At-A-Glance

Overview

Leveraging interdisciplinary expertise and world-class capabilities, UMD's Climate Finance & Risk Management Program has created a unique, integrated approach to climate change analysis across various scientific, financial and risk management disciplines. The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences and the Smith School of Business have joined together to provide mid-career, senior management and board members of financial and nonfinancial companies, federal, state, and local managers and executives and nonprofits with the concepts and tools to improve their organization’s ability to disclose, measure, manage and oversee the impacts on climate change on their activities.  Learn how to interpret weather and climate information and how to integrate that information into financial and risk management disclosures and assessments to support operational, planning, and risk management decisions.

Meet the Instructors

Dr. Bob Brammer (MA '70 PhD '72 Mathematics) is the President and CEO of Brammer Technology, a consultancy focusing on advanced information technology, environment and climate, and security.  He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and the Department of Finance at the University of Maryland, the Chair of the Cleantech and Climate Change Committee of the American Bar Association, a Fellow in the American Meteorological Society, and a certificate holder in Sustainability and Climate Risk in the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

Dr. Tim Canty is an Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science in the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland.  He is the Director of the Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences graduate program and Co-Director of the Undergraduate and Professional Masters Programs in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science. His research is on air quality science and policy, stratospheric ozone, and climate change.

Dr. Clifford Rossi is an Executive-in-Residence and Professor of the Practice at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Prior to entering academia, Rossi had nearly 25 years of experience in banking and government, having held senior executive roles in risk management at several of the largest financial services companies.

Learn More

Please send an email to climatefinance@umd.edu.

Course Notice: Non-credit courses and Continuing Education Units (CEUs) do not post to the University of Maryland transcript and do not count towards a student's academic record. Neither grade nor credit is earned. Non-credit students do not receive a University ID card nor access to University facilities such as recreation, transportation, and campus events. Non-credit students may access UMD Libraries as Visitors; see https://www.lib.umd.edu/about/visitors.