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Globalisierung und Netzwerke
(2005)
The European Union petition 0429/2017 wants to make the European Central Bank apply the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in their whole core business consequently. The petition has been brought forward by Harald J. Bolsinger from Germany. In this second article, he describes backgrounds and developments around the petition until the beginning of 2023. The petition, submitted on May 8, 2017, addressed the investment policy of the ECB. Audits of violations of EU Fundamental Rights, it claimed, should be specifically included into the eligibility for EU-owned assets. As Bolsinger explains, the ECB is still involved in violations of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union through possession and trading of ethically very questionable assets.
Petition 0429/2017 has been brought forward by Prof. Harald Bolsinger. In this article he describes backgrounds and developments around the petition. The petition, submitted on May the 8th 2017, addressed the investments policy of the ECB. Compliance with EU Fundamental Rights, it claimed, should be specifically included into the eligibility for EU owned assets. As Bolsinger explains, at the moment the ECB is involved in violations of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union through possession and trading of unethical securities.
In this text, all contributions are summarized and the focus of the volume is explained. It highlights the importance of a new cultural setting for ECB sustainability strategies. From a system in which the financial sector incorporates sustainability according to its own logic, as does the real sector, the political sector, the regulatory sector, and the civil society, we need to start working on a system of mutually consistent logics to move from “(ECB) Climate Finance” to a “Climate Finance Society” and from “Sustainable Finance” to a “Sustainable Finance Society.” On this basis, one could then start working on the even more ambitious project of putting culture center stage.
The chapter presents the emergence and transformation of the business model of a bank that was one of the first banks in Germany to fundamentally commit to sustainability: UmweltBank AG Nuremberg. In addition to the emergence and fundamental development of the bank, principles, business objectives, challenges, and steps for the development of its own sustainability strategy are highlighted. The chapter provides reflection questions that simplify a swing into the “road of sustainability” as a model for medium-sized companies and shows the successful realignment of the bank to the SDGs of the United Nations, with which UmweltBank actively and profitably shapes its mission in the transformation process to a sustainable economy and society.
Das Würzburger Lernmodell
(2015)