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31 March 2022
Navigating the biodiversity crisis: notes for the financial sector

Elizabeth Tamayo Tabares

You have probably heard about biodiversity loss as a new and urgent problem we need to address. News about extinct rhinos and endangered bees have made headlines recently, and perhaps they have even hit too close to home for you. However, do you feel personally threatened by these stories? More importantly, do you feel somehow responsible for these issues?
2 May 2023
Cultivating Sustainability: a Call-to-Action on Earth Day and beyond
Arturo Martinez Oest
Earth Day is a day that reminds each one of us of our duty to protect the planet and ensure a sustainable future for generations to come. It is a day that serves as a call to action to rethink our relationship with the environment and take steps towards a more sustainable and fairer world. But it should not be a reminder only every 22 April, but daily.
When I started counting, I realised that I had been at more than 30 research conferences and workshops in the past 3 years. The sheer number of times that I was out there in front of an audience astonished even me. I was there as a listener, a comment provider, frequently a speaker and sometimes even a session chairperson.
11 April 2023
Life wisdom I learnt from research conferences
Menglu Neupert-Zhuang
14 March 2023
A Cautionary Tale: The Case of Greenwashing
María José Valverde
It is evident that climate change, sustainability and ESG criteria (Environmental, Social and Governance) have become trending topics across countries, sectors, industries and even political parties, given that societal perceptions and consumer demands for better accountability have changed.
On behalf of Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN), Frankfurt School’s International Advisory Services (IAS), the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and Climate Company prepared the new report ”Biodiversity and finance: Managing the double materiality”. This report contributes to the understanding and managing of biodiversity-related physical and transition risks.
7 February 2023
Biodiversity and finance: managing the double materiality
Carola Menzel-Hausherr
9 September 2020
Risk Management and Sustainability

Menglu Neupert-Zhuang

Risk management has become increasingly important as global uncertainties surge. We can view sustainability through various lenses. One possibility is to look at sustainability from the perspective of risk management.
18 June 2020
About my new job and global crises

Elizabeth Tamayo Tabares

My journey as a new project coordinator at the Frankfurt School-UNEP Centre has started amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has posed unexpected challenges but also important learnings for the way we face current crises.
4 November 2022
Rediscovering our relationship with Nature – beyond profit and optimisation
María José Valverde
Climate change has taken a prominent role in daily conversations among friends, colleagues and strangers – and so has climate anxiety. However, on a personal level, having the opportunity to work on these issues every day helps me to keep this anxiety away. It allows me to “put a face” to a sometimes very abstract and complex problem and to witness concrete results.
In almost ten years of working with climate finance in different European countries, it has become commonplace to experience what I call “quiet disregard” when the word “gender” echoes in the room. That consists of men nodding positively to agree silently with the topic’s relevance, followed by some subtle-to-abrupt effort to move on to something actually important.
10 October 2022
Climate change and the importance of gender
Luis Zamarioli
5 October 2022
Insights from the IPCC Report on Climate Change Mitigation
Michael König
In the last three years, I was fully involved in the role as Chapter Scientist and collaborated with a team of climate finance experts from 21 countries in assessing evidence on the relation between finance and climate change. For this opportunity, I am grateful for the German IPCC focal point and their outstanding support.
With frankly.green, we have made a conscious decision to facilitate financing for green businesses in emerging markets. Already back in 2004, the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, stated: "In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development." We strongly believe that investors can make a big and very direct impact here.
23 September 2021
frankly.green – the green Crowdinvesting Platform of Frankfurt School
Tobias Panofen
5 May 2020
Have you felt the sustainable finance-related regulatory attention already?

Menglu Neupert-Zhuang

Together with Karsten Löffler and Sebastian Rink, we have written a chapter in the new book on sustainable finance Nachhaltige Finanzwirtschaft. In our chapter, we provide a historical look-back on the fast regulatory developments in Europe, inter alia Germany and make several suggestions on how financial institutions could prepare themselves for the upcoming challenges and opportunities. If you have already felt the regulatory attention in your job, it is time to get an overview on the current situation.
14 October 2019
A new experience: completing my first e-learning course

Malin Emmerich

As a project manager for the climate finance related e-Learning courses from FS-UNEP I am used to being on “the other side” of these exams, preparing questions and checking formulations with our experts. At several occasions I also supervised final exams, answering questions from participants about the exam rules; no laptops allowed, please put your mobile phone away, yes - even if it is turned-off, and call out “5 minutes left” for all to know.
22 July 2021
Nationally determined contributions – moving from theory to action
Dr. Muhammad Khalifa
With endemic poverty in Africa, lack of financial resources could be one of the most pressing challenges that hinder proper actions from adapting and mitigating climate change. I started to ask myself what the potential sources for climate finance are? How could climate finance strategies be developed?
There are two things I like very much. One is writing; the other is solving problems. These two traits make me realise at an early stage that doing research gives me satisfaction. In research, I can dwell on a narrowed-down problem for a long time digging its root out, and I also need to write up the findings neatly in order to communicate them well.
25 May 2021
The joys and challenges of a researcher in sustainable finance
Menglu Neupert-Zhuang
Navigating the biodiversity crisis: notes for the financial sector
31 March 2022
Elizabeth Tamayo Tabares
Cultivating Sustainability: a Call-to-Action on Earth Day and beyond
2 May 2023
Arturo Martinez Oest
Life wisdom I learnt from research conferences
11 April 2023
Menglu Neupert-Zhuang
Risk Management and Sustainability
9 September 2020
Menglu Neupert-Zhuang
A Cautionary Tale: The Case of Greenwashing
14 March 2023
María José Valverde
Biodiversity and finance: managing the double materiality
7 February 2023
Carola Menzel-Hausherr
About my new job and global crises
18 June 2020
Elizabeth Tamayo Tabares
Rediscovering our relationship with Nature – beyond profit and optimisation
4 November 2022
María José Valverde
Climate change and the importance of gender
10 October 2022
Luis Zamarioli
Have you felt the sustainable finance-related regulatory attention already?
5 May 2020
Menglu Neupert-Zhuang
Insights from the IPCC Report on Climate Change Mitigation
5 October 2022
Michael König
frankly.green – the green Crowdinvesting Platform of Frankfurt School
23 September 2021
Tobias Panofen
A new experience: completing my first e-learning course
14 October 2019
Malin Emmerich
Nationally determined contributions – moving from theory to action
22 July 2021
Dr. Muhammad Khalifa
The joys and challenges of a researcher in sustainable finance
25 May 2021
Menglu Neupert-Zhuang