Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friends,
It is a great pleasure to welcome you all to the conference “Next Generation Central Banking: Climate change, inequality, financial instability”. My name is Barbara Unmüßig and I am the president of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
This is probably the first really big conference in Europe on to discuss the responsibilities of Central Banks beyond price stability. It is also so far the biggest event of the project “Transformative Responses to the Crisis”, that the Heinrich-Böll Foundation and Finanzwende started in spring 2020.
The purpose of this Project Transformative Responses: to develop and advance new ideas that could help Europe move forward on the much needed socio-ecological transformation of our economies in the context of the the crisis induced by COVID-19.