{"id":14048,"date":"2021-10-08T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/?p=14048"},"modified":"2021-10-08T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:38:50","slug":"teaching-esg-not-as-easy-as-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/teaching-esg-not-as-easy-as-abc\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching ESG, not as easy as ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genevasolutions.news\/sustainable-business-finance\/teaching-esg-not-as-easy-as-abc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14046 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/sincerely-media-dGxOgeXAXm8-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">More business schools and higher education institutions are integrating sustainable finance into their curricula. However, a lack of standardisation in a rapidly evolving sector is just one of the challenges that make it difficult to teach. We speak to some of the professors in Geneva shaking up the classroom.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Antoine Mach began teaching at the Geneva School of Business Administration (HEG) 10 years ago, sustainable finance was still perceived as a \u201cfuzzy\u201d concept in the corporate world \u2013 let alone in education and research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For finance professors, Mach says, it was a \u201cnew transdisciplinary concept that did not really fit into existing theories and categories in finance\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, as investors pour record amounts of money into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies, as regulators try to define common standards, and&nbsp;as companies make even more pledges to play their part in fighting climate change, sustainability has been brought more sharply into focus. <a href=\"https:\/\/genevasolutions.news\/sustainable-business-finance\/teaching-esg-not-as-easy-as-abc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/genevasolutions.news\/sustainable-business-finance\/teaching-esg-not-as-easy-as-abc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Geneva Solutions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More business schools and higher education institutions are integrating sustainable finance into their curricula. However, a lack of standardisation in a rapidly evolving sector is just one of the challenges that make it difficult to teach. We speak to some of the professors in Geneva shaking up the classroom.&nbsp;&nbsp; When Antoine Mach began teaching at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":14046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-14048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-news","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14051,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions\/14051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}