Sustainable Investing Courses and Certifications

Career Certificate

The Materiality of ESG Factors

1359 ratings at Coursera

Examine ESG investing through the five pathways of materiality, positive and negative screening, private environmental governance, climate disclosures, and corporate responses to social activism.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

ESG Impact: Investor Perspective

241 ratings at Coursera

Evaluate ESG factors as an investor: apply positive and negative screening, weigh climate, diversity and governance risks, spot greenwashing, and compare ESG ratings protocols like MSCI.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Interactive Brokers Career Certificate

ESG Investing: Financial Decisions in Flux

127 ratings at Coursera

Explore how ESG investing evolved: standards and frameworks, industry impacts, ESG fixed-income instruments and thematic ETFs, and Big Data, NLP and sentiment analysis for accountability.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Interactive Brokers

ESG Investing: Setting Standards & Conducting Analysis

72 ratings at Coursera

Learn what the "E", "S" and "G" stand for, trace ESG's roots in socially responsible investing, and build strategies like exclusionary screening and integration.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Interactive Brokers

ESG Data & Accountability

37 ratings at Coursera

Evaluate ESG investments with data: weigh big data, AI scoring and alternative sentiment signals from news and social media, and spot green, social and pink washing.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Interactive Brokers

ESG Investing: Industry Impacts & Transformations

25 ratings at Coursera

Analyze how ESG risk factors are transforming the dairy, tobacco, energy and forest products sectors, assess high yield credit impacts, and weigh commodity plays in the battery value chain.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Interactive Brokers

ESG-focused Financial Products

15 ratings at Coursera

Analyze green assets: green, social and sustainability-linked bonds, ICMA issuance principles, the greenium effect, and index-based ESG ETFs from iShares and Vanguard.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Climate Change and Sustainable Investing

425 ratings at Coursera

Build an informed view of climate change from science to markets: assess mitigation options, weigh policy approaches, and implement low-carbon investing strategies.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Introduction to ESG

848 ratings at Corporate Finance Institute

An overview of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework

• Corporate Finance Institute
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

ESG Risks and Opportunities

783 ratings at Coursera

Learn how ESG factors create financial value: map the five pathways of materiality, assess ESG data providers, optimize portfolios, and build stakeholder-based risk management plans.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Climate Risk Management

38 ratings at Corporate Finance Institute

This course is an introduction to the risks that climate change poses to individual businesses and to the global financial system more broadly

• Corporate Finance Institute
• 1 hour 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The A to Z of ESG - Environmental & Social Governance

10705 ratings at Udemy

A Perspective for Businesses on How to Manage ESG - Why it matters to Financial Performance and to the Economy

• Udemy
• 2 hours 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Inclusive Green Finance (IGF) Policies

Explore IGF and the IGF policymaking, and gain a deeper understanding of AFI’s 4Ps Framework of IGF.

• OpenLearning
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Principles of Sustainable Finance

1928 ratings at Coursera

Finance can drive the sustainability transition rather than block it: study the UN SDGs, sustainable business models, sustainable banking and asset management, climate risk, and long-term value creation.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Raising Impact Investment Capital

71 ratings at Coursera

Raise capital from mission-aligned investors: navigate the impact investing marketplace, build financial models and pitch decks, plan outreach, and negotiate deal terms.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses