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BENV0149 ESSAY ASSESSMENT

This problem setting exercise will be used to assess your understanding of a range of topics and content covered in BENV0149. It will have to cover different points to be presented as problem-setting exercise, with a stipulated maximum length of 3000 words. This must be your own independent work, and cannot be done in collaboration with other students.

The problem setting exercise will be made available on week 5 of the course (during reading week). It will need to be submitted by 11:00 8 April 2024 via Turnitin link that will be made available on the “Assessment” part of the Moodle page.

A problem-setting exercise

A problem-setting exercise is a type of inquiry that requires you to not only provide an answer, but also to engage in a deeper exploration of a particular issue or challenge. Instead of simply asking for factual information, a problem-setting exercise prompts you to consider various aspects of a problem, evaluate potential solutions, and possibly even propose new insights or perspectives. Overall, this assignment encourages you to think critically, demonstrate a deep understanding of the topic, and showcase your ability to analyse complex situations beyond surface-level responses. To address the problem-setting exercise properly, you will need to draw on the course lectures, the wider reading list, and your own additional reading.

Climate finance as problem-setting exercise:

Many corporations have joined global initiatives to contain climate-related financial risks and capture new green business opportunities (e.g., Task Force for Climate Related Financial Disclosure, Net Zero Banking Alliance). A bank CEO asks your team about the risk the corporate and investment banking division would face in case of a sudden transition to net zero carbon emissions. Please elaborate on the measures that the bank can deploy to assess and address climate-related risks within its risk management and business strategy processes. Leverage the case studies to provide an assessment to the CEO about the exposure of the bank to such risks. Provide recommendations on how to mitigate climate related risks by aligning the bank’s portfolio to the net zero carbon transition. Furthermore, explore the challenges financial institutions face to integrate climate risk management and stress testing in their practices as well as the limitations of these approaches. In providing your answers explain such actions in the broader context of climate regulation, initiatives, and the role of central banks and financial supervisors. Outline the critical factors for consideration in implementing some of these initiatives framing these issues both from a policy and practice perspective.

Requirements of your essay on the problem-setting exercise

In responding to the problem-setting exercise, please include the following points in your essay:

1. Provide an introduction briefly outlining the main areas of focus and activities of financial institutions in the context of climate finance

2. Critically assess the challenges associated with integrating climate factors within risk management and business strategy processes

3. Ideally provide examples of real-life applications of these initiatives and describe conceptually how these methodologies work relying on publicly available examples

4. Explain how these initiatives fit within the current policy proposals and objectives of central banks and financial supervisors providing references to literature and regulations

5. Summarize your key recommendations to the CEO and reiterate the importance of the role of the private sector in the net zero carbon transition and in addressing climate-related risks

It is expected that you fully support your answer with appropriate references or with data from the case studies. Please give equal weight to each point in the problem setting exercise.

Some selected references to help you get started are provided below although this is far from a comprehensive list and these specific references do not need to be used. Please refer to the course reading list and other sources to reflect the wider literature (beyond the list below) in support of your answer. Please make use of financial institutions and policymakers’ reports to provide examples:

· Campiglio, E., Dafermos, Y., Monnin, P., Ryan-Collins, J., Schotten, G., & Tanaka, M. (2018). Climate change challenges for central banks and financial regulators. Nature Climate Change

· Bolton, P., Despres, M., Pereira Da Silva, L.A., Samama, F., Svartzman, R. (2020) The green swan. Central banking and financial stability in the age of climate change.

· European Central Bank - Economy wide climate stress test

· Bank of England – Climate stress test

· Science Based Targets Initiative

Please note, your findings need to be turned into actionable recommendations for the company to achieve desired goals. You should communicate effectively to senior stakeholders in order to allow them to take informed decisions. Any recommendations need to be accessible to a non-specialist audience. You need to explain any essential terms or concepts, but be very selective and consider how much you could reasonably expect the reader to understand.

Note that you are free to structure the essay as you feel most appropriate and which provides a logical flow as long as all points are covered. However, bear in mind the essay is intended to communicate effectively the key findings and recommendations of your assessment to senior stakeholders.

BEN0149 ESSAY ASSESSMENT: MARKING CRITERIA

This essay assignment will be marked based on the criteria set out below. Consider the balance of marks that will be awarded against the criteria when thinking about the structure of the essay.

Criterion	Weighting (%)	Description
Relevance	20%	Interpretation and relevancy of the content and discussion to the assessment question(s)/ aim(s)/ objective(s).
Knowledge and understanding	20%	Review and application of academic and/or grey literature and source material related to the module content and wider topic of climate finance.
Analytical reasoning	25%	Logic, integration, discussion and range of evidence-base and/or data (qualitative and/or quantitative in nature) to answer the assessment, as well as insight and reasoned questioning of assumptions.
Originality in argument	25%	Critical thinking and independent judgement in argument and/or problem-solving presented and connections made to the assessment, module content, and wider topic of climate finance.
Structure and communication	10%	Clarity, fluency and coherence of argument structure and organisation of assessment, correct spelling, punctuation and grammar, as well as accuracy and consistency of source citations and referencing style.

AI and use of sources in the assessment  

The strictly limited use of AI tools in accordance with the stipulations below is permitted, however, students who do not use AI at all for the assessment are not disadvantaged in any way in the marking criteria. By contrast, UCL rules on appropriate referencing and acknowledgement of sources apply to all assessments.

Use of AI

The BENV0149 assessment falls under category 2 of UCL’s AI policy. This means that you are permitted to use AI tools (such as ChatGPT) for specific defined processes within the assessment. This includes and is restricted to the following:

· Idea generation

· Essay structuring

· Summarise notes

If you do choose to use generative AI tools for the above processes, you will not be penalised. However, you must always critically evaluate any output it produces, and document your use of the tools so that it can be appropriately acknowledged.

Whilst we will allow the use of generative AI tools for specific processes, please avoid the use of such tools for generating content for the essay and analytical reasoning. Such tools can generate outputs that are inaccurate, untrustworthy, and full of errors. In addition, depending on how such models have been trained, they may not be reflecting the latest evidence or research covered in the course.

Academic integrity in acknowledgement and referencing of sources

UCL requires that you formally recognise and reference the existing knowledge and ideas on which your work is based. Any use of AI should be acknowledged in accordance with UCL referencing guidelines.

Regardless of whether you use AI or not, all the sources used for the assessment must be correctly cited in line with UCL’s academic integrity guidelines. Failure to acknowledge sources and AI in line with these guidelines could result in academic misconduct.

Further guidance may be found here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-learning/generative-ai-hub  and https://www.ucl.ac.uk/students/exams-and-assessments/academic-integrity/useful-resources

Penalties for late submissions

Planning, time-management and the meeting of deadlines are part of the personal and professional skills expected of all graduates. For this reason, UCL expects students to submit all coursework by the published deadline date and time, after which the following penalties will be applied:

Penalties for over-length coursework

Part of the skill in writing coursework assignments is to make the most efficient use of the words available within the given limit.  Complying with word limits is important as it helps students prepare for professional practice in many work situations and also because allowing some students to write more than others may give them an unfair advantage.

Please note that for all assignments in which a word limit is specified, this should be interpreted as a hard limit for the upper bound – i.e. you cannot write more than the specified word limit without incurring a penalty. Students may write fewer words than the specified word limit with no word count penalty, as long as they feel comfortable that they have covered all the requirements of the assessment and demonstrated they have met the marking criteria. 

Penalties for over-length coursework are given below:

In the case of coursework that is submitted over-length and is also late, the greater of any penalties will apply.

Reporting an inaccurate word count incurs a 10% mark penalty.

What is included in the wordcount?

The regulations are:

· Word counts include body text (from the title of the introduction to before the

references section) and the body-text part of your references (name, year).

· Abstract, table of contents, any list of figures and tables, acknowledgements,

references, appendices, footnotes, endnotes, diagrams and captions are excluded.

· Data tables - tables which collate raw data (for example, the tabulated responses to a questionnaire) should be included in an appendix and are therefore not counted.

· Students are advised that appendices and footnotes are to be used sparingly and must provide supporting information only. The content of these sections is not considered part of the main body of the assignment and will generally not contribute towards your grade. An electronic file must be submitted (Word format), with the word count clearly stated at the front.

If you are in any doubt, please discuss this with Module Lead/Programme Lead.

Extenuating Circumstances

Any student who is absent from an assessment without prior permission will receive a mark of 0.00%/ Grade F unless they formally request to defer their assessment to a later date by submitting a claim for Extenuating Circumstances with appropriate supporting evidence. If Extenuating Circumstances are not approved, the mark of 0.00%/ Grade F will stand and the student will be considered to have made an attempt.