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B8349-001Finance and Sustainability

Postgraduate course

Project description

Finance & Sustainability provides a high level introduction to the financial tools that can be used to address sustainability across a broad range of issues, including environmental (eg biodiversity, climate change) and social challenges (eg poverty, education, housing). By design, this course does not provide a deep dive on any specific issue. This course is suitable for both MBA students planning a career in financial services who want to understand the potential impact of their work on issues of sustainability, and for students planning a career in social enterprise who want to understand the application of financial tools. Specifically, the course objectives are to: Understand the relationship between finance and sustainability. Analyze which financial tools are effective (as measured by both sustainable impact and the ability to earn a financial return), and which are not. Learn how the effective implementation of finance to address sustainability can be practically applied in a variety of contexts.