Climate Aware Investing
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Climate Aware Investing at Coursera Overview
Duration | 15 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Climate Aware Investing at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a Certificate upon completion
- Financial aid available
Climate Aware Investing at Coursera Course details
- Introduced to the latest academic research findings and the most commonly used methods in industry to cope with climate change financial risks
- This course starts with an overview of climate change and the tools at the disposal of policymakers to curb this phenomenon
- These tools, when used to their fullest extent, will have a big impact on businesses and this impact may spill over into the financial markets even before the policies are fully implemented
- The risks associated with these changes are grouped under the definition of transition risks
- In this MOOC we will analyse these risks and also discuss the methodologies most widely used by asset managers to manage their portfolios' carbon exposure
- The final module of this course shows a real-world example of implementation
Climate Aware Investing at Coursera Curriculum
From climate science to climate finance
Causes & Consequences ?of Climate Change
Economic roots of climate change
Internalizing the externality
The landscape of climate finance
Climate aware investing
Climate Risk and ESG Investing
Course overview
Material at your disposal
Additional material - Module 1
Module 1-Graded Quiz
Measuring climate risk in equity portfolios
Motivations for climate risk management
Type of climate risks: physical versus transition risks
Climate Related Financial Disclosure
Climate risks and ESG: indicators & providers
Measure of Carbon emissions
Heterogeneity in ESG & climate risk related measures
Additional material - Module 2
Module 2-Graded Quiz
Impact of climate risks on equity portfolios
Carbon intensity versus carbon footprint measures
Sector biases in climate investing
Climate risks and Security selection decisons
Impact of low carbon filter
Carbon intensity and Equity performance
Carbon intensity and Equity performance - A closer look
Additional material - Module 3
Module 3-Graded Quiz
Managing climate risk in equity portfolios
Carbon price exposure and equity risk
Improve carbon beta estimates
Measuring and Managing carbon risks in equity portfolio
Benefits and limits of active investing
The rise of passive investing
Passive climate aware investing
Additional material - Module 4
Module 4-Graded Quiz
Designing a low-carbon tracking-index portfolio
Risks and rewards in equity portfolios
Designing a replication strategy
Replication strategies with carbon constraints
Case study - Preparing the data
Case study - Carbon efficiency and tracking error
Case study - Positive and Negative Screening
Case study
Additional material - Module 5
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Module 5-Graded Quiz
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