Sustainable finance and environmental responsibility

Teaching results

The main learning outcomes that students will gain after completing the course are knowledge of current environmental issues as well as opportunities for environmental improvement through funding - from both the public and private sectors. Including the possibility of using alternative sources of funding, public-private partnership models such as voluntary agreements. The aim of the course is to extend the objective of finance, which is to maximise the monetary and non-monetary gains of an economic entity, to include a sense of overall well-being expressed in terms of developmentally higher needs such as social needs, environmental impacts, the need for self-fulfilment and the meaningfulness of one's activities.
Knowledge and understanding
- Apply and appropriately use the theories and tools of classical economics, maximizing individual utility or profit, and/or the market value of the enterprise/state.
- Understand the broader context and consequences of the decisions made by economic agents not only on immediate economic outcomes but also on social, environmental and policy impacts - ESG.
- Acquire the latest theoretical knowledge required for scholarly work in environmental finance.
Skills
- The student is able to think critically, analyse problems in the field of financial economics and use a broad set of decision-making tools to respond competently to situations as they arise. Group work will encourage teamwork and its presentation will encourage discussion and argumentation.
Competencies
- The student can work as an individual or as a leader of a professional team in the field of sustainable finance and socially and environmentally responsible financial management