Paula Haufe
@paulahaufe.bsky.social
phd | political economist | searching for climate justice in climate finance | BMBF SustainableFinance project @UniWH | associate @GpnGlobal | she/her
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Paula Haufe
@paulahaufe.bsky.social
· Mar 22
The ecor as global special purpose money: towards a green international monetary system to finance sustainable and just transformation - Sustainability Science
Countries from the Global South face significant challenges to finance sustainable and just transformation. These challenges primarily stem from the hierarchical character of the current international...
rb.gy
🚨New & Open Access – How to finance a sustainable transformation globally?
@jwullweber.bsky.social , @naguila.bsky.social
and me
💰propose: The ecor as global special purpose money
⛔bc any answer must counter the international monetary hierarchy. a short 🧵
--> rb.gy/yuxbmy
@jwullweber.bsky.social , @naguila.bsky.social
and me
💰propose: The ecor as global special purpose money
⛔bc any answer must counter the international monetary hierarchy. a short 🧵
--> rb.gy/yuxbmy
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📣 Avec plus de 120 organisations, experts, chercheurs et entreprises, nous appelons la Commission européenne à garantir l'exclusion des entreprises développant de nouveaux projets d'énergies fossiles des futures catégories du SFDR afin de lutter efficacement contre le greenwashing.
Lire la lettre ⤵️
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There is no room for fossil fuel developers in any sustainable finance categories - Reclaim Finance
The review of the SFDR is coming to an end with the publication of the proposal for a revised regulation by the European Commission announced for Q4 2025.
reclaimfinance.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
📣 Avec plus de 120 organisations, experts, chercheurs et entreprises, nous appelons la Commission européenne à garantir l'exclusion des entreprises développant de nouveaux projets d'énergies fossiles des futures catégories du SFDR afin de lutter efficacement contre le greenwashing.
Lire la lettre ⤵️
Lire la lettre ⤵️
Inspiring, empowering, and full of bold research: the summer school was a reminder for how vital it is to build more inclusive spaces in political economy. 💜 Thanks to everyone involved and especially @palmapolyak.bsky.social & @dustinvoss.bsky.social
Thank you to all who joined us in Cologne this week for the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! A fantastic line-up of speakers and participants, thoughtful discussions and global perspectives. Huge thanks to organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social!
September 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Inspiring, empowering, and full of bold research: the summer school was a reminder for how vital it is to build more inclusive spaces in political economy. 💜 Thanks to everyone involved and especially @palmapolyak.bsky.social & @dustinvoss.bsky.social
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Happy to share a new open-access article from the SuFi project at Witten/Herdecke University, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social @naguila.bsky.social @janina urban @paulahaufe.bsky.social @simonschairer.bsky.social @jwullweber.bsky.social
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good
The Capital Markets Union (CMU) project aims to create more integrated capital markets in Europe. However, the project faces resistance, and despite ongoing efforts EU capital markets remain fragme...
www.tandfonline.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Happy to share a new open-access article from the SuFi project at Witten/Herdecke University, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social @naguila.bsky.social @janina urban @paulahaufe.bsky.social @simonschairer.bsky.social @jwullweber.bsky.social
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Figure from our #policy #report: 1. The main barrier to #financing the necessary activities for the sustainable transition is their lack of #bankability
2. High GHG-emitting activities remain #bankable and thus continue to attract financing from banks and shadow banks
www.uni-wh.de/en/your-camp...
2. High GHG-emitting activities remain #bankable and thus continue to attract financing from banks and shadow banks
www.uni-wh.de/en/your-camp...
July 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Figure from our #policy #report: 1. The main barrier to #financing the necessary activities for the sustainable transition is their lack of #bankability
2. High GHG-emitting activities remain #bankable and thus continue to attract financing from banks and shadow banks
www.uni-wh.de/en/your-camp...
2. High GHG-emitting activities remain #bankable and thus continue to attract financing from banks and shadow banks
www.uni-wh.de/en/your-camp...
