The sustainable finance

The sustainable finance

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Summary

1. Presentation of the module…………………………….………………3

Week 1…………………………………………………………………………………………………….3

Week 2…………………………………………………………………………………………………….4

Week 3…………………………………………………………………………………………………….4

Week 4…………………………………………………………………………………………………….5

Week 5…………………………………………………………………………………………………….6

Week 6…………………………………………………………………………………………………….7

Week 7…………………………………………………………………………………………………….7

Week 8…………………………………………………………………………………………………….8

Bilan………………………………………………………………………………………………………9

2. Professional plus………………………………………………………..11

From the professional point of view, the sustainability finance was a very new notion………11

How the module has been useful to me……………………………………………………..………11
What I had to mobilize in terms of knowledge and skills and what I may have missed…..….12

3. Personal contribution…………………………………………………..13

The lessons I have learned………………………………..………………………………………….13
Differences of vision before and after…………………………………………………..…………..13

Possible applications in finance/management of sports or sports organizations…..…………13

4. Conclusion………………………………………………………………..15

5. Screenshot and test title……………………………………………….16

Overall certification…………………………………………….……………………………………..16

Week 1……………………………………………………………………………….……………….….16

Week 2……………………………………………………………………………….…………………..17

Week 3……………………………………………………………………………….…………………..17

Week 4……………………………………………………………………………….…………………..18

Week 5……………………………………………………………………………….…………………..18

Week 6……………………………………………………………………………….…………………..19

Week 7……………………………………………………………………………….…………………..19

Week 8 (Final week)……………………………………………………………….…………………..20

1. Presentation of the module

Coursea's course on the principles of Sustainable Finance was spread over 9 weeks with an average of between 20 and 40 minutes of video listening and between 20min and 2 hours of reading material related to the course in question. At the end of each week of the course, a test on the knowledge of the week was mandatory and a mark above a certain percentage allowed us to move on to the next week of the course. Each week has a relatively precise estimated working time, allowing us to get organized and gives an idea of the amount of work that needs to be done. The weekend quizzes are composed of about ten questions which can be both multiple choice questions but also "true" or "false" questions or simple choice questions.

(Week 1)

The first week of the course introduced us to the subject we were going to see in this module: the principles of Sustainable Finance. What are they? Sustainability is about the transition of companies from unsustainable to sustainable production practices. The Sustainable finance aims to internalise externalities by calculating an integrated value. We understood that innovation in data technology facilitates the calculation of integrated value and that the social and environmental aspects are incorporated in integrated value. As well as involving stakeholders improves the calculation of integrated value witch is a principle what is very new to us as we are not used to integrated these datas. Planetary boundaries define the ecological capacity of Earth, that is, the ability of Earth's ecosystems to maintain their condition and to produce goods and services that we humans use. There are several global sustainability challenges and there are translated into a global agenda: The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and there are 17 goals. The Stockholm Resilient Center has developed a system hierarchy for the 17 goals SDGs, also known as the wedding cake model witch is represented right below:[pic 1]

We saw exemples through the living wage that the UN SDGs are interlinked and creating a positive impact on one specific SDG can ignite positive impact on multiple SDGs. The social foundations reflect the minimum living standards for all human beings to lead a dignified live.

(Week 2)

During the second week of the course, we learned that for decades, economic theory has considered environmental and social factors as "externalities", i.e. they are not taken into account in the system. There are drawbacks to thinking that environmental and social factors are external to our system.

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