EUR - Principles of Sustainable Finance
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Principles of Sustainable Finance at Coursera Overview
Duration | 17 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Principles of Sustainable Finance at Coursera Highlights
- 20% started a new career after completing these courses.
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Principles of Sustainable Finance at Coursera Course details
- Finance is widely seen as an obstacle to a better world. Principles of Sustainable Finance explains how the financial sector can be mobilized to counter this. Using finance as a means to achieve social goals we can divert the planet and its economy from its current path to a world that is sustainable for all.
- Throughout this course, you will learn about the UN Sustainable Development Goals, how social and environmental factors should not be regarded as externalities, you will learn more about sustainable banking and asset management, about effective engagement, sustainable scenario analysis and long-term value creation.
- At the end of this course you will understand how sustainable finance can be used as a tool to steer the sustainability transition.
Principles of Sustainable Finance at Coursera Curriculum
The Sustainability Challenge
Trailer: welcome to the sustainability journey
The Sustainability Journey in Finance
Rockstrom's planetary boundaries and social foundations
The UN Sustainable Development Goals
Living wage: an example of sustainable finance
The role of finance
The three stages of sustainable finance
Introduction to week 1
Optional extra material
The linkage between the UN SDGs
Dealing with Sustainability Challenges
Social and environmental factors are treated as externalities
Perspectives of a skeptical manager
Government regulation and taxation
Business true pricing
Integrated value thinking
Sustainable scenario analysis
Introduction to week 2
Optional extra reading: Investing for Long-Term Value Creation
Optional extra reading material: summary of the chapter
Optional extra reading: Stern review the economics of climate change
Externalities
The Purpose of Companies
The ethical responsibility of companies
Shareholders versus stakeholders...
Corporate governance
Partnerships
The sustainability quotient
The purpose of companies
Recommended reading material
End of chapter quiz
Sustainable Business Models
The link between sustainability and strategy
Materiality: which issues matter most?
Integrated reporting and thinking
Long-term value creation by companies
Recap of week 3
Strategy and Intangibles
End of chapter 4 quiz
Sustainable Asset Management
Efficient market hypothesis versus adaptive market hypothesis
Academic evidence on sustainable investing
Complicated investment chains
Conditions for long-term investing
Value driver adjustment example
The case of Kraft Heinz and Unilever
Recap of week 4 and introduction to week 5
Case studies on sustainable valuation
End of chapter quiz
Sustainable banking
Obstacles of sustainable banking
Opportunities in sustainable banking
Corporate bonds
Sustainable lending
Circular business lending
Examples of sustainable banking
Recap week 5 and introduction to week 6
End of chapter 6 quiz
Climate risk & insurance
Trends in weather related catastrophes
Catastrophe models
Climate stress testing
Coping with climate change: mitigation and adaptation
Risks in countries around the equator
Recap of week 6 and introduction to week 7
Climate change finance
End of chapter quiz
Steering the transition
Steering the transition
Old and new visions for financial systems
Finance can help. What are you going to do?
Recap of week 7 and introduction to week 8
Final quiz
Take-aways: what can you do?
The power of one: a hopeful story
Our sustainability journey
Thank you!
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