ESG Investment and FinanceSummer Programme

Kick off presentation

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

Module 1: The Financial System and the Financial approach

• Institutions, instruments and markets
• Risk-return paradigm
• Green Monetary Policy
• The goals of financial regulators and role of European Central Bank

Module 2: ESG in investment portfolios

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

Module 3: Non-financial information: ESG data in corporate reporting

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

Module 4: The issue of financing – Firm’s possibilities

• Green Bonds
• Social Bonds
• Transition Bonds

Module 5: Ethical Banking

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

Module 6: Energy Transition and Decarbonization

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

Module 7: New challenges

• New trends & New products – the impact of Crypto currencies

Module 8: Regulatory streams

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

Module 9: Integrating ESG in financial analysis

• Integrating sustainability in finance
• Measuring ESG on investments

Module 10: Company visit (*)

• Role of ESG in corporate management
• Stakeholder engagement in ESG goal fulfilment
• Opportunities and threats of Artificial Intelligence in ESG goals management

Module 11: Group projects-presentations (*)

• Discussion of a company faced with ESG challenge
• Incorporation of ethics into ESG analysis
• Critical thinking of current ESG perspectives and goals