BUS400 Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability

Climate change is one of the most critical issues facing the planet and will require massive flows of capital. Finance will be instrumental in facilitating the transition to lower-carbon economies. The course covers current research in the field of climate finance. It is designed to train academics who will conduct research and teach in the field of climate finance. It seeks to be an important, timely, and catalytic development in the climate finance space designed to develop the next generation of scholars and educators in this field and to create a community of researchers in this field.

In the course, students will learn basic science of climate change, the roles of climate change in economic and finance theory, asset pricing, accounting and corporate carbon disclosure, investment management, corporate and household finance, and financial institutions.