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The aim of this course is to provide students with a set of quantitative tools and reasoning abilities that mirror those used by professional financial analysts, portfolio managers, and policymakers. While many of these skills will be universally applicable, this course grounds them in the application of addressing issues of sustainable finance. Asset managers report that USD 25 trillion of assets implemented Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) integration in 2020, up 143% from 2016. The soaring popularity of investing in ESG owes much to its advocates’ claims that it helps the end-investor with two challenges. First, climate change and related long-term societal risks increasingly have the potential to affect financial markets, especially over longer investment horizons. Asset owners want to ensure that their asset managers are properly considering these long-term risks. Second, end-investors want to align their investments with their values, especially around the achievement of the Paris Climate Agreement Goals and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This course aims to provide students with the knowledge needed to become a practitioner in the space of sustainable finance and will provide an understanding of the financial system, who the key parties are, and what sustainable financing options are available to market participants, especially across emerging markets. Further, this course will aim to test whether claims about sustainable finance, SDGs, and ESG standards are supported by empirical data.