Beginner's Guide: Net Zero and the Sustainability Landscape

Beginner's Guide: Net Zero and the Sustainability Landscape, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.05, with 24 lectures, based on 60 reviews, and has 281 subscribers.

You will learn about What are the goals of the Paris Agreement, and how do they relate to Climate Change What does Net-Zero mean, and what the Transition to a Net Zero Economy means What is Sustainability, why it matters for Businesses and How it is changing the Economy Understand how Climate Risks become Financial Risks and their impact for Businesses and Banks/Investors Learn about the EU's latest Sustainability Regulations and best practices for avoiding Greenwashing Understand what it means for corporations to deliver on their Pledges to Reduce Emissions/Decarbonize Businesses Understand the key Trends, Metrics, and Frameworks that are required under ESG and Sustainability reporting Learn why implementing ESG criteria into Decision Making leads to better business outcomes Learn about Carbon Pricing, what are the Carbon Markets and their Trends This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone interested in understanding Sustainability/ESG and making sense of the Net Zero Transition topic or Junior employees, recent hires or recent graduates that intend to develop a career in Sustainability in any company or University Students in Economics that want to learn about the impact of ESG and Sustainability in Businesses or Job Seekers preparing for job interviews in the Sustainability field or Anyone about to engage in Sustainability measurement/Reporting or Those who need to make sense of it all, from the Paris Agreement to Sustainability Reports It is particularly useful for Anyone interested in understanding Sustainability/ESG and making sense of the Net Zero Transition topic or Junior employees, recent hires or recent graduates that intend to develop a career in Sustainability in any company or University Students in Economics that want to learn about the impact of ESG and Sustainability in Businesses or Job Seekers preparing for job interviews in the Sustainability field or Anyone about to engage in Sustainability measurement/Reporting or Those who need to make sense of it all, from the Paris Agreement to Sustainability Reports.

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Summary

Title: Beginner's Guide: Net Zero and the Sustainability Landscape

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.05

Number of Lectures: 24

Number of Published Lectures: 23

Number of Curriculum Items: 24

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 23

Original Price: €19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

What are the goals of the Paris Agreement, and how do they relate to Climate Change
What does Net-Zero mean, and what the Transition to a Net Zero Economy means
What is Sustainability, why it matters for Businesses and How it is changing the Economy
Understand how Climate Risks become Financial Risks and their impact for Businesses and Banks/Investors
Learn about the EU's latest Sustainability Regulations and best practices for avoiding Greenwashing
Understand what it means for corporations to deliver on their Pledges to Reduce Emissions/Decarbonize Businesses
Understand the key Trends, Metrics, and Frameworks that are required under ESG and Sustainability reporting
Learn why implementing ESG criteria into Decision Making leads to better business outcomes
Learn about Carbon Pricing, what are the Carbon Markets and their Trends

Who Should Attend

Anyone interested in understanding Sustainability/ESG and making sense of the Net Zero Transition topic
Junior employees, recent hires or recent graduates that intend to develop a career in Sustainability in any company
University Students in Economics that want to learn about the impact of ESG and Sustainability in Businesses
Job Seekers preparing for job interviews in the Sustainability field
Anyone about to engage in Sustainability measurement/Reporting
Those who need to make sense of it all, from the Paris Agreement to Sustainability Reports

Target Audiences

Anyone interested in understanding Sustainability/ESG and making sense of the Net Zero Transition topic
Junior employees, recent hires or recent graduates that intend to develop a career in Sustainability in any company
University Students in Economics that want to learn about the impact of ESG and Sustainability in Businesses
Job Seekers preparing for job interviews in the Sustainability field
Anyone about to engage in Sustainability measurement/Reporting
Those who need to make sense of it all, from the Paris Agreement to Sustainability Reports

The topics discussed in the course are ones that appear in the press and social media every day, engaging more and more discussion and attention. This course explains the basic concepts and terminology behind Sustainability, ESG, Climate Risks and the developments in reporting/Disclosures.

The course is ideal for anyone who wishes to understand the concepts around Climate Change and Sustainability, be aware of what they mean and why they are important. It is a short course, that includes simple explanations and a few practical examples. The aim of the course is not to form experts in each of the topics, but to give anyone a fair understanding of them, so that they may engage in a conversation about the issue with someone, or better understand daily press and regulatory news, with a fair basis of knowledge.

The course explains what are Climate Risks, and why the concerns about their impact are leading companies and the Financial Sector to change their strategy and priorities. It explains why ESG is seen as a Risk Mangement Tool that helps companies be self critical of their impact in the society and planet but also creates resilience towards new evolutionary risks. In the course, I make the link between all these topics, leading to the understanding of why there is a new set of regulatory impositions towards analysing, measuring and disclosing ESG related risks.

These topics are very actual and evolve by the day, and sooner or later will become part of any business, company or financial institution, with implications in all levels of the organsations and in all job roles. I aim at bringing an introduction easy to understand that can help anyone at any level of an organization to embrace the changes that come with new sustainable strategies and the new goals and tasks that come ahead. All jobs will be at a certain point in time affected in some way by the Sustainability problematic, so I believe it is time for anyone to have the basic knowledge around these issues. The course brings value added to anyone who wishes to understand what this all means, flavored by someone who is hands on on real life implications, from decades of experience in managing and advising businesses.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction: New Evolutionary Risks require New Business Approaches

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Global Warming, Paris Agreement, Net-Zero Transition Pledges

Lecture 3: Why Corporate and Social Responsibility (CSR) Evolves into ESG

Chapter 2: Evolutionary Risks and ESG as a Strategy

Lecture 1: New concerns about Emissions Reduction and Social Impact

Lecture 2: ESG: a New Holistic Strategy for Businesses

Chapter 3: Climate Risks as Financial Risks and their Impact in the Economy

Lecture 1: Climate Risks: Physical Risks and Transition Risks

Lecture 2: The Impact of Climate Risks on Businesses

Lecture 3: Scope 1, 2 and 3 Emissions and the Emissions Gap

Lecture 4: The Carbon Markets and Carbon Pricing

Lecture 5: Accounting and Reporting Emissions: The Green House Gas Protocol

Chapter 4: Emerging and Developing: Sustainability/ESG Disclosures and Standards

Lecture 1: Sustainability/ESG Disclosures at par with Financial Statements

Lecture 2: Triple Bottom Line/Double Materiality Concepts

Lecture 3: Standards, Frameworks, Certifications: GRI, SASB/IFRS, SBTi, B Corp, TCFD

Lecture 4: ESG Ratings – What For are They

Chapter 5: Regulatory Requirements and Reporting Landscape in the EU

Lecture 1: The role of the ECB

Lecture 2: EU Taxonomy

Lecture 3: The EU SFDR – Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation

Lecture 4: The EU CSRD – Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and Climate Scenarios

Lecture 5: Combating Greenwashing and Avoiding Litigation

Chapter 6: Summary, Expected Developments, Job Opportunities

Lecture 1: Sustainable Finance: Opportunities Grow in the Financial Sector

Lecture 2: New Jobs and Roles in the Sustainability Industry/Size of Market

Lecture 3: Expected Developments and Focus Areas Going Forward

Lecture 4: Final Remarks

Instructors

Ana Lucas
Corporate Banker, Banking Instructor, Advisor to SMEs

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2 stars: 2 votes
3 stars: 10 votes
4 stars: 16 votes
5 stars: 31 votes

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