Simply recognizing global sustainability issues such as climate change, resource depletion, and inequality is no longer enough for businesses. Investors, stakeholders, and the public now expect organizations to take meaningful action and manage their impact on these critical challenges. The Certificate in Sustainable and Green Finance training course is designed to equip professionals with the essential principles, tools, and insights needed to incorporate sustainability into financial strategies. By attending this training course, participants will be prepared to guide their organizations in adopting a financial approach that addresses global challenges while also creating long-term value for the business, its stakeholders, and society at large.
Throughout this training course, participants will examine current financial practices, trends, and emerging opportunities in sustainable finance. The training course will explore how pressing environmental and social issues are shaping business strategies and influencing financial systems. Delegates will gain the expertise needed to foster innovative approaches for creating more sustainable business models and deepen their understanding of the finance sector's role in advancing the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable future. This training course will empower participants to drive change within their organizations and contribute to the global pursuit of a sustainable future.
The Energy Training Centre training course will highlight:
- The growing demand for businesses to address sustainability challenges like climate change and inequality.
- Essential principles, tools, and insights for integrating sustainability into financial strategies.
- Strategies to help organizations adopt financial approaches that deliver value for both business and society.
- Current trends and emerging opportunities within sustainable finance.
- The impact of environmental and social issues on business strategies.
- The role of the finance sector in driving the transition to a low-carbon economy.
- Approaches to developing sustainable business models.
- How to contribute to global sustainability efforts by driving change.
This training course is split in two modules:
MODULE I - Sustainable Finance
MODULE II - Green Finance
Each modules is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates with will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.
By the conclusion of the Certificate in Sustainable and Green Finance training course, participants will be able to:
- Gain an in-depth understanding of sustainable finance’s objectives and principles.
- Explore the main environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges.
- Assess the impact of sustainability on business and financial strategies.
- Develop effective tools for sustainable finance reporting.
- Build financial models to evaluate opportunities and risks in sustainable finance.
- Identify suitable green products or services for funding sustainable projects.
- Learn the guidelines for preparing projects that qualify for green finance.
- Understand the role of financial technology in advancing green and sustainable finance.
The Certificate in Sustainable and Green Finance training course will be delivered in a dynamic, interactive format, incorporating a mix of learning methods. Each session will include formal presentations on key concepts and tools, combined with group discussions, real-world examples, and collaborative case study work.
Organizations will experience the following benefits when delegates attend the Certificate in Sustainable and Green Finance training course:
- Achieving sustainable growth
- Successfully completing more sustainable projects
- Making more informed and effective financial decisions
- Developing finance solutions that meet both organizational and societal needs
- Encouraging innovation and improving project quality
- Leveraging eligible green assets to transition the business toward net zero
- Identifying opportunities to invest in green projects
- Cultivating a forward-thinking workforce aligned with emerging trends and regulations
- Aligning reporting with evolving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards
- Enhancing strategic outlook and strengthening organizational culture
Attendees of the Certificate in Sustainable and Green Finance training course will be empowered to:
- Develop impactful sustainable finance solutions.
- Balance environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors with organizational and societal needs.
- Make strategic decisions that promote sustainability and create value for both the business and society.
- Enhance the quality of sustainable finance reporting.
- Model and assess decisions related to sustainable finance.
- Recognize the importance of sustainable finance solutions.
- Strengthen sustainable decision-making frameworks.
- Build a portfolio of green financial solutions.
- Develop a personal action plan for integrating green and sustainable finance principles into their professional work.
This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals, but it will particularly benefit:
- Financial reporting team members
- Banking professionals
- Strategy team members
- Risk management professionals
- Finance managers
- Budget managers
- Commercial managers
- Capital investment and project team members
Module 1: Sustainable Finance
Day One: 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 Two: 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 Three: 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 Four: 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 Five: 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
Module 2: Green Finance
Day Six: Sustainable Finance and Green Finance
- Climate change and our changing world
- Building a sustainable financial system
- Greening finance, financing green, and transition finance
- Responsible retail, commercial, and corporate banking products and services
- Measuring and reporting impacts, alignment, and flows of green and sustainable finance
- Risk management
Day Seven: Green Loans Financing Sustainability
- What makes a loan a green loan
- Types of green loans
- Green loan principles
- How does a green loan report its impact
- The connection between green loans and green bonds
- Green project for a green loan
Day Eight: Green and Sustainable Bonds
- Debt capital markets, and the development of the green and sustainable bond market
- Green, social, sustainability-linked, and other forms of sustainable bonds (e.g. blue bonds, transition bonds)
- Green bond principles, social bond principles, sustainability-linked bond principles
- Green bond listings, indices, and funds
- Securitisation
- Green project for green bonds
Day Nine: Responsible and Sustainable Investment
- Foundations of investment and the role of equity markets in the financial system
- Sustainable investment, ESG and similar terms – definitions and comparisons
- Principles for responsible investment
- Sustainable investment strategies and themes
- Growth of sustainable investment, factors driving this (risk, regulation, returns) and challenges to further growth (especially greenwashing)
- Sustainable investment products, including funds (mutual, index, ETF, etc), indices, private equity, venture capital, angel investing
Day Ten: Insurance – Impact Underwriting
- The insurance sector and the physical impacts of climate change
- Sustainable finance product issuance trends
- Principles for sustainable insurance
- Impact underwriting: personal insurance, including green home insurance and green motor insurance
- Impact underwriting: commercial and corporate insurance, including commercial property, renewable energy
- Climate risk insurance, including sovereign catastrophe risk pooling and index insurance
