FMKT 342S
Marrs Climate Change and Financial Markets
Lee Alexander Reiners, Marilyn Ceci
Description from DukeHub
Course focuses on finance's critical role in combating, adapting to, & mitigating impact of climate change. Students develop foundational and comprehensive understanding of facts, challenges, and issues associated with climate change and its intersection with financial markets. Course addresses role of sustainable investing including investor reliance on ESG factors. Students will learn about new financial instruments designed to facilitate transition to green economy, the US's complex regulatory structure & diverse roles of government and financial regulators in responding to effects of climate change. Course focuses on finance's critical role in combating, adapting to, & mitigating impact of climate change. Students develop foundational and comprehensive understanding of facts, challenges, and issues associated with climate change and its intersection with financial markets. Course addresses role of sustainable investing including investor reliance on ESG factors. Students will learn about new financial instruments designed to facilitate transition to green economy, the US's complex regulatory structure & diverse roles of government and financial regulators in responding to effects of climate change. Prerequisite: ECON 101D, and FMKT 256 or FECON 372.
Skills
- financedescription: "finance" and 7 more
- policy and lawdescription: "regulatory" and 5 more
AI-resilient: 1 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- No: Judgment someone is accountable for
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 18 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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