OGUT subject area “Sustainable Financial Market”

Money to be invested in line with criteria of sustainability is a source of so-called “green money” seeking suitable firms / forms of investment. This “green money” gets invested in projects, firms or countries that satisfy the criteria of sustainability.
Goal: a buoyant sustainable financial market, to be achieved by stimulating

• demand: encouraging investors to select sustainable investments,
• supply: ensuring sufficient investment options that satisfy the criteria of sustainability and 
• the sustainable financial market via a supportive institutional framework.

The OGUT subject area “Sustainable Financial Market” is therefore particularly concerned with the following issues:

• How can sustainable firms – from large companies quoted on the stock exchange to tiny undertakings – be motivated to turn to and assisted in using the sustainable financial market as a source of finance, making them partners for sustainable investors? 
• What is the best way to motivate institutional investors to incorporate social and ecological criteria in their investment decisions, along with purely economic criteria? 
• How can private investors be supported in their endeavours to invest their money sustainably?
• What political and institutional framework is needed to strengthen the sustainable financial market?

Apart from the platform “Ethical-ecological investment“ (only in German), OGUT also pursues the aim of encouraging the development of a sustainable financial market within research projects and by providing information for specific target groups.

Current projects

Keynote Speech - ISSRM 2009: Ethical-Ecological Investment: A Way towards Sustainability?

On July the 7th 2009 at the 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management Dr. Herbert Greisberger and Dr.ⁱⁿ Katharina Sammer addressed the question “Ethical-Ecological Investment: A Way towards Sustainability?”

OGUT platform “Ethical-ecological investment”

The goal of the OGUT platform is to stimulate the market for ethical-ecological forms of investment in Austria. (Details only in German)

Awarded Sustainable Pension Fund - Sustainability certification for severance-pay funds and company pension funds

Annual examination and certification of institutional investors who take criteria of sustainability into account in their investment decisions, within the context of the OGUT platform. (Details only in German)

Sustainable financial management in Austria

Structured treatment of the topic of sustainable financial management in Austria and presentation of two case histories, plus a relaunch of www.gruenesgeld.at. (Details only in German)

Innovative financial instruments for biomass: Requirements and development of a biomass-private equity fund

Developing models in private equity financing as an essential contribution to finance sustainable projects and to launch innovative biomass-technologies in a large scale.

Österreichische Gesellschaft
für Umwelt und Technik
Hollandstraße 10/46
A-1020 Wien
Tel +43.1.315 63 93
Fax +43.1.315 63 93-22
E-Mail office@oegut.at

Further Information