Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Training

DAY 1 Session

Introduction & Background to ESG

• Introduction to ESG – what is Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)?

• Highlighting the history of ESG

• Understanding the key drivers of ESG

  • Regulation

  • Clients

  • Investors

  • Banks

  • Companies

  • Sustainability

• Managing ESG implementation

• Measurement roadmap

• Understanding how investment and operating contexts are changing in response to environmental and societal imperatives

ESG Global Perspective and Insights

• Perceptive insights and thought leadership on worldwide ESG trends

• Analysing key trends that will drive ESG agenda beyond 2022

• Looking at what is driving climate and sustainable finance globally

• Futuristic predictions

Understanding ESG Investing

• The landscape of ESG investing

• Clarifying the link between ESG and Investing

• Discussion of E, S & G Opportunities and Risks

• ESG performance and current thinking

• Socially Responsible Investment

• Selecting sustainable investment indexes

• Impact from evolving ESG regulation – the future of ESG investing

• Understanding how investment and operating contexts are changing in response to environmental and societal imperatives

• Triple and Quadruple Bottom line

• 3Ps-Planet, People and Profit

• 4Ps-Planet, People, Profit and Purpose

DAY 2 Session

Ensuring Credible ESG Reporting for Stakeholders

• Understanding ESG Reporting

• An overview of the ESG Reporting frameworks

• Integrated reporting

• Key indicators

• Guiding principles for ESG Reporting

• Realising the key stakeholders in ESG Reporting

• What does an ESG Report look like?

• What does it mean for organisations to measure and report ESG information?

• What are the current (and proposed) requirements related to ESG Reporting in key jurisdictions?

• What does the future look like for ESG Reporting?

ESG in the Boardroom

• What is sustainability and how has it evolved?

• The role of the board and the audit committee in the board’s management of sustainability and ESG issues

• What are the drivers of sustainability and who are the stakeholders?

• Board’s oversight of the dynamic ESG landscape

• How does ESG affect corporate strategy and risk oversight and what are the critical responsibilities of the boards of directors?

• Legislation, mandatory and voluntary reporting requirements, and litigation and risk management.

• Operations management – supply chain, employees, and customers

• Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the boardroom and beyond

DAY 3 Session

Critical Concepts in ESG Disclosures

• What are ESG Disclosures

• Are ESG disclosures mandatory?

• Knowing the importance of ESG Disclosures

• Unpacking disclosure categories

  •           Applying the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) guidelines

• Understanding the difference between Qualitative and Quantitative Disclosures

• Best practices in writing and interpreting Disclosures

Corporate Pressures & Stakeholder Expectations

• Living up to stakeholder expectations and business opportunities

  • Realising the effect of stakeholder pressure and corporate governance on the quality of sustainability report
  • Establishing how ESG stakeholder activism is transforming corporate governance
  • Where do you begin to close the stakeholder expectation gap?

Day 4 Session

Laws and Regulation of ESG Compliance

• What is ESG regulation?

• Key ESG frameworks:

  • Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

  • The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)

  • CDP

  • Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

• ESG Compliance requirements

• Understating the growing ESG regulations and compliance requirements

• What role can the government play in fast tracking ESG?

• Highlighting the importance of monitoring ESG regulations

• Navigating the global ESG regulatory landscape

• Complying with ESG regulations – What companies need to do

• ESG Compliance and Third-Party Risk Management

ESG Risk Assessment Fundamentals

• • Identify and assess the enterprise-wide risks associated with climate change
  • Identify and assess the financial risks associated with climate change
  • Do scenario analysis
  • Develop mitigation strategies
  • The Green Swan – an introduction to climate change science
  • Explain business resilience considerations, and action plans to accommodate climate change
  • Unpacking ESG Risk assessment fundamentals

• Identifying the Principles of ESG

• Assessing and managing ESG Risk

• Integrating ESG in Credit Assessment

Day 5 ESG Framework Compliance Components

• Climate change and the economy

• Understanding the nature and context of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors

• Identify ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ and the factors that are believed to cause these trends

• Recognise the potential economic impacts of climate change

• Explain the pursuit of net zero organisations and economics

• Climate governance

• Understand the principle of Inclusive Capitalism

• Discuss effective and ethical leadership

• Explain tools used for engaging the board and executive team in accounting for sustainability

• Analyse the impact of climate change on strategic initiatives

• Understand the legal and regulatory influences, including the Draft Bill on climate change

• Explain business resilience, consideration, and action plans to accommodate climate change

• Climate reporting and disclosures

• Understand how companies supplement their traditional financial statements with non-financial analysis disclosures that highlight ESG issues

• Identify the potential benefits of strong sustainability reporting practices, and the potential pitfalls of ‘greenwashing’

• Explain disclosure practices that are consistent with leading sustainability reporting frameworks

• Climate change and people perspectice

• The People Perspective brings together the workforce considerations that impact all ESG strategies, from Diversity & Inclusion to greening your employment contracts.