Project Title: Corporate Sustainability & ESG/SDG Impact Finance
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| Project Title | Corporate Sustainability & ESG/SDG Impact Finance |
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| Project Synopsis: Challenge/Opportunity | 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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Project Timeline
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Welcome, Spring 2022 Applicants! |
Jan 12 2021 | |
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Application Launch for Spring 2022 Projects |
Jun 12 2021 | |
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Resume Upload for Spring 2022 Projects |
Jun 12 2021 | Submission Required |
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Program Kickoff |
Feb 14 2022 | Event |
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Final Peer Evaluation Due |
Apr 05 2022 | Evaluation |
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Final Self Evaluation Due |
Apr 05 2022 | Evaluation |
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Deadline for Spring 2022 Projects |
Jun 01 2022 | |
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Mid-Term Town Hall Presentations |
Jul 03 2022 | |
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First Day of Classes |
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Teams Finalized & Sudents Notified |
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Reminder of Confidentiality |
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Temp Check #1 Due |
Evaluation | |
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Temp Check #2 Due |
Evaluation | |
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Final Town Hall Presentations |
Teams
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