COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) Risk Management. It covers the ESG concepts, ESG risk management and global ESG reporting and frameworks; the stakeholders in ESG, materiality assessment and double materiality and impact versus financial materiality; the ESG performance and value creation and ESG metrics and financial performance indicators, risk-adjusted returns and investor ESG preferences; and the regulatory environment and compliance, climate risk and resilience and carbon and GHG management. 

 

Further, the course will also discuss the natural resource and biodiversity risks, pollution, waste, and environmental incidents and environmental risk assessment tools; the ESG integration in environmental management systems, human rights and labor practices and health, safety and well-being; the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), community and social license to operate and supply chain social risks; and the social performance, corporate governance structures and ethics and integrity and anti-corruption. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the risk management and internal controls, data governance and cybersecurity; the executive compensation, ESG metrics and audit and assurance of ESG information; the ESG risk management framework, scenario planning and stress testing including materiality and ESG risk prioritization; the ESG metrics, KPIs, and performance management; and the sustainability reporting, communication and ESG strategy execution and culture.