All Outputs (10)

A Green and Just Planet. The 1.5°C Agenda for Governing Global Industrial and Financial Policies in the G20. Independent Report of the G20 TF‑CLIMA Group of Experts (2024)
Report
Mazzucato, M., Songwe, V., Assunção, J., Buchner, B., Gabor, D., Kohli, R., Lebdioui, A., Lopes, C., Ma, J., Palacios, L., & Volz, U. (2024). A Green and Just Planet. The 1.5°C Agenda for Governing Global Industrial and Financial Policies in the G20. Independent Report of the G20 TF‑CLIMA Group of Experts

Scaling Up Green Investment in the Global South: Strengthening Domestic Financial Resource Mobilisation and Attracting Patient International Capital (2024)
Report
Volz, U., Lo, Y., & Mishra, V. (2024). Scaling Up Green Investment in the Global South: Strengthening Domestic Financial Resource Mobilisation and Attracting Patient International Capital

Weather-related disasters and inflation in the euro area (2024)
Journal Article
Beirne, J., Dafermos, Y., Kriwoluzky, A., Renzhi, N., Volz, U., & Wittich, J. (2024). Weather-related disasters and inflation in the euro area. Journal of Banking and Finance, 169, Article 107298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2024.107298

This paper investigates the impact of weather-related disasters on inflation in the euro area over the period 1996-2021. Using a panel structural vector autoregression approach, we explore whether weather-related disasters have a significant and pers... Read More about Weather-related disasters and inflation in the euro area.

Facilitating a Just Transition for SMEs by Automating Data Collection and Leveraging Digital Sustainable Finance (2024)
Report
Haahr, M., & Volz, U. (2024). Facilitating a Just Transition for SMEs by Automating Data Collection and Leveraging Digital Sustainable Finance

A just energy transition requires building the carbon accounting capabilities of millions of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) globally and linking this to the financing of net zero transition pathways. SMEs account for at least 50% of greenhouse g... Read More about Facilitating a Just Transition for SMEs by Automating Data Collection and Leveraging Digital Sustainable Finance.

High Voltage: Financing the Path to Zero Coal (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Grieco, F., Macaire, C., Naef, A., & Volz, U. High Voltage: Financing the Path to Zero Coal. London

Keeping global warming under 1.5°C requires a complete phase-out of coal for electricity generation by 2040 according to the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Emissions by 2050 (NZE) scenario. In this paper, we use units-level data from the Glob... Read More about High Voltage: Financing the Path to Zero Coal.

Green Investment Banks: Unleashing The Potential of National Development Banks to Finance a Green and Just Transition (2024)
Report
Volz, U., & Lee, J. (2024). Green Investment Banks: Unleashing The Potential of National Development Banks to Finance a Green and Just Transition

This publication explores how green investment banks to can help finance a green and just transition, making a case for strengthening their role and showing how international development finance institutions can help unleash their potential. It is cr... Read More about Green Investment Banks: Unleashing The Potential of National Development Banks to Finance a Green and Just Transition.

Prudential Net Zero Transition Plans: The Potential of a New Regulatory Instrument (2024)
Journal Article
Dikau, S., Robins, N., Smoleńska, A., van 't Klooster, J., & Volz, U. (2025). Prudential Net Zero Transition Plans: The Potential of a New Regulatory Instrument. Journal of Banking Regulation, 26, 85-99. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41261-024-00247-w

Net zero transition plans are a promising additional instrument for prudential supervisors to assess, address and bring distant financial risks into the present. To date, transition plans have primarily emerged as non-financial disclosure requirement... Read More about Prudential Net Zero Transition Plans: The Potential of a New Regulatory Instrument.

A Climate Bank for Viet Nam to Catalyze Green and Just Transitions (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Marois, T., & Volz, U. (2024). A Climate Bank for Viet Nam to Catalyze Green and Just Transitions. Hanoi

A new public climate bank with a focused policy mandate on climate action supported by international development finance institutions could help Viet Nam achieve a just transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy. Given the enormous and... Read More about A Climate Bank for Viet Nam to Catalyze Green and Just Transitions.

Mobilising A Trillion Dollars for Climate Mitigation in Poor Countries: A Proposal for a New Finance Facility against Climate Change (2024)
Report
Kraemer, M., & Volz, U. (2024). Mobilising A Trillion Dollars for Climate Mitigation in Poor Countries: A Proposal for a New Finance Facility against Climate Change

Many developing countries are struggling under a high sovereign debt burden and rising interest rates that leave little fiscal space to meet their Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Climate Accord. To enable these countries to invest... Read More about Mobilising A Trillion Dollars for Climate Mitigation in Poor Countries: A Proposal for a New Finance Facility against Climate Change.

Defaulting on Development and Climate: Debt Sustainability and the Race for the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement (2024)
Report
Zucker-Marques, M., Gallagher, K. P., & Volz, U. (2024). Defaulting on Development and Climate: Debt Sustainability and the Race for the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement

In this report we perform an enhanced global external debt sustainability analysis to estimate the extent to which EMDEs can mobilize the G20 independent Expert Group recommended levels of external financing without jeopardizing debt sustainability.... Read More about Defaulting on Development and Climate: Debt Sustainability and the Race for the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement.