ecological transformation needs new ideas and technologies, social innovations and future-oriented concepts. The Fair Finance Institute contributes to this.

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Gesa Vögele
Managing Partner

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