Sustainable finance and ESG investing

Sustainable finance and ESG investing course aims to enable students a comprehensive understanding of the term sustainability in the context of finance and investing, and recognize the concept of impact investing. Getting familiar with the term and importance of climate related disclosure by companies, related to ESG reporting, will help course participants to get basic knowledge to become responsible and informed investors in the near future.

Key topics:

• Introduction to investments; relationship between risk and return; the concept of diversification.
• Introduction to sustainable finance and ESG investing.
• ESG dimensions.
• European taxonomy: content and practices.
• Impact investing vs. ESG investing.
• Mandatory and voluntary environment for ESG and sustainability reporting.
• Critics of ESG measurements