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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.