Learning modules AI and sustainability

This page provides you with a very targeted a curated selection of learning materials on AI and sustainability / sustainable finance. Its content are being developed and will be ongoingly enriched in the course of Q3 2025.

SSF "AI and Sustainable Finance" eLearning series

SSF is a founding partner of the "AI Skills Coalition", one of the initiative by United Nation "AI for Good" platform. The AI Skills Coalition aims to bridge the global AI skills gap and ensure equal worldwide access to artificial intelligence training. It serves as the UN-led global platform for AI education and capacity building. The initiative operates on the principle that AI should benefit all of humanity, particularly in addressing the world's most pressing challenges outlined in the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

We have launched the first modules of this eLearning series:

Module 1, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence", provides with with an understanding of the key milestones in AI long history and selected key concepts: machine learning approaches, backpropagations, etc. 

Module 2, "Introduction to Sustainable Finance", provides the essential reminders on what sustaible finance is, its purpose, and how it operates.

Module 3, "AI applications for sustainable finance", provides comprehensive insights into AI use cases along a data-to-decision workflow: data extraction, curation, data insights and analysis, predictive analytics, content generation, etc.

Künstliche Intelligenz für Pensionskassen

This video from the Webinar organized by VPS (Verlag Personalvorsorge und Sozialversicherung) in June 2025 with a specific focus on pension funds. It provides key reminders on AI, and explores typical applications of AI for in finance, with a focus on pension funds. The video is in German.

Sustainability in the digital age: Environmental Impacts of AI Systems

Although this is not a content developed by SSF, we list here a course that we strongly recommend because it is state of the art on the topic: "Sustainability in the digital age: Environmental Impacts of AI Systems", developed by Stanford University for the Hasso Plattner Institute. Easy to access without prior AI knowledge, this course gives a comprehensive overview of the measurement approaches and challenges of the environmental impact of AI - be it in the training of the inference phase.

AI Essentials for Sustainable Investing

Simlarly, we also share here a 15-minute video from ClarityAI, a leading Fintech company in the application of AI to sustainable finance topics. This brief video provides interesting insights on three dimensions: (1) AI's potential to support accurate, up-to-date data and reduces greenwashing risks, (2) the benefits of alternative datasets like news sentiment and satellite imagery, and (3) brief insights into data visualization and analytics to support decision-making. A more comprehensive 3-part webinar can also be found here.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

This 1h introduction video provides you with the minimal understanding of AI's history and the technology of a neural network, AI's current capabilities and application examples, as well as critical risks to watch for. It is not specialized on the application of AI for the financial services sector, but provides a solid basis to understand the technology before moving to its application in finance.

Any suggestion, comment or question? Reach out to Romain Leroy-Castillo, Director & Artificial Intelligence lead at SSF