Postgraduate Course: Carbon Markets and Carbon Finance (CMSE11066)
Course Outline
| School |
Business School |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
| Home subject area |
Common Courses (Management School) |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
The course aims to provide students with an understanding of the similarities and differences between conventional finance and carbon finance. It will share a practitioner?s knowledge of a very new and rapidly changing market, which is not yet widely documented in the available literature. Students will come away from the course with specific skills in the evaluation of risks and opportunities associated with carbon finance.
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Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
Only open to MSc Carbon Management and MBA students, and Chevening fellows.
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 09:00 - 10:50 | | | |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
After completing this course, students should be able to:
- Understand the nature of carbon markets as regulatory mechanisms for climate change mitigation
- Understand the main public policy frameworks behind the major global carbon markets, and have an appreciation for how they may change over time
- Appreciate the relationship between conventional project and corporate finance and carbon finance
- Understand how carbon credits are created and commercialised in the major mandatory and voluntary carbon markets
- Appreciate the regulatory risks associated with carbon credit creation, and the implications for financing emission reduction projects
Cognitive Skills
After completing this course, students should be able to:
- Critically evaluate press coverage of carbon finance issues
- Think analytically about the financial and strategic implications of climate change for business
- Critically evaluate alternative policy approaches to climate change
- Conceptualise key strategic considerations associated with climate change
- Cooperate with others from different professional, educational and cultural backgrounds to produce group analysis and present the results of group work
Subject-Specific Skills
After completing this course, students should be able to:
- Understand new developments in public policy frameworks for carbon markets, and evaluate the implications for businesses involved in financing carbon emission reduction projects
- Develop an understanding of how conventional financing products can be applied to raise finance for carbon emission reduction projects
- Be able to evaluate carbon finance project risks and opportunities, in broad terms
- Be able to understand, speak and write the language of carbon finance
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Assessment Information
Group presentations and report to class ? 40%
Written essay ? 60%
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| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Mr Francisco Ascui
Tel: (0131 6)50 8343
Email: Francisco.Ascui@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Ms Olivia Little
Tel: (0131 6)51 3013
Email: olivia.little@ed.ac.uk |
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