ProgramsFall 2022 Industry Capstone ProgramProjectsCorporate Sustainability and ESG Finance

Project Title: Corporate Sustainability and ESG Finance

Global AI

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Project Title Corporate Sustainability and ESG Finance
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Project Synopsis: Challenge/Opportunity
Perform research on projects related to Corporate Sustainability, quant ESG finance, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and aspects related to corporate strategy, impact investing, sustainable finance, alternative data, and sustainability reporting.

[NON-TECHNICAL]
  • Analyze and map the similarities between the most important regulations in the area of corporate sustainability and ESG, including the new European Union Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the IFRS Int'l Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), and the UN SDGs taxonomies.
  • Develop guides for corporate and investment sustainability strategies
  • Develop a taxonomy map with keywords, paired keywords, sentences, and quantitative units associated with the top sustainability frameworks
  • Map the ecosystem of grants, crowdsourcing, and other options in the areas of AI and data-driven sustainability, and develop and implement an NGO fundraising strategy focused on ESG/SDG projects

[TECHNICAL]
  • Identify, web scrape, and clean structured and unstructured data (text-based, official sources, open source satellite data, etc) related to sustainability, biodiversity, and climate from multiple sources
  • Use supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques to expand the sustainability taxonomy, and identify relevant content from large files
  • Apply statistical, ML techniques, and Bayesian approaches to analyze inter-linkages between multiple sustainability topics based on the normalized time series
  • Implement a database and data-driven dashboards with sustainability-related data
  • Apply AI and quantitative finance models to research, develop and implement risk management signals and algorithmic investment strategies based on ESG/SDG alternative data
  • Identify, implement and test early warning signals and volatility indicators based on alternative data
  • Perform back-testing, paper trading, and financial simulations, and create a set of functions in Github with documentation and examples based on ESG/SDG signals and others from unstructured data
  • Automate code for paper trading and implement dashboards to monitor strategies and input/modify parameters
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Project Timeline

Touchpoints & Assignments Date Type

First Day of Classes

 Sep 01 2022 Reminder

COPA Office Resources

 Sep 01 2022 Reminder

Initial Team Meetings

 Sep 06 2022 Reminder

Program Manager Outreach

 Sep 16 2022 Reminder

Temperature Check #1

 Oct 07 2022 Submission Required

Midterm Presentations

 Oct 17 2022 Event

Midterm Presentation Submission

 Oct 28 2022 Submission Required

Temperature Check #2

 Nov 11 2022 Submission Required

Final Presentations

 Dec 05 2022 Event

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 Dec 22 2022 Not Required

Post Engagement Survey

 Dec 22 2022 Submission Required

Final Presentation Submission

 Jan 09 2023 Submission Required

Program Managers

Name Organization
Christina Alwell Herbal Vineyards