Our sustainability mission statement is aligned with KfW’s sustainability mission statement. The financing activities of KfW IPEX-Bank, carried out in the interest of the German and European economy, follow KfW’s promotional mandate. We are one of the leading providers of project and export finance worldwide and, as a subsidiary operating on commercial terms, we ensure the promotional activities of the promotional bank KfW with our strong earnings. As an active, skilled and reliable partner, we work together with the German and European export industry and our global corporate customers to shape the transformation of selected sectors towards a more resource efficient and climate conscious way of doing business in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

For this transformation process, we provide long term, viable financing. We support technological progress by developing appropriate financing solutions with the aim of improving and securing the livelihoods and quality of life of future generations. In doing so, we are guided by selected United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), for example on affordable and clean energy or sustainable industry.

We regard the transformation of global economic structures towards lower greenhouse gas emissions as an enormous challenge. It requires responsible long-term action, which must be further developed within a tight timeframe and in a concerted effort on both a national and international stage.

To give concrete shape to its framework for action, we, together with other areas of KfW Group, apply sector guidelines aligned with the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement. These guidelines are continuously refined for key sectors and form a basis for our credit decisions.

Together with the highly industrialised German and European export industries, we also aim to demonstrate how national climate protection targets can be reconciled with competitive economic development. To this end, we finance projects that reduce emissions or increase efficiency.

We are furthermore committed to the Equator Principles and thus take into account not only economic but also social and environmental aspects in our decision-making processes relating to lending.

Learn more: KfW Paris-compatible sector guidelines