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Our #policy #paper has just been published: "Financing the #green #transition: Increasing #bankability, phasing out carbon investments and funding 'never bankable' activities". We ask: Why does a large green financing gap persist? What policies do we need to change it: www.uni-wh.de/en/your-camp...
[tra:ce] Policy Report
Financing the green transition: Increasing bankability, phasing out carbon investments and funding ‘never bankable’ activities
www.uni-wh.de
July 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Our #policy #paper has just been published: "Financing the #green #transition: Increasing #bankability, phasing out carbon investments and funding 'never bankable' activities". We ask: Why does a large green financing gap persist? What policies do we need to change it: www.uni-wh.de/en/your-camp...
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Banks have been slow to increase green lending and continue to finance high-GHG-emitting activities. Why? Based on 88 interviews, in our new @trace working paper, we argue that there are three main reasons: bankability, business model, and regulations. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The green banking gap: how bankability, business models, and regulations challenge banks' decarbonisation
Banks have been slow to increase green lending while they continue to finance high-GHG-emitting activities, a phenomenon we call the "green banking gap&quo
papers.ssrn.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Banks have been slow to increase green lending and continue to finance high-GHG-emitting activities. Why? Based on 88 interviews, in our new @trace working paper, we argue that there are three main reasons: bankability, business model, and regulations. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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🚨 New Working Paper published with @simonschairer.bsky.social @janfichtner.bsky.social @david castro @naguila.bsky.social @janina urban @paulahaufe.bsky.social @jwullweber.bsky.social :
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Out of the light, into the dark: how 'shadow carbon financing' hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk
Recent years saw major regulatory efforts to steer the financial system towards financing the transition to a net-zero carbon economy and phase out carbon finan
papers.ssrn.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🚨 New Working Paper published with @simonschairer.bsky.social @janfichtner.bsky.social @david castro @naguila.bsky.social @janina urban @paulahaufe.bsky.social @jwullweber.bsky.social :
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Important contribution by @simonschairer.bsky.social and colleagues on the evasion of carbon financing from traditional banks to the opaque shadow banking sector 👇
Recent years saw regulatory efforts to steer the financial system towards financing the transition to a net-zero economy and phase out carbon financing. However, EU regulation has left the nexus of offshore finance and the shadow banking system untouched.
April 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Important contribution by @simonschairer.bsky.social and colleagues on the evasion of carbon financing from traditional banks to the opaque shadow banking sector 👇
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🚨 New Working Paper published:
Out of the light, into the dark: how ‘shadow carbon financing’ hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk
🛢️💸🏝️
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A 🧵 with our main arguments:
Out of the light, into the dark: how ‘shadow carbon financing’ hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk
🛢️💸🏝️
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A 🧵 with our main arguments:
April 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🚨 New Working Paper published:
Out of the light, into the dark: how ‘shadow carbon financing’ hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk
🛢️💸🏝️
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A 🧵 with our main arguments:
Out of the light, into the dark: how ‘shadow carbon financing’ hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk
🛢️💸🏝️
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A 🧵 with our main arguments:
How can we finance a globally just sustainable transformation? In this piece with @naguila.bsky.social, @jwullweber.bsky.social we explore the need to reform the international monetary system for that purpose. Big thank you to @isrfoundation.bsky.social for publishing it and amazing editorial work👇
Towards a Green International Monetary System
Nicolás Águila, @paulahaufe.bsky.social and @jwullweber.bsky.social argue for the Ecor, a new international monetary tool, based on Keynes's Bancor, that could break the current impasse surrounding climate transition financing.
isrf.org/blog/towards...
Nicolás Águila, @paulahaufe.bsky.social and @jwullweber.bsky.social argue for the Ecor, a new international monetary tool, based on Keynes's Bancor, that could break the current impasse surrounding climate transition financing.
isrf.org/blog/towards...
