Climate Impact Investing – Der Beitrag Nachhaltiger Geldanlagen zur Erreichung der Klimaziele
Climvest – Climate Impact Investing
Teilprojekt 1: Koordination, Rahmenwerke und verhaltensökonomische Experimente
Das erste Teilprojekt erhebt, strukturiert und analysiert die von Kapitalmarktteilnehmer:innen angewendeten Rahmenwerke und Anlässe zur Wirkungsmessung, vergleicht die gängigsten Bewertungssysteme und überprüft das Vorhandensein bekannter Biases aus dem ESG-Rating. Zusätzlich wird mittels eines Investitionsexperiments die Bereitschaft von Kleinanleger:innen untersucht, für klimafreundliche Anlageprodukte auf erwartete Renditen zu verzichten.

Teilprojekt 2: Empirische Kapitalmarktanalysen
Das zweite Teilprojekt untersucht empirisch, ob ein klimafreundlicher Kapitalmarkt bereits beobachtbar ist und inwieweit klimafreundliche Investor:innen Bereitschaft zeigen, auf Teile der Rendite ihrer Geldanlage zu verzichten.

Teilprojekt 3: Makroökonomische Modellierung
Climvest I Towards Granular Climate Transparency in Mutual Funds: Informing the SFDR Review

Towards Granular Climate Transparency in Mutual Funds: Informing the SFDR Review
Capital markets are supposed to play a central role in closing the climate investment gap (European Commission 2018; Andersen 2022). Mutual funds, as widely used investment products, are increasingly expected to channel capital towards closing the finance gap to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement (Andersen 2022). Recent regulatory initiatives such as the SFDR aim to enhance transparency around the sustainability information of such funds, thereby empowering investors to make informed decisions and ensuring that capital is steered towards the transition to a net-zero economy. However, despite these efforts, the current disclosure regime does not sufficiently reflect the diversity and complexity of climate approaches employed by climateoriented mutual funds. Investors might face challenges in understanding what a fund’s climate approachactually implies (Andrikogiannopoulou et al. 2022). This lack of granularity, also found as a general research restriction in sustainability (Edmans 2023), is particularly problematic in light of the heterogeneity among climateoriented funds, which differ substantially in terms of their strategic approach (Popescu et al. 2021), e.g., Paris-aligned, CO₂ reduction-focused, SDG13-driven, or EU Taxonomy-based This policy brief summarizes key findings from a recent empirical study on 622 European climate-oriented mutual funds, which identifies four dominant climate strategies and analyzes their relationship with specific climate metrics and financial performance. The findings provide timely and policy-relevant insights for the ongoing revision of the SFDR. They underline the importance of recognizing transition-oriented investment strategies and advocate for a more differentiated disclosure framework that enables investors and regulators alike to distinguish between distinct climate approaches within the fund universe.
- Veröffentlichungsdatum: März 2025
- Autor:innen: Christian Klein, Juris Dobrick, Lisa Knob, Marco Wilkens
- Publikationsart: Policy Brief
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