Green growth involves driving economic growth while simultaneously reducing pollution and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. It emphasizes minimizing waste and improving the efficiency of natural resource use. Achieving green growth requires sustained investment and long-term financial support. Ultimately, it promotes sustainable development and elevates the quality of life for businesses, nations, and the global community.
The Green Finance training course will equip you with the crucial principles, tools, and strategies to effectively manage environmental and social risks. You will gain the ability to identify opportunities that offer substantial returns on investment and environmental benefits, while also fostering greater accountability.
This training course, offered by the Energy Training Centre, will help participants deepen their understanding of the development of green and sustainable products and services within the banking, investment, and insurance sectors. It will also enhance participants' awareness of the financial sector’s critical role in supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Upon completion of the Green Finance training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the key drivers behind climate change science and how the financial sector can support the shift to a sustainable, low-carbon economy.
- Describe how various financial products and services (banking, investment, and insurance) contribute to sustainable development.
- Select the right green products or services to fund sustainable projects.
- Understand the requirements for preparing projects eligible for green finance.
- Discuss how financial technology can further the goals of green and sustainable finance.
The Green Finance training course will utilize a mix of proven learning strategies to ensure a comprehensive understanding, retention, and application of concepts. The training course will be delivered in an interactive workshop format, emphasizing the development of practical skills that participants can apply to real-world business scenarios once they return to their respective organizations.
Attendees of this training course will return to their organizations with the following benefits:
- Achieving long-term sustainable growth
- Successfully completing more environmentally-conscious projects
- Implementing finance solutions that balance business and social needs
- Driving innovation and improving project quality
- Leveraging green assets to guide the business towards net-zero emissions
- Identifying and seizing opportunities for investing in green initiatives
By attending the Green Finance training course, individuals will be better prepared to:
- Create sustainable finance strategies
- Make well-informed decisions focused on sustainability
- Evaluate and model sustainable finance choices
- Understand the significance of sustainable finance solutions
- Build a portfolio of green financial solutions
- Formulate a personal action plan to incorporate sustainable finance principles into their professional work
This Green Finance training course is ideal for professionals across various fields, especially:
- Finance Managers
- Banking Professionals
- Strategy Team Members
- Risk Management Professionals
- Commercial Managers
- Capital Investment and Project Team Members
Day One: 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 Two: 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 Three: 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 Four: 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 Five: 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