We have expert knowledge of current policy trends and the underlying science. At the same time, we are ruthlessly pragmatic and technology savvy with a strong desire to deliver material results on the ground.
International Framework
Our work is based on the internationally agreed frameworks in our field of action, especially on those originating from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)in 1992, the “Earth Summit”: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of all Types of Forest (Forest Principles)and the Agenda 21whose goals have been incorporated into today’s Agenda 2030with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Important Basics
Our work is informed by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA, 2006), the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (Stern Review, 2006), the Eliasch Review on Climate Change: Financing Global Forests (Eliasch Review, 2008)and the study on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB, 2008/10)as well as current research on the topic of climate change, biodiversity and the efficiency of implementing mechanisms and projects. Our work is inspired by the efforts of the United Nations (UN) and, in particular the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) on a more sustainable financial system as set out in the reports The financial system we need: Aligning the financial system with sustainable development (2015), Financing sustainable development: Moving from momentum to transformation in a time of turmoil (2016)and Fintech and sustainable development: Assessing the implications (2016)as well as the recommendations of the EU High Level Group on Sustainable Finance.
Current Initiatives
Our project contributes to current initiatives like The Bonn Challenge(a global effort to restore 150 million hectares of the world’s degraded and deforested lands by 2020), The New York Declaration on Forests(the declaration pledges to halve the rate of deforestation by 2020, to end it by 2030, and to restore hundreds of millions acres of degraded land) and The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100)(a country-led effort to bring 100 million hectares of land in Africa into restoration by 2030). It also contributes to initiatives on local, national and EU-level like the EU Single Market for Green Products Initiative, the Integrated Environmental Program 2030of the German Ministry for the Environment (Integriertes Umweltprogramm 2030) and the Emergency Program Clean Air (Sofortprogramm Saubere Luft).
Partnerships
We are open to valuable partnerships and actively contribute to relevant initiatives in our field. GreenMania is a founding member of the Accelerating Sustainable Finance Initiativeof Deutsche Börse and KfW which meanwhile has been merged into the Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germanyand of the SDG-FinTech Initiative of Frankfurt Main Finance.