"Sustainability Trends in Business" is lecture series outlining the intersection between business, sustainability, and future.
The least bumpy road to a sustainable future goes through innovation and profitable business. Best business produce both financial profit and answer to some sustainability challenges, social or environmental.
This lecture series is a multi-disciplinary one; there are topics ranging from physics to ethics, and from sustainability regulation to demographic trends. The aim is to outline the most important forces shaping our future in the decades to come.
The main modules — each containing several videos — are:
1. Sustainability basics
- What is sustainability?
- State of climate.
- Science behind climate change.
- Ecosystem services and planetary boundaries.
2. Sustainability and businesses
- ESG & impact thinking
- Corporate culture and values
- Greenwashing
- Regulation & Investing
3. Energy
- Energy basics
- Energy use and production potential
- Electricity production
- Electricity market
4. Decarbonization and technology
- Renewable electric grid
- Hydrogen and P2X
- Decarbonized future world
- Sustainability & technology
- New wave of digitalization (a.k.a. AI)
- Digitalization and sustainability
5. Future Economy
- Climate, Energy & Money
- Circular Economy
- Sharing economy and other new models
- Global megatrends
The lecture videos are publicly available for anyone interested in the topic. Students taking this course (Turku School of Economics, LOGS13b) receive further information through other channels.
The course is lectured by Professor of Practice Ville Voipio.