Towards a Green International Monetary System
In this contribution to Bulletin 32, Nicolás Águila, Paula Haufe and Joscha Wullweber argue for the Ecor, a new international monetary tool, based on Keynes's Bancor, that could break the current impa...
isrf.org
February 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
How can we finance a globally just sustainable transformation? In this piece with @naguila.bsky.social, @jwullweber.bsky.social we explore the need to reform the international monetary system for that purpose. Big thank you to @isrfoundation.bsky.social for publishing it and amazing editorial work👇
What makes urban climate finance and where do the politics lie? - Look into this paper for an innovative and really productive analytical approach. Much appreciated contribution and highly recommended 🙌
I've got a new paper out with the brilliant @savannahcox.bsky.social & Emma Colven! We took a social studies of finance lens to explore the practices of 'framing, standardization & classification' that 'center' private finance at the core of urban climate action. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Centering work: toward more ‘social’ accounts of urban climate finance
In recent years, high-profile financial actors have developed a dizzying array of services and devices that promise to help cities devise ‘solutions’ to climate change. But what must happen for pri...
www.tandfonline.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
What makes urban climate finance and where do the politics lie? - Look into this paper for an innovative and really productive analytical approach. Much appreciated contribution and highly recommended 🙌
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Important, timely and very helpful paper. Do check it out!
🚨New paper by the Uni Witten SuFi Project in @finandsoc.bsky.social
Channels of influence in sustainable finance:
A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A 🧵 on our main arguments:
Channels of influence in sustainable finance:
A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A 🧵 on our main arguments:
January 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Important, timely and very helpful paper. Do check it out!
The who, what & how of Sustainable Finance has gotten very complex - Our new paper helps out conceptualizing Channels of Influence used by private financial actors to shape green transitions. We hope it is a helpful resource for scholars 📚, policy debates 🗞️, practitioners 🏦 and civil society 📣
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🚨New paper by the Uni Witten SuFi Project in @finandsoc.bsky.social
Channels of influence in sustainable finance:
A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A 🧵 on our main arguments:
Channels of influence in sustainable finance:
A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A 🧵 on our main arguments:
January 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The who, what & how of Sustainable Finance has gotten very complex - Our new paper helps out conceptualizing Channels of Influence used by private financial actors to shape green transitions. We hope it is a helpful resource for scholars 📚, policy debates 🗞️, practitioners 🏦 and civil society 📣
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Trump, Musk, Kickl, Orban, die AfD... Rechtsextreme sind auf dem Vormarsch.
Jetzt kommt es auf uns alle an.
Unsere Antwort: Wir stehen zusammen und wehren uns gegen den Rechtsruck. Wir werden den Rechtsextremen nicht unsere Zukunft überlassen.
Komm zum Lichtermeer für Demokratie und Zusammenhalt!
Jetzt kommt es auf uns alle an.
Unsere Antwort: Wir stehen zusammen und wehren uns gegen den Rechtsruck. Wir werden den Rechtsextremen nicht unsere Zukunft überlassen.
Komm zum Lichtermeer für Demokratie und Zusammenhalt!
January 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Trump, Musk, Kickl, Orban, die AfD... Rechtsextreme sind auf dem Vormarsch.
Jetzt kommt es auf uns alle an.
Unsere Antwort: Wir stehen zusammen und wehren uns gegen den Rechtsruck. Wir werden den Rechtsextremen nicht unsere Zukunft überlassen.
Komm zum Lichtermeer für Demokratie und Zusammenhalt!
Jetzt kommt es auf uns alle an.
Unsere Antwort: Wir stehen zusammen und wehren uns gegen den Rechtsruck. Wir werden den Rechtsextremen nicht unsere Zukunft überlassen.
Komm zum Lichtermeer für Demokratie und Zusammenhalt!
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I have published a short piece in German summarising recent work on International Financial Subordination. Mainly for my parents so that they know what I do:)
💲Die Finanzmärkte im globalen Norden zementieren Abhängigkeiten im globalen Süden. Aber was tun?
