Fundamentals of Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG)
Accreditation Number: 29190 – Fundamentals of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Practices
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This program provides the participants with a crucial understanding, perspective, and ability to work with ESG issues to inform financial decision-making. This program intends to help the participants develop the critical thinking skills required to work with ESG issues in various ways and scenarios. In this program, we will discuss the introduction to ESG, and then take a deep dive into systems thinking and the importance of context in ESG.
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By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
· Explain key ESG concepts and the considerations for companies & investors.
· Leverage systems thinking to assess materiality across companies and industries.
· Determine risks & opportunities for both internal and external stakeholders.
· Evaluate ESG maturity, the quality of disclosures, and actual performance.
· Learn to build an ESG scorecard using an example company and set of client directives.
- ESG and its Importance
- ESG Factors & Challenges
- Underlying Concepts of ESG
- Systems Thinking and Context
- Traditional vs Systems Thinking
- Visualizing Systems Thinking
- Assessing ESG Performance with Systems Thinking
- Systems Thinking and materiality
- Breaking Down Materiality
- The Material Risk and Opportunities
- ESG Issues by Industry
- Materiality vs Immateriality
- Corporate Responses to Social Events
- Evaluating ESG and ESG Maturity
- Evaluating Disclosure Quality
- Evaluating ESG Performance
- Creating an ESG Scorecard
- ESG Scorecard Breakdown
