Executive Certificate in ESG & Sustainability in Finance

Key Benefits

• Appreciate the scope of ESG risk factors in finance and assimilate the economic and financial impact of sustainability transitioning over different timeframes.
• Identify the principal international ESG initiatives and global standards, including reporting and understand the key role of finance in delivering a sustainable future.
• Identify the principal ESG financial instruments including green and sustainability linked bonds and loans.
• Recognise the nature of localised environmental hazards and financial implications.
• Understand the risks and opportunities emanating from global warming and climate change.
• Appreciate the financial ramifications of high-level global climate change action.
• Recognise the key tenets of good governance and the consequences of poor policies and practice.
• Appreciate the inter-relationships amongst ESG factors and risk management implications and identify the principal social risk factors important in finance.
• Assimilate forward-looking themes in sustainability and their implications for real and financial economies.

Course Overview

Fast track your ESG and Sustainability in Finance knowledge

Providing the unique opportunity to enable executives and aspiring professionals build a comprehensive practical understanding of the principal economic, financial and regulatory implications of ESG and sustainability.

Exclusively online over 12 weeks, this distance learning course works around your other commitments and equips you with the knowledge and skills to successfully navigate the rapidly evolving ESG landscape, including climate change, social and governance risk factors.

18 CPD hours awarded by ZISHI, a recognised CISI Premier Training Partner.