@anninak.bsky.social zeigt Auswege auf. 👇
@makronom.bsky.social makronom.de/wie-der-uebe...
@anninak.bsky.social zeigt Auswege auf. 👇
@makronom.bsky.social makronom.de/wie-der-uebe...
Wie der Überfluss an Finanzvermögen globale Abhängigkeiten schafft
Die „Internationale Finanzielle Subordination“ zementiert eine hierarchische Weltwirtschaft – die sich in instabilen Kapitalströmen, hohen Finanzierungskosten und der Dominanz des US-Dollars zementier...
makronom.de
December 17, 2024 at 11:33 AM
I have published a short piece in German summarising recent work on International Financial Subordination. Mainly for my parents so that they know what I do:)
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Der #Sozialstaat als „Hängematte“? Die wahren Zahlen zu Sozialleistungen sehen anders aus: Während der Missbrauch klein ist, verzichten Millionen auf das, was ihnen zusteht, zeigt eine aktuelle Analyse für unser @wsiinstitut.bsky.social 🤯
Aber Warum? 👉 www.boeckler.de/de/boeckler-...
Aber Warum? 👉 www.boeckler.de/de/boeckler-...
December 9, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Der #Sozialstaat als „Hängematte“? Die wahren Zahlen zu Sozialleistungen sehen anders aus: Während der Missbrauch klein ist, verzichten Millionen auf das, was ihnen zusteht, zeigt eine aktuelle Analyse für unser @wsiinstitut.bsky.social 🤯
Aber Warum? 👉 www.boeckler.de/de/boeckler-...
Aber Warum? 👉 www.boeckler.de/de/boeckler-...
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Wow. These are powerful remarks by Indermit Gill in his Foreword to the World Bank’s International Debt Report 2024, which has just come out. They are both timely and necessary as we approach the 4th FfD Conference, where discussions on an international solvency insolvency framework are critical.
December 10, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Wow. These are powerful remarks by Indermit Gill in his Foreword to the World Bank’s International Debt Report 2024, which has just come out. They are both timely and necessary as we approach the 4th FfD Conference, where discussions on an international solvency insolvency framework are critical.
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"By examining the intertwined relationships between finance, extraction, and transitions, researchers can gain insights into the power dynamics, contradictions, and alternatives shaping the future of energy production and consumption"
From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1874
From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1874
Unravelling the Geographies of the Green Transition: Understanding the Finance-Extraction-Transitions Nexus
By Tobias Franz and Angus McNelly The transition from fossil fuels to green energy in the 21st century – driven by the urgent need to address anthropogenic climate change – represents a monumental …
www.developmentresearch.eu
December 10, 2024 at 11:46 AM
"By examining the intertwined relationships between finance, extraction, and transitions, researchers can gain insights into the power dynamics, contradictions, and alternatives shaping the future of energy production and consumption"
From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1874
From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1874
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Pre-announcement! A little while ago @nathantankus.bsky.social asked me to write a short piece on wartime central bank independence, Schacht, Norman, the BIS and Nazi gold for his Notes on the Crises website. After a wonderful collaboration it is now ready and will appear tomorrow! Stay tuned!
December 4, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Pre-announcement! A little while ago @nathantankus.bsky.social asked me to write a short piece on wartime central bank independence, Schacht, Norman, the BIS and Nazi gold for his Notes on the Crises website. After a wonderful collaboration it is now ready and will appear tomorrow! Stay tuned!
