Climate Finance Society (ClimFiSoc)

The institutional logics of climate finance

News from the association:

As part of the conference Building socially just postgrowth futures - linking theory and action, taking place in Oslo from 24 to 27 June, Ilias Naji, Ulrich Klüh, Jakob Kubin (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences) and Janina Urban (Witten/Herdecke University) are hosting a special session entitled Banks, Finance, and Post-Growth: Institutions for Sustainable Futures?

more information: https://isee-degrowth2025.no/

On March 26, 2025, we at the ClimateFinanceSociety Team Darmstadt invite you to the dialogue forum Investing in the future - Financing the sustainable transformation of SMEs . As part of the Darmstadt Days of Transformation 25 and in cooperation with the Schader Foundation and the Fair Finance Institute, we will discuss with participants from SMEs and the financial sector.

More information and the opportunity to register can be found here: https://www.schader-stiftung.de/veranstaltungen/aktuell/artikel/in-die-zukunft-investieren-die-nachhafte-transformation-von-kmu-finanzieren

FINANCIAL POLICY FOR TRANSFORMATION

The development of private and public financial systems is the linchpin of current transformation processes that are determined by the natural prerequisites of economic activity. Financial systems are the institutions that enable any future-oriented reallocation of resources in our societies - or not. These reallocations are necessary for any kind of innovation, especially for an ecologically sensitive restructuring of our production methods and our consumption behavior. Questions of resource allocation and distribution and their interactions also arise: where, how, for what purpose, by whom and to what end is reallocation taking place?

The question of whether this or that investment, for example in green transport infrastructure, is financially viable therefore only touches on the surface, even if it is of current political importance. At its core, it is about developing favorable structural, institutional and power-political conditions for the transformation into private and public financial systems that take effect under market economy conditions.

We cordially invite all interested parties to Tutzing and ask you to note the CALL for the open part of the conference and to forward it to those who are interested.

More information about the conference can be found in the following link:
https://www.ev-akademie-tutzing.de/Veranstaltung/finanzpolitik-fuer-die-transformation/

The co-organizers Ulrich Klüh and Richard Sturn introduce the conference with their blog post Empty Words. You can find it directly below this entry.

In their blog post Empty Words , Ulrich Klüh and Richard Sturn introduce the conference Financial Policy for Transformation. This will take place from March 10 to 12 together with the Evangelical Academy Tutzing.

You can find the full text here:

https://web.ev-akademie-tutzing.de/rotunde/index.php/leere-worte/

On December 18 and 19, 2024, the Darmstadt Team of the research project called Climate Finance Society (ClimFiSoc), in cooperation with the SuFi project (Janina Urban), organized a workshop on the topic of post-growth and banking/finance at the Haus am Dom in Frankfurt am Main. Silke Ötsch (ClimFiSoc Göttingen) and Felix Rossmann (ClimFiSoc Padeborn) also took part in the workshop.

During the first half-day, academic perspectives on this topic from an organizational and systemic point of view were presented and discussed. The second half-day was devoted to practitioners, with presentations on the current role of NGOs and banks. Business models, regulations, and skills were of particular interest to participants.
This workshop provided an opportunity to discuss the state of the art on the subject of banks and post-growth. Discussions highlighted the need for further integrated research with practitioners.

click here for more news and the program:

https://znwu.de/en/workshop-banks-and-post-growth-in-frankfurt-

December-2024/

W:NE
Economy in Dialogue on: Sustainable Developments

The seminar of the Center for Sustainable Economic and Corporate Policy (ZNWU) takes place every semester. Students are also welcome. Registration is not required.

When: Thursdays from 12:15 to 13:45
Where: Hybrid

Haus der Energie, Holzhofallee 38 / Room 103 or via BigBlueButton
As announced, the lectures this semester will again take place in hybrid form. 

You can register for all meetings using the following link:

https://rooms.h-da.de/r?room=ZNWU+forschungsseminar

Subproject 2:

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Klüh will speak on April 23, 2024 at Haus am Dom (Frankfurt am Main) on the financing of the socio-ecological transformation under the title: Materiality and Plurality of Climate Finance: Beyond Blackrock and the Debt Brake.

Further information:

https://znwu.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/rz-low-Wirtschaft-Transformation-Zukunft.pdf

Subproject 2: 

Transformation talk from the Saarland Chamber of Labor
“Transformation financing beyond the debt brake and Blackrock”

Financing the social-ecological transformation Tue April 23, 2024, 7:00 pm With: Prof. Ulrich Klüh, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences Response: Georg Schürmann, Managing Director Triodos Bank NV Germany When we hear the term “financing social-ecological transformation,” we usually think of sustainable equity funds or the federal government's climate and transformation fund. But what role do savings banks and Volksbanks actually play? What can the ECB do? And which tax system can best be used to finance public investments in climate protection? But do these questions really get to the heart of the problem? Prof. Ulrich Klüh will speak about the nexus of money and matter: plurality and materiality of transformation financing. You can find detailed information here . More information about the series To Participate – Book your tickets