Course Description

business world responsible organisations can no longer simply pay lip service to key global sustainability challenges like climate change, resource exhaustions, and inequality; investors and key stakeholders expect them to engage and actively manage the organisations impact in these areas. This leading-edge Sustainable finance training course will provide you with the fundamental principles and the relevant tools and insights you will need to help your organisation develop a sustainable approach to finance that will address these challenges and create value for the organisation, as well as its stakeholders and wider society.

Objectives

By the end of this Sustainable Finance training course, participants will be able to:

Master the aims and principles of sustainable finance

Understand key environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues

Identify impact on business and financial strategy

Develop meaningful tools for sustainable finance reporting

Build financial models to assess sustainable finance and other risks

Course Outline

DAY 1

Fundamentals of Sustainable Finance

Principles and foundation of sustainable finance

Environmental issues and concerns

Social issues and concerns

Governance issues and concerns

Ethical issues and concerns

Defining organisational scope for sustainable finance

DAY 2

Sustainable Strategic Management

Concepts of stakeholder value

The purpose of competitive companies

Principles and practice in corporate governance

Redefining competitive business strategy

Understanding business models and their disruption

Identifying key success factors

Using strategy maps to identify key performance indicators

DAY 3

Accounting and Reporting Sustainable Finance

The traditional financial analysis toolkit

Conventional measures of stakeholder value

Selecting the right key performance measures

Designing internal reports on sustainable finance

Principles of Integrated Reporting (IR)

DAY 4

Business Investment and Sustainable Finance

The challenges of sustainable investment

Scenarios for business model reinvention

Key decision factors for sustainable financial investment

Traditional tools of investment appraisal

Factoring in the environmental and social dimension

Limitations of conventional investment appraisal methods

DAY 5

Risk and Scope of Sustainable Finance

Traditional approaches to understanding business risk

Risk aspects from a sustainable finance perspective

Sustainable finance developments in banking

Sustainable finance developments in financial investments

Financial modelling of risk under sustainable finance conditions

The way forward in sustainable finance.