{"id":175953,"date":"2021-03-31T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/trading-lessons\/course-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T14:01:27","slug":"course-overview","status":"publish","type":"trading-lessons","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/trading-lessons\/course-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"ESG Investing: Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the financial markets\u2019 focus on environmental, social, and governance issues has increasingly grabbed the attention of investors, this course aims to provide you with some basic concepts to help you better define what ESG is, including the rationale behind its inception, and how it has developed.<\/p>\n<p>Through its evolution, we\u2019ll also illustrate how ESG has helped shape not only sovereign and corporate strategies, but the financial products they\u2019ve made available for investors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4115 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/001_Did-You-Know.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 960px; aspect-ratio: 960\/540;\"><\/p>\n<p>For example, did you know that governments, supranational entities, and corporations may use proceeds from bond sales for the sole purposes of creating green projects, such as renewable energy, clean transportation, or wastewater management?<\/p>\n<p>Issuers have also introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icmagroup.org\/sustainable-finance\/the-principles-guidelines-and-handbooks\/social-bond-principles-sbp\/\">social bonds<\/a> to help finance social projects, such as affordable basic infrastructure, access to healthcare and education, as well as food security, and socioeconomic advancement.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll explore topics such as these as well as many others.<\/p>\n<p>And through the next series of videos, you\u2019ll learn how to identify and describe the basic principles underpinning the \u201cE\u201d, \u201cS\u201d and \u201cG\u201d in ESG, as well as obtain a brief background of ESG\u2019s origins, evolution, and its impacts on the economy and financial markets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4116 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/002_Intro_TriSplit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 960px; aspect-ratio: 960\/540;\"><\/p>\n<p>You should also acquire insights into certain global and domestic goals and frameworks that drive and support issuers\u2019 ESG agendas for economic, financial, and ethical 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