Climate Finance Initiative | Climate Finance Course

Professor Johannes Stroebel teaches an elective course in climate finance, Climate Finance: An Economic and Financial Approach to Climate Change, to both undergraduate and graduate students.

This class thinks about the effect of climate change on the overall economy; studies the risks and opportunities that climate change holds for firms and financial institutions, including distinguishing between a variety of types of risk; discusses how financial markets can help transfer and hedge climate risk; explores the economic and financial foundations of potential climate regulation; and analyzes how climate risk interacts with other risks, such as the risk of future pandemics and geopolitical risks.

View the 2023 undergraduate course syllabus.
View the 2023 graduate course syllabus.

In addition to coursework and classroom discussions, guest lecturers with real-world expertise in this area speak regularly in class.
Recent speakers include:

Kristian S. Blickle
Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Keith Breslauer
Managing Partner, Patron Capital

Jake Carr
Director of Research, Moody’s Analytics

Lia Cairone
New York City Office of Management and Budget

Lucia Tian
Head of Clean Energy & Decarbonization Technologies, Google

Martina L. Cheung
President, S&P Global Ratings

Scott Corwin
Senior Managing Director, US Leader for Sustainability & Climate Change, Deloitte

Joseph H. Davis
Chief Economist and Head of Investment Strategy Group, Vanguard

Rui Dong
Managing Director and Trader, Discretionary Energy, The D. E. Shaw Group

Christian Hannemann
Diplomat, German Permanent Mission to the United Nations

Alex Inkster
Partner, Kimmeridge

Hyeyoon Jung
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Ilya Khaykin
Partner, Oliver Wyman

Xiaodi Li
Economist, Moody’s Analytics

Matthias Pitkowitz
Founder & CEO, EQX Biome

Lukasz Pomorski
Managing Director and Head of ESG Research, AQR Capital Management

Paull Randt
Vice President, Citigroup

Eugenie Schwob
Sustainability Risk Manager, BlackRock

Chavon Sutton
Senior Investment Director, Cambridge Associates

Mervyn Tang
Head of Sustainability Strategy, APAC, Schroders

Michael Yamoah
Director, EOS, Federated Hermes