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Corporate Finance: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

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Overview

Learn how corporate finance reports their ESG impacts.

Syllabus

Introduction

Holding businesses accountable for their impact

1. An Overview of ESG

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

2. Examples of ESG Actions

ESG: What are companies actually doing?
Environmental: Carbon emission reduction, carbon capture, and carbon credits
Social: Responsible supply chains
Governance: Diversity, transparency, and independence

3. ESG Reporting

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?

4. ESG Investing

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

5. ESG Industry Examples

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

Conclusion

Personal lessons from companies' ESG initiatives

Taught by

Jim Stice and Earl Stice

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