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Central banks in financially subordinated countries act differently from CBs in the core, particularly during crises. In this paper, I study peripheral CBs' last resort intervention by looking at Argentina in 2020. Peripheral CBs face limits due to their position in the int'l currency hierarchy
Central Banking in Financially Subordinated Countries During Crises: The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic’s Response to the Pandemic in 2020
Central banks in financially subordinated countries face structural limits derived from the position of the currencies that they issue in the international monetary hierarchy. These constraints bec...
www.tandfonline.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Central banks in financially subordinated countries act differently from CBs in the core, particularly during crises. In this paper, I study peripheral CBs' last resort intervention by looking at Argentina in 2020. Peripheral CBs face limits due to their position in the int'l currency hierarchy
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Ich gebe Montagabend ein Online-Probeseminar "Klimakrise, Staat und Markt - wie die Transformation finanzieren", zugleich ein Schnupperabend für unseren B.A. Global Sustainability und B.A. PPÖ. Es wird Raum für Diskussion und Fragen geben. Studierende werden auch vor Ort sein lnkd.in/eRku2zgm
November 29, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Ich gebe Montagabend ein Online-Probeseminar "Klimakrise, Staat und Markt - wie die Transformation finanzieren", zugleich ein Schnupperabend für unseren B.A. Global Sustainability und B.A. PPÖ. Es wird Raum für Diskussion und Fragen geben. Studierende werden auch vor Ort sein lnkd.in/eRku2zgm
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🌎 #COP29 Analysebericht: Die Konferenz brachte keine echten Fortschritte im #Klimaschutz, ein Rückschritt wurde gerade noch verhindert. Alle Ergebnisse zu #Klimafinanzierung #Energiewende und mehr hier ausführlich nachlesen: wupperinst.org/a/wi/a/s/ad/...
November 28, 2024 at 9:38 AM
🌎 #COP29 Analysebericht: Die Konferenz brachte keine echten Fortschritte im #Klimaschutz, ein Rückschritt wurde gerade noch verhindert. Alle Ergebnisse zu #Klimafinanzierung #Energiewende und mehr hier ausführlich nachlesen: wupperinst.org/a/wi/a/s/ad/...
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In slightly longer form, what is becoming an annual rant about what the failures of this COP summit reveal about climate politics.
nickbernards.substack.com/p/if-this-wa...
nickbernards.substack.com/p/if-this-wa...
If this was the finance COP, where is the finance?
The 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan was hyped up in advance as the ‘finance COP’. High on the agenda for COP 29 was a revis...
nickbernards.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:48 PM
In slightly longer form, what is becoming an annual rant about what the failures of this COP summit reveal about climate politics.
nickbernards.substack.com/p/if-this-wa...
nickbernards.substack.com/p/if-this-wa...
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If, like me, you’ve been searching Bluesky for fellow @finandsoc.bsky.social participants, look no further! I’ve made a starter pack 👍
(DM me if I’ve missed you! I went by names on the programme but appreciate folk use different usernames etc)
go.bsky.app/EoRCUHE
(DM me if I’ve missed you! I went by names on the programme but appreciate folk use different usernames etc)
go.bsky.app/EoRCUHE
September 14, 2024 at 10:33 AM
If, like me, you’ve been searching Bluesky for fellow @finandsoc.bsky.social participants, look no further! I’ve made a starter pack 👍
(DM me if I’ve missed you! I went by names on the programme but appreciate folk use different usernames etc)
go.bsky.app/EoRCUHE
(DM me if I’ve missed you! I went by names on the programme but appreciate folk use different usernames etc)
go.bsky.app/EoRCUHE
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Apply now for the #BA #Global #Sustainability. #Climate #Justice #Transformation. A critical B.A. study (+practice) program about global political + economic transformation processes @Uni Witten/Herdecke. More Info: www.uni-wh.de/en/uwh-inter...
B. A. Global Sustainability
B. A. Global Sustainability: (Zahn-)Medizin, Pflege, Psychologie, Wirtschaft oder Kultur an der Uni Witten/Herdecke studieren - interdisziplinär, praxisnah und sozialverträglich.
www.uni-wh.de
June 12, 2024 at 7:13 AM
Apply now for the #BA #Global #Sustainability. #Climate #Justice #Transformation. A critical B.A. study (+practice) program about global political + economic transformation processes @Uni Witten/Herdecke. More Info: www.uni-wh.de/en/uwh-inter...