Course: Sustainable Finance: Using the Power of Money to Change the World

In November 2021, the 26th COP talk place in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. This video introduces the COP and then includes an interview with Pascal Canfin, a Renew …

Loss and Damage is a phrase used in climate negotiations to describe the damage caused to countries in the global South by the historic emissions of countries of the global …

You’ve come to the end of the course but there are many ways that you can continue learning about sustainable finance, and putting the knowledge you have gained into practice. …

I heard a number of issues that I think are crucial to decide how we can go forward as a world in tackling the climate crisis. First, we heard several …

Molly Scott Cato interviewed people at the Green Gathering, in Wales in 2022, and asked them to say in 30 seconds what Climate Justice means to them.

COP stands for ‘conference of the parties’, using parties in the sense of countries signed up to something. In this case the ‘parties’ are countries that have signed up to …

Politicians can use their powers to tighten up on standards in market and their powers to oversee financial regulation to introduce a kind of pincer movement to direct the economy …

As discussed in the audio that follows, some countries are responsibile for far more of the planet’s CO2 burden than others. Those countries have grown rich through producing carbon dioxide. …

The EU has been working for some years to produce a clear way of defining what is sustainable economic activity and what is not. In a typical example of Eurospeak …

In the video we see inside the European Parliament’s Committee on Economics and Monetary Affairs and we hear from their rapporteur on the Taxonomy, Bas Eickhout. He explains why he …

Investigate how the Bank of England wasted money created through quantitative easing since the financial crisis

Central banks play a powerful role in our economies, regulating the creation of money through bank lending and also purchasing assets to create money directly, in a process known as …

It’s a cliché to say that companies are obsessed with the ‘bottom line’, which is a polite way of saying they are entirely driven by maximizing profit. In fact, this …

Greenwashing is a dangerous technique some companies use to imply they are more green than they really are. Watch this video to learn more and understand the techniques companies use.

We’ve learned a lot about how reporting works and the role of accountants. We’re going to take a sideways step in Week 4 to think about the role of banks …