ESG: Challenges, Strategy, Risks and Reporting

$
1800.00
2 days | 16 academic hours

Training objectives
Training program Day 1
Training program Day 2

Training objectives

  • Uncover opportunities for using ESG approaches to enhance the effectiveness of strategic planning
  • Identify stakeholder preferences to define a sustainable development strategy and analyze their impact on the company’s reputation
  • Learn to recognize sustainable development risks and select solutions for their proactive mitigation
  • Develop recommendations for the company’s sustainable development strategy

Training program Day 1

Challenges of Sustainable Development
  • Historical background and global trends in sustainable development
  • Principles, global initiatives, and concepts of sustainable development
  • UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), their connection with ESG, and integration into business operations
  • Benefits of implementing ESG
  • Practice: identifying relevant SDGs (based on objectives) for companies
ESG Transformation Process of a Company
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Developing an ESG strategy and setting ESG goals
Governance Factor Components
  • Components of the Governance factor: sustainable development governance structure
  • Practice: identifying stakeholders, their interests, and methods of engagement
Environmental Factor Components
  • Integration of environmental and climate change issues into corporate strategies
  • New environmental code and its impact
  • Climate agenda: Carbon regulation, calculation of Scopes 1, 2, and approaches to emissions reduction strategies
  • Greenwashing
Social Factor Components
  • Human resource management, social responsibility, and philanthropy

Training program Day 2

ESG Risk Management Assessment
  • Types of risks
  • Responsibility for managing ESG risks
  • Approaches to building a sustainable development risk management system
Practice: identifying ESG risks
Public Non-Financial Reporting
  • Types of non-financial reports
  • Structure and reporting requirements
  • Identification of material topics
  • ESG disclosure standards
Practice: identifying material topics for non-financial reporting
Independent Assessment of ESG Performance
  • ESG ratings and key assessment methodologies
Sustainable Finance
  • Principles of responsible investing and responsible banking
  • New types of sustainable investment instruments
  • The sustainable finance market globally and in Kazakhstan
  • Examples of leaders in sustainable agendas