Course description
The green and sustainable finance course is a global benchmark qualification for individuals to deeply understand, develop, and apply their knowledge of green and sustainable finance principles and techniques within the organizations they work for in their respective roles. It is estimated that the rise will get worse later in the century if there won’t any sustainable carbon and greenhouse emissions reduction. With this in mind, there is an urgency and great importance in ensuring that all the existing financial objectives of any organization and concerned parties align with the Paris Agreement and better sustainability in general.
To take up this general responsibility, any finance professional needs to develop the skills and knowledge of green and sustainable finance. This Rcademy course puts all these like-minded professionals ahead by ensuring the green and sustainable finance course includes the most recent environmental science assessment from IPCC, which was published late in the year 2021. The publication shows that recent human activities are making a negative impact with irreversible consequences on the global climate.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who should attend?
The Certificate in Green and Sustainable Finance Course by Rcademy is ideal for all services professionals internationally who have an interest in gaining skills and knowledge of green and sustainable finance. It will also greatly benefit the following:
- Insurers
- Risk managers
- Investment managers
- Central bankers and the regulators
- Any other interested professional
Outcome / Qualification etc.
The main objectives of The Certificate in Green and Sustainable Finance Course by Rcademy are to enable the participants to:
- Explain in detail the role of various key players and the existing policies with their regulatory frameworks that align finance with the main objectives of the Paris Agreement and the UN SDGs
- Discover the importance of measuring, accurately monitoring, and effectively reporting impacts, negative outcomes, and finance flows
- Apply the learned skills to describe how various financial strategies, services, activities, and products can ensure a green and sustainable environment
- Understand the steps different regulators, organizations, governments, policymakers, and professionals are taking to support mainstreaming sustainable green finance
- Discover the nature and profits of climate and emerging sustainability risks and how they can be countered
Training Course Content
Module 1: Introduction to Green And Sustainable Finance
- Definitions and various methods of attaining green and sustainable finance
- Introduction to Paris Agreement
- Various shades of green – taxonomies – Activities
- Short-termism
- Products and services in a green and sustainable industry
- Regulatory developments
- Environmental and social sustainability factors
Module 2: Flows Monitoring And Reporting
- Collecting better data – Availability – Analysis – Quality
- Reporting emission – Approaches – Techniques – Standards – Methodologies
- External review
- UNFCCC Biennial Assessments
- Impacts and process monitoring
- OECD Research collaborations
Module 3: Climate Changes
- Climate change mitigations
- Green new deal – Circular economy – Building back better
- Intergovernmental panels on the global environment and climate change
- Greenhouse gases
- Climate change adaptations
- Greenhouse effect
- Carbon bubble
- Effects of climate change on Society and the Environment at large
- Stranded assets
Module 4: Risk Management
- WEF global risks report
- Key regulatory institutions – TFCR – TCFD – NGFS – Stress-testing
- Types of climate-related risks – Liabilities – Physical – Transition
- Identifying, managing, and disclosing climate-related risks
- Stranded assets risks
- Scenario analysis
- Standalone and cross-cutting risks
Module 5: Sustainable Financial System
- Aligning Companies Cultures with Sustainability
- Global, national, and EU policies response
- Primary actors – Paris Agreement – Kyoto protocol – Agreements in building sustainability – UNFCCC
- Finance industry alliance – NEP – GANZ – PRI – PSI – PRB
- Corporate strategies sustainability embedment
- Government and intergovernmental bodies’ Roles in implementing sustainability
- Light green and dark green strategies
- Doing away with greenwashing
Module 6: Development and Central Banks
- Development of bank products and services
- Positive money green central bank scorecard
- The roles and responsibilities of central and development banks
- Overview of MDBs and their associated climate actions – ADB – EBRD – World bank – EIB
- National development banks and green support
- Central banks – Financial Policies – Mandates – Regulation – Monetary policies
Module 7: Insurance
- Roles of insurance: both life and general insurers
- UN Principles for sustainability insurance
- Climate risk insurance
- Insurance forum
- Physical and insurance sector effects of climate change – Increasing the costs – Natural disasters – Impact underwriting
Module 8: Investments in Sustainability
- Portfolio decarbonization – Climate Action 100+ – Net-zero asset managers – Net-zero asset owner alliances – PDC
- UN principles for responsible investment
- Foundations of investment
- The main role of equity markets in the financial system
- Sustainability investment strategies and themes
Module 9: Bond (green and sustainable)
- Securitization
- Green, SDG-linked, blue bonds, green Sukuk, sustainability-linked, and social bonds
- Green bond listings
- Fundings
- Indices
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