Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability (FECS)

Harvard FAS

Doctoral level review of theory and practice of climate finance. FECS assumes prior doctoral level training in finance and/or economics. We briefly review basic climate science and fundamentals of finance and economics as applied to climate and nature issues (eight hours). The core of the course then covers recent research on climate and asset pricing (four hours); investment management (four hours), corporate finance (two hours), banking and insurance (two hours); and…