The British Academy for Training and Development offers a Green Finance training course. Green means economic growth that minimises pollution and greenhouse gas emissions at every turn. It is centered on preventing waste and maximising the efficiency of using natural resources. It requires sustained investment and persistent financing. In the end, green growth is a pillar of sustainable development and will add quality to businesses, countries, and the world.

In this regard, Green Finance training will provide the basic principles, tools, and insights for the effective management of environmental and social risks. You will learn how to understand opportunities that present high returns on investment and environmental reward, making it a tool for greater accountability.

This training course will also bring attendees' improved understanding of the evolution of green and sustainable products and services in the banking, investments, and insurance sectors, and will help promote awareness of the finance sector in making the transition to a low-carbon world.

Objective:

By the end of the Green Finance training course, attendees will be able to:

• Discuss the underlying factors that drive climate change science and how finance can assist the transition to sustainable low-carbon economies.

• Discuss the role of various financial products and services (banking, investment, and insurance) in supporting the sustainable development agenda.

• Select appropriate green products for financing sustainable.

• Learn the requirements for developing projects for green finance.

• Learn what financial technology can do to boost green and sustainable finance.

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideal for:

• Finance Managers

• Banking Professionals

• Strategy Team Members

• Risk Management Professionals

• Commercial Managers

• Capital Investment and Project Team Members

How will attendees benefit?

At the end of the course attendees will gain many benefits:

• Deep Understanding of Green Finance Principles: Managers will discover the essentials of green finance here, including climate risk assessment, sustainable investing, green bonds, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) components.

• Decision-Making Practical Tools: Attendees in the course get frameworks and tools for including green finance ideas into business planning, budgeting, and investment decisions.

• Risk Management and Compliance: Attendees will help their organisations avoid legal and reputational dangers by knowing regulatory requirements and how to connect with worldwide standards like the EU Taxonomy, TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures), and others.

• Improved Stakeholder Confidence: By clearly communicating sustainability objectives to clients, investors, and others, managers will be increasing openness and confidence.

• Strategic Benefit: Through mastery of green finance, executives place their company ahead of the curve in seizing green funding possibilities, grants, and sustainable partnerships.

• Improved Leadership Abilities: The course helps leaders by allowing managers to support environmental initiatives within their teams and drive significant environmental effect.

Sustainable Finance and Green Finance

• Climate change and our changing world

• Building a sustainable financial system

• Greening finance, financing green, and transition finance

• Responsible retail, commercial, and corporate banking products and services

• Measuring and reporting impacts, alignment, and flows of green and sustainable finance

• Risk management

Green Loans Financing Sustainability

• What makes a loan a green loan

• Types of green loans

• Green loan principles

• How does a green loan report its impact

• The connection between green loans and green bonds

• Green project for a green loan

Green and Sustainable Bonds

• Debt capital markets, and the development of the green and sustainable bond market

• Green, social, sustainability-linked, and other forms of sustainable bonds (e.g. blue bonds, transition bonds)

• Green bond principles, social bond principles, sustainability-linked bond principles

• Green bond listings, indices, and funds

• Securitisation

• Green project for green bonds

Responsible and Sustainable Investment

• Foundations of investment and the role of equity markets in the financial system

• Sustainable investment, ESG and similar terms – definitions and comparisons

• Principles for responsible investment

• Sustainable investment strategies and themes

• Growth of sustainable investment, factors driving this (risk, regulation, returns) and challenges to further growth (especially greenwashing)

• Sustainable investment products, including funds (mutual, index, ETF, etc), indices, private equity, venture capital, angel investing

Insurance – Impact Underwriting

• The insurance sector and the physical impacts of climate change

• Sustainable finance product issuance trends

• Principles for sustainable insurance

• Impact underwriting: personal insurance, including green home insurance and green motor insurance

• Impact underwriting: commercial and corporate insurance, including commercial property, renewable energy

• Climate risk insurance, including sovereign catastrophe risk pooling and index insurance