Course Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course students should be familiar with:
- Challenges to sustainable development and finance
- The role of business and finance for sustainability
- Basic terms and concepts in sustainable finance, ESG
- ESG data necessarily for assessing ESG performance
- Sustainability accounting and reporting frameworks, principles and standards
- Responsible investment, its drivers and its different strategies
- Sustainable financial products and services and how they benefit companies, investors and sociaty in a sustainable transition
- Tools and techniques to be integrated in financial analysis, investment analysis and portfolio analysis
- Analyze and research current issues and challenges in sustainable finance
CONTENT
1. Overview of Sustainable Finance |
2. Reporting and Disclosure |
3. The Challenges to Corporations posed by Sustainability |
4. Sustainable Financing and Investing |
5. Climate Change and Finance |
Methodology
The pedagogical approach will be based on active learning, flipped-learning and teamwork. The appropriate teaching method will be chosen depending on the learning objectives of each class session. During class, students will be discussing case studies, listening to lectures, watching and discussing videos, use tutorials, computerized applications, exercises, and personal coaching to lead students towards becoming a confident professional equipped with experience and the skill set needed in modern business.
All students are expected to prepare ahead of class. They should read the required cases and articles, contribute their ideas and to their teams, and come well prepared for class debate.
