Students Reflection Blogs from their Sustainable Investing Research Consulting Project Experience.
This semester, my practicum work has changed my understanding of sustainable investment...
Over the past 3 months, my team has been focusing on a renewable energy certificate mechanism called Peace Renewable Energy Certificate (P-REC) intended to support financing off-grid renewable energy projects in fragile and energy-poor settings...
Sustainable investing is a concept trying to lead capital to develop environmental and social friendly projects...
I spent part of my early career doing strategic consulting work, and I often had a frustrated feeling that our analysis was "intellectually neat but operationally thin"...
Developing the AI longevity platform this semester altered my thinking process concerning sustainable investing...
In exploring the carbon market and their database, I learned that there are different carbon investment products that expose investors to different levels of risk...
Before this course, I tended to think of sustainable finance in broad terms. To me, it meant channeling capital toward environmentally or socially beneficial activities...
This past semester, I had the opportunity to work on a Practicum project that benchmarked how major stock exchanges across the G20 provide ESG disclosure guidance to their listed companies...
A few weeks into this Practicum, working alongside an international organization that deploys blended capital in least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states (SIDS)...
Because of the fast growth of artificial intelligence, sustainable finance has to deal with a question that is both practical and urgent: can capital markets keep up with the environmental effects of digital growth?
Sustainable finance is often discussed as though its central question is one of alignment: can financial markets support environmental goals without sacrificing the returns?