THEORY OF SUSTAINABILITY B

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Subtitle	Learn about environmental finance
Lecturer(s)	MORITA, KANAKO
Credit(s)	2
Academic Year/Semester	2025 Fall
Day/Period	Tue.2
Campus	Mita
Class Format	Face-to-face classes (conducted mainly in-person)
Registration Number	19863
Faculty/Graduate School	ECONOMICS
Department/Major	ECONOMICS Type A, B
Year Level	3, 4
Field	MAJOR SUBJECTS ELECTIVE
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K-Number	FEC-EC-35183-212-64

Course Administrator	Faculty/Graduate School	FEC	ECONOMICS
Course Administrator	Department/Major	EC	ECONOMICS
Main Course Number	Level	3	Third-year level coursework
	Major Classification	5	Major Subjects Course- Advanced Course
	Minor Classification	18	Lecture - Environment
	Subject Type	3	Elective subject
Supplemental Course Information	Class Classification	2	Lecture
	Class Format	1	Face-to-face classes (conducted mainly in-person)
	Language of Instruction	2	English
Academic Discipline		64	Environmental conservation measure and related fields

Course Contents/Objectives/Teaching Method/Intended Learning Outcome

Focusing on "finance" as an essential element for societal systems transformation to achieve a sustainable society, this class will explain the current role of finance in the sustainable development and environmental fields and their theoretical background.
This class focuses on the two types of environmental finance. One is finance related to international cooperation in which developed countries and others financially support developing countries to promote environmental measures in developing countries. Engaging both developed and developing countries under international environmental conventions such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity is important. This class will explain financial mechanisms under the environmental conventions (e.g., the Global Environment Facility) and environmental actions of multilateral and bilateral aid agencies.
The other is the growing trend toward greening the financial system and the economy from the perspective of stabilizing the financial system. Beyond international environmental conventions, there is now an increasing number of initiatives by financial institutions and companies to address sustainability. This class will introduce the expansion of environmental finance and its challenges today, introducing trends related to the United Nations, current discussions on sustainable finance and responses to climate and nature-related risks by financial institutions and companies, and the relationship with international environmental conventions. This class will also discuss the expansion of environmental finance and its related governance.