What you'll learn:
- What are the goals of the Paris Agreement, and how do they relate to Climate Change
- What does Net-Zero mean, and what the Transition to a Net Zero Economy means
- What is Sustainability, why it matters for Businesses and How it is changing the Economy
- Understand how Climate Risks become Financial Risks and their impact for Businesses and Banks/Investors
- Learn about the EU's latest Sustainability Regulations and best practices for avoiding Greenwashing
- Understand what it means for corporations to deliver on their Pledges to Reduce Emissions/Decarbonize Businesses
- Understand the key Trends, Metrics, and Frameworks that are required under ESG and Sustainability reporting
- Learn why implementing ESG criteria into Decision Making leads to better business outcomes
- Learn about Carbon Pricing, what are the Carbon Markets and their Trends
The topics discussed in the course are ones that appear in the press and social media every day, engaging more and more discussion and attention. This course explains the basic concepts and terminology behind Sustainability, ESG, Climate Risks and the developments in reporting/Disclosures.
The course is ideal for anyone who wishes to understand the concepts around Climate Change and Sustainability, be aware of what they mean and why they are important. It is a short course, that includes simple explanations and a few practical examples. The aim of the course is not to form experts in each of the topics, but to give anyone a fair understanding of them, so that they may engage in a conversation about the issue with someone, or better understand daily press and regulatory news, with a fair basis of knowledge.
The course explains what are Climate Risks, and why the concerns about their impact are leading companies and the Financial Sector to change their strategy and priorities. It explains why ESG is seen as a Risk Mangement Tool that helps companies be self critical of their impact in the society and planet but also creates resilience towards new evolutionary risks. In the course, I make the link between all these topics, leading to the understanding of why there isa new set of regulatory impositions towards analysing, measuring and disclosing ESG related risks.
These topics are very actual and evolve by the day, and sooner or later will become part of any business, company or financial institution, with implications in all levels of the organsations and in all job roles. I aim at bringing an introduction easy to understand that can help anyone at any level of an organization to embrace the changes that come with new sustainable strategies and the new goals and tasks that come ahead. All jobs will be at a certain point in time affected in some way by the Sustainability problematic, so I believe it is time for anyone to have the basic knowledge around these issues. The course brings value added to anyone who wishes to understand what this all means, flavored by someone who is hands on on real life implications, from decades of experience in managing and advising businesses.
