ESG Investment and FinanceSummer Programme

Module 1: First steps towards ESG

• Contextualization – What is ESG and why is it coming
• The big picture - Looking at the data
• History and ESG development – International differences

Module 2: The Financial System and the financial approach

• Institutions, instruments and markets
• Risk-return paradigm
• Green Monetary Policy

Module 3: ESG in investment portfolios

• ESG criteria integration in portfolio formation
• Alternative approaches to form portfolios
• ESG as an alpha generator

Module 4: Integrating ESG in financial analysis

• Integrating sustainability in finance
• Measuring ESG on investments

Module 5: Impact investing, Venture Philanthropy, and Social Entrepreneurship

• Context - Impact Economy
• Financing strategies - impact investing and venture philanthropy
• Social entrepreneurship

Module 6: The CO2 market

• A new asset type
• Economic impact on companies

Module 7: The need for accurate data

• Sources of information in addition to traditional ones

Module 8: Regulatory streams

• The European Union in sustainable finance
• New trends outside Europe

Module 9: Non-financial information: ESG data in corporate reporting

• Present and future of sustainability information in corporate reporting
• Best practice of ESG information

Module 10: The issue of financing – Firm’s possibilities

• Green Bonds
• Social Bonds
• Transition Bonds

Module 11: Energy Transition and Decarbonization

• Barriers to the decarbonization of the economy
• The role of Governments in the energy transition
• The place of markets in the energy crisis

Module 12: Ethical Banking

• Driving forces for the emergence of Ethical Finances sector
• Ethical Finances: Conceptualization and Networks
• The european efforts towards defining sustainable banks: an ethical perspective

Module 13: Green Monetary Policy

• The goals of financial regulators
• The role of the European Central Bank

Module 14: New challenges

• New trends
• New products - the impact of Crypto currencies

* Programme subject to change.