Sustainable Finance and Investment (EIB-B248)

Spring 2025 · EIB B248 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Designed for students with prior coursework and/or practice in finance and investments and interested in understanding the effects of environmental, social, and governance factors on financial decision-making. These include risks posed to the firm and its stakeholders resulting from such factors, as well as risks posed by the firm to its extended stakeholders. The course is structured as an intermediated seminar, i.e. sessions will be facilitated by lecture slides with active engagement expected. The course will examine key themes and developments in regulation, financial reporting, sustainability assessment (or ratings), investment analysis, and capital sourcing across a range of financial markets and asset types, including public equities, public debt, private equity, and infrastructure. Across asset types, key themes include climate risks and financing climate transition, blended capital and innovations in development finance, and fintech, financial inclusion and democratization. Central to the course design is to examine financial strategies and vehicles as tools to advance sustainability and impact objectives whether at the investor, state, or multinational level. To this end, it will introduce and leverage a variety of analytic tools to understand the basic decision models of sustainable and impact investing.

Course codes: EIB-B248

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