Climate Change and Financial Markets

Since October 2007, we support the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the “Climate Change Finance Forum” in the development of a joint research initiative.

Further Mandates:

Member of the council of experts to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for the definition of a “high-tech strategy for climate protection, co-chair of the financial forum with Otto Steinmetz (Board of Directors Dresdner Bank), responsible for the financial perspective (May to October 2007)

Advisor to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research research programme “Research for climate mitigation and protection” (2006-2009)

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Sustainable Investment

Since 2000, we are dealing with the issue of sustainable investment. Among others, the following reports and studies are available:

 

Flotow, von, Paschen (together with R. Häßler and J. Schmidt) - sponsored by the BMBF

 Flotow, von, Paschen (together with R. Häßler and J. Schmidt)

Flotow, von, Paschen (together with R. v. Rosen, R. Häßler and Petra Kachel).

  • Nachhaltigkeit und Shareholder Value aus Sicht börsennotierter Unternehmen, Ergebnisse einer Umfrage des Deutschen Aktieninstituts e.V. und des Instituts für Ökologie und Unternehmensführung an der EUROPEAN BUSINESS SCHOOL e.V. Frankfurt 

 


As part of the project “Environmental sustainability and transparency in financial markets“ the ZEW conducted the following studies:

Schroeder, Michael (2003)


Ziegler, Andreas / Rennings, Klaus / Schroeder, Michael (2002)  


Since 2003 online:

Portal: www.sustainable-investment.org

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Corporate Responsibility / Sustainable and Environmental Management

Public Mandates

Environmental management of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

From 1998 - 2002, we worked for UNCTAD and the German Ministry of the Environment (BMU) on the topic of “Environmental Management of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)”


Flotow, von, Paschen et al.

 

Based onI case studies and further investigations the intention of  the German government and German industry was to develop a voluntary agreement for the World Summit in Johannesburg in September 2002. The signing of the final document failed in May 2002.

 

 

For further information see Environmental Economics and Politics – Voluntary Agreement.

 

Further mandates:

  • Member of the expert group "Corporate Responsibility" to the German Council for Sustainable Development (2006)
  • Expert/ peer review for the study on the effects of the new recycling economy law by the Fraunhofer Institute Freising and respectively the European regulation of Scrapped Car Recycling on behalf of manufacturers and suppliers of the German automotive industry VKE / FAT (2001-2004). Joint review with Dr. Rainer Grießhammer, Öko-Institut – Institute for Applied Ecology . The report can be requested at the VKE.

Study: Verwertung von Kunststoffbauteilen aus Altautos – Analyse der Umwelteffekte nach dem LCA-Prinzip und ökonomische Analyse, Frankfurt, 2005

  • Group Sustainability Management of RAG (today EVONIK AG)
  • Supply-chain management: development and implementation of inter-company optimisations for the supply-chain management of a module of the DaimlerChrysler AG and a material flow of the Bayer AG
  • Environmental and sustainability reporting by Adam Opel AG
  • Environmental risk assessment for CargoLifter 
  • Early detection system for the sustainable management of C&A 
  • Development of an environmental-brand strategy for Lego 
  • Ecological and economical evaluation of the recycling system for roof tiles of the company Braas (today Lafarge / Braas)

 
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Environmental Economics and Politics – Voluntary Agreement

Evaluation of Voluntary Agreements

On behalf of the VCI (German chemical industry association), we evaluated the effectiveness and efficiency of voluntary agreements in the chemical industry, and derived a number of benefiting factors.  (1999-2001)



Flotow, von, Paschen, (together with J. Schmidt)

 
„Effektivität und Effizienz von Selbstverpflichtungen der chemischen Industrie -
Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie“. In: Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik und Umweltrecht 4/2002 (zusammen mit  J. Schmidt).

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Environmentally Oriented Mobility

Flotow, von, Paschen, (published together wirth. U. Steger)

  • Die Brennstoffzelle – Ende des Verbrennungsmotors? Automobilhersteller und Stakeholder im Dialog. Publisher Paul Haupt Verlag Bern, 2000

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History of Theories / Philosophy and Ethics

Our applied research on sustainable development and management issues is based on a theoretical analysis of modern economy and society. To better understand the problems of sustainable development it is necessary to analyse the dynamics of the monetary system.

The following publications deal with these fundamental questions:

Flotow, von, Paschen,

  • Geld, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft: Georg Simmels Philosophie des Geldes.  Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1995 

Flotow, von, Paschen, ( published together with H. Ch. Binswanger),

  • Geld und Wachstum: Zur Philosophie und Praxis des Geldes Stuttgart: Weitbrecht, 1994

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