Climate Change and Sustainable Investing Course
Beginner Level
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Climate Change and Sustainable Investing Course
This specialization aims to provide you with a better understanding of the complex relationships between climate change and economy and finance. By the end of the program you will have gained command over the tools allowing you to build an informed opinion grounded on scientific facts on the feasibility and effectiveness of current options to fight climate change. You will also understand the pros and cons of various policy approaches involved in the transition to a low carbon economy. Finally, you will learn how climate risks affect firm fundamentals and how to implement efficient low carbon investing strategies.
Applied Learning Climate Change and Sustainable Investing
This specialization aims to provide you with the tools allowing you to build an informed opinion grounded on scientific facts on the feasibility and effectiveness of current options to fight climate change. In addition you will get a chance, as a final capstone project, to work through a practical example of how to build an efficient low-carbon investing strategy.
What you will learn
The science of climate change
The economics of climate change
The finance of climate change
Understanding the evidence for climate change, and of its anthropogenic origin
Skills you will gain
Understand the various policy approaches involved in the transition to a low carbon economy including in particular "cap & trade" carbon markets
Learn to assess how climate change impacts financial portfolios and and how to manage climate risk in equity portfolios
Understand how climate change risks impact corporate decisions and company value
Understand the instruments investment funds and solutions used to finance clean technologies and clean energy
Understanding the evidence for climate change and for its anthropogenic origin
Understand the likely impacts on the real economy of the different courses of actions ahead of us
Evaluate projects on a portfolio basis the economic attractiveness of various abatement projects
Assess critically the economic desirability of different technologically feasible abatement technologies
Understand how climate change risk exposure affects corporate decisions and value
Map the financial risks and opportunities of climate change
Understand the instruments investment funds and solutions to finance clean technologies and clean energy
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