The A to Z of ESG - Environmental & Social Governance
A Perspective for Businesses on How to Manage ESG - Why it matters to Financial Performance and to the Economy
Ratings 4.29 / 5.00
What You Will Learn!
- Understand how an ESG strategy drives Economic and Financial Performance
- Learn about the new evolutionary risks in the world and how ESG can help prepare for them
- Understand how to Manage all ESG aspects in an organisation, What to gain from it and the dangers of ignoring it
- Learn what are ESG goals, why businesses need them and how they are set up and measured
- Learn how Small Businesses are affected by ESG (and how Banks/Big Corporates are helping)
- Learn about the regulatory frameworks that help businesses manage and measure ESG targets
- Be able to discuss about Sustainability, Impact Investing, Greenwashing, Sustainable Finance, Taxonomy, etc.
- Understand why there is controversy about ESG and be able to identify the doubtful behavior around it
Description
This course explains what is Environmental and Social Governance, and why it is vital for businesses to embrace this new perspective in order to achieve better performance. Traditionally, evaluation of businesses focused on financial performance only. But today, organisations and institutions face new and increasingly important environmental and social evolutionary risks that demand adjusting their activities and governance. Businesses must evolve to prepare for a triple bottom line evaluation, where not only financial, but also social and environmental performance matter.
To do this, companies and institutions need to go through a process of self evaluation and identify how they can have a positive impact in people and the planet, and what are the social and environmental risks they are exposed to. This exercise will imply modernizing the companies' Governance, and must involve all stakeholders that relate to the company. There is guidance available to do this and the course helps navigating this process.
As Investors and Creditors are increasingly concerned with the environmental and social performance of companies, managing ESG risks and having a proper ESG strategy is becoming essential. While Big Corporations are capable of allocating resources (financial and otherwise) to this task, small businesses have bigger constraints in this area. The course provides guidance and inspiration for smaller businesses to navigate the task of managing ESG risks taking into account the small size of operations and limited resources, while preparing them to face the increased scrutiny from bigger clients, banks or investors.
Who Should Attend!
- Employees in any position that requires analysing clients' businesses and risks
- Anyone that deals with Sustainability and ESGs in any capacity within any company/institution
- Employees involved with KYC procedures, or due diligence on clients/suppliers activities
- Employees in Banks, Insurers, Asset managers, Rating Agencies responsible for any ESG related topic
- Anyone responsible for establishing/developing Sustainability accounting, processes and/or governance
- Students in Economics/Management or young hires looking for an understanding of the ESG topic
- Anyone looking to develop their businesses and attract business partners, financing or investment
Tags
- Sustainable Development
- ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance)
Subscribers
5141
Lectures
20
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