Course Content and Daily Breakdown
- Environmental, Social, and Governance Issues
- A stakeholder approach to governance and ESG
- Internalizing externalities
- Introduction to the Corporate Sustainable Reporting Directives and challenges created for business
- Introduction to Sustainable finance and how its impacting business
- Develop insights into sustainable assets and markets, their development and their uses in business
- Examine the performance and trends of sustainable vs traditional assets and markets
- Socially responsible ESG Investing
- Develop knowledge of risk, return and pricing relevant to socially responsible investment
- Climate Risk
- Physical Risk
- Transition Risk
- Implications of climate risk for financial markets
- Implications of climate financial risk for companies
Meet the Faculty
Our dedicated team of faculty are widely recognised as skilled educators, ground-breaking researchers and accomplished authors. Through publishing, consulting and teaching they leverage their business expertise and field-based research to deliver programmes, encourage participants to develop new ways of thinking, widen their perspectives and to understand their own challenges and capabilities.
The faculty present topics via a range of engaging methods such as ‘action learning’ projects, case studies, role plays, individual assessment and one-on-one coaching, so as to deliver a unique and lasting learning experience.
Julie Byrne is Associate Professor of Finance at the UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business. She is co-PI and finance theme lead on the €16million Next Generation Energy Systems (NexSys) Partnership Programme, a leading researcher at the UCD Energy Institute, and the co-Director of the UCD Centre for Business and Society. Her research incorporates ethical and moral considerations, as well as financial considerations into the decision-making process to deliver solutions for a Just Transition.
John Cotter is Full Professor of Finance and the Chair in Quantitative Finance at University College Dublin. He is Chairperson of the Banking and Finance Department at UCD and is a Member of the Group of Economic Advisers for the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA), the supra-national supervisor of European financial markets. John has had visiting positions at UCLA, London School of Economics, Yale University, University of British Columbia, Victoria University Wellington and ESSEC Business School. An expert in Sustainable Finance, especially ESG investing and sustainable assets, he is Director of the Financial Mathematics and Computation Cluster (FMC2) a multi-university, multi-disciplinary research body examining issues in this space.
Tom Conlon is Professor of Finance at the UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business. A leading authority on sustainable finance risk management, he is lead Scientist for an NGO setting emissions reporting standards appropriate for financial contracts. His research studies the management of risks arising from anthropogenic climate change. He regularly engages in industry-led thought leadership covering all aspects of sustainable financing.
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