Project Title: Corporate Sustainability & ESG/SDG Impact Finance

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Project Title Corporate Sustainability & ESG/SDG Impact Finance
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Perform research on projects related to Corporate Sustainability, ESG and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and aspects related to corporate strategy, impact investing, sustainable finance and reporting. --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 --Develop a taxonomy map with keywords, paired keywords, sentences and quantitative units associated with the top sustainability frameworks --Use supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques to expand the sustainability taxonomy, and identify relevant content from large files --Develop guides for corporate and investment sustainability strategies --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 --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. --Map the ecosystem of grants, crowdsourcing and other options in the areas of AI and data-driven sustainability, and develop a fundraising strategy
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Welcome, Spring 2022 Applicants!

Jan 12 2021

Application Launch for Spring 2022 Projects

Jun 12 2021

Resume Upload for Spring 2022 Projects

Jun 12 2021 Submission Required

Program Kickoff

Feb 14 2022 Event

Final Peer Evaluation Due

Apr 05 2022 Evaluation

Final Self Evaluation Due

Apr 05 2022 Evaluation

Deadline for Spring 2022 Projects

Jun 01 2022

Mid-Term Town Hall Presentations

Jul 03 2022

First Day of Classes

Teams Finalized & Sudents Notified

Reminder of Confidentiality

Temp Check #1 Due

Evaluation

Temp Check #2 Due

Evaluation

Final Town Hall Presentations

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