Learn how corporate finance reports their ESG impacts.
Corporate Finance: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Holding businesses accountable for their impact
- What is ESG?
- Environmental: A corporation's responsibility for the Earth
- Social: A corporation's responsibility to its stakeholders
- Governance: A corporation's responsibility to its shareholders
- ESG: What are companies actually doing?
- Environmental: Carbon emission reduction, carbon capture, and carbon credits
- Social: Responsible supply chains
- Governance: Diversity, transparency, and independence
- Examples of ESG reporting
- Different sets of ESG reporting standards around the world
- International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)
- Are ESG disclosures audited by an outside third party?
- Triodos Bank: Example of an ethical bank
- Criteria used to identify companies included in ESG mutual fund portfolios
- ESG investing using a robo-advisor
- The long history of microlending
- Greenwashing: Unfairly creating a positive ESG reputation
- ESG activities and reporting in the mining industry
- ESG activities and reporting in the retail industry
- ESG activities and reporting in the food industry
- ESG activities and reporting in the financial services industry
- ESG activities and reporting in the airline industry
- ESG activities and reporting in the oil and gas industry
- Personal lessons from companies' ESG initiatives
Taught by
Jim Stice and Earl Stice
