Sustainable Finance
Course Provider: Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Summary: Gives you a holistic business understanding of how best to mitigate the business risks of climate change and oversee a low carbon transition.
Gain the knowledge and skills to combat climate change in your context, and learn to build a business model that is resilient and profitable in the low carbon, resource-efficient economy of the 21st century. By decarbonising your business, you’ll enhance the resilience of your organisation, and unlock new opportunities for growth and innovation both now and into the future.
More info: https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/education/learn-online/business-and-climate-change-towards-net-zero-emissions-online-short-course
Location: Remote
Length: 8 weeks, 8-10 hours per week
Cost: £2,200
Course Provider: Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Summary: The University of Cambridge Sustainable Finance online short course offers insight into the role of finance in creating a more sustainable and resilient global economy.
Over eight weeks, you’ll learn about the pressures and trends affecting the current financial system and investigate the strategic business implications of these social and environmental challenges. You’ll also discover how sustainable finance can open up exciting new opportunities and strategically drive long-term business returns.
More info: https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/education/learn-online/sustainable-finance-online
Location: Remote
Length: 8 weeks, 8-10 hours per week
Cost: £2,200
Course Provider: WEA Guernsey / Kay Davidson
Summary: Our impact around the world is significant when we stop and consider the source and origins of all we interact with in our daily lives. From our food choices, the clothes we wear, to the items we use in our homes, our consumption and lifestyle habits need to change to protect and care for this fragile planet.
If you have a strong desire to become more sustainable but are unsure what else you can do, this feel-good course will give you multiple ways to take action. Focusing each week on small practical changes you can adopt, will lead to a reduction in your plastic, chemicals and carbon footprint. We hear a lot about sustainability in the wider context of governments, businesses and manufacturing but what does it mean at the individual, household, level?
We look at developing more sustainable habits in our every day lives here in Guernsey and learn how small changes, when combined, do make a difference. An interactive course finding various ways to achieve desired actions. Feedback and sharing knowledge are important aspects of the course.
More info: https://www.wea.org.gg/product-page/sustainability-for-you
Location: Remote
Length: 5 weeks, 2hrs per week
Cost: £35
Course Provider: MSQ / BIMA / Future Learn
Summary: Help tackle climate change with this guide to carbon footprint measurement, offsetting, and reduction strategies for your company
More info: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/how-to-measure-reduce-and-offset-your-companys-carbon-footprint
Location: Remote
Length: 6 weeks, 3hrs per week
Cost: £55
Course Provider: UK Chartered Institute of Banking
Summary: Updated for 2021-22, Principles and Practice of Green and Sustainable Finance includes the latest assessment of climate science from the IPCC, published in August 2021, which shows that human activities are having unprecedented and irreversible effects on the global climate.
Global surface temperatures are likely to rise under all scenarios by more than 1.5o above pre-industrial levels by 2040 and by more than 2oC later in the century without dramatic and sustainable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. This underpins the urgency and importance of aligning finance with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, and sustainability in general.
In order to tackle this collective challenge, every finance professional needs to develop a knowledge and understanding of green and sustainable finance.
This global, benchmark qualification will help individuals to develop their understanding of, and apply, green and sustainable finance principles and practice in their roles and within the organisation they work for.
More info: https://www.charteredbanker.com/qualification/certificate-in-green-and-sustainable-finance.html
Location: Remote
Length: 12 weeks, to up to a year
Cost: £565
Course Provider: London Business School
Summary: The programme is designed for mid to senior level managers; tasked with or seeking to develop or implement sustainable business practices within their organisation, or aiming to update their management capabilities with new frameworks and perspectives.
More info: Sustainability Leadership & Corporate Responsibility –Online | London Business School
Location: Remote
Length: 6 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
Cost: £1,850
Course Provider: CFA
Summary: The CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing offers you both practical application and technical knowledge in the fast-growing field of ESG investing — an opportunity to both accelerate progress and demonstrate purpose.
The certificate and learning materials were developed by leading practitioners for practitioners, and have been recognised by the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), an independent body that seeks to encourage investors to use responsible investment to enhance returns and better manage business risks.
More info: Schoolhttps://www.cfainstitute.org/en/programs/esg-investing
Location: Remote
Length: 100-130 hours of self study
Cost: $675
Course Provider: CISI
Summary: If you are looking for a course that covers what the main definitions are, an understanding of ESG and its integration, greenwashing, what the global developments are and how this might all apply for consumers then this Professional Assessment provides an excellent overview.
Designed by a global team of experts, this course is relevant for wealth and investment managers advising clients but also those working across other financial services functions, including risk, compliance, asset management, banking, insurance, operations and financial planning. Completion of the course will give you a certificate that you can use to demonstrate your competence in this area.
Location: Remote
Length: 6 hours
Cost: £125
Course Provider: GTA - Guernsey Training Agency
Summary: Guernsey is aiming to be one of the pioneering jurisdictions for Green Finance and this course aims to provide an introduction and overview of Green Finance, including Guernsey’s initiatives in this area.
More info: https://gta.gg/course/finance/introduction-to-green-and-sustainable-finance/16923/22-09-2022
Location: Guernsey
Length: Half day
Cost: £195
Course Provider: UN CC:e-Learn
Summary: Covers the basics of Sustainable Finance while providing several opportunities to dive deeper. The course covers sustainable finance instruments, methodologies and frameworks for integrating sustainability into financial decisions, key global sustainable finance initiatives, and sustainable finance regulations.
It is designed for interested participants from governments, academia, the financial sector, businesses, and civil society.
More info: https://unccelearn.org/course/view.php?id=139&page=overview
Location: Remote
Length: 10 hours self study
Cost: Free
Course Provider: UN CC:e-Learn
Summary: The One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC:Learn) is a joint initiative of more than 30 multilateral organisations helping countries to achieve climate change action both through general climate literacy and applied skills development.
UN CC:Learn provides strategic advice and quality learning resources to help people, governments and businesses to understand, adapt, and build resilience to climate change. UN CC:Learn is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
More info: https://unccelearn.org/course/
Location: Remote
Length: Self study
Cost: Free
Course Provider: University of Oxford & Said Business School
Summary: Learn how to integrate ESG management into business practice.
Location: Remote
Length: 7 weeks
Cost: £1,900
Course Provider: PRI Academy
Summary: Why RI is important for trustees and boards, how to develop a RI strategy and understand relationship between ESG analysis and investment decision making
More info: https://priacademy.org/products/ri-for-trustees
Location: Remote
Length: Half Day
Cost: £210
Course Provider: PRI Academy
Summary: The course trains investment professionals to identify and analyse material environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and to incorporate these factors into their investment decisions and ownership activities.
More info: https://priacademy.org/products/applied-ri
Location: Remote
Length: 2 Days
Cost: £700
Course Provider: School of International Finance
Summary: Various short courses, usually delivered by a local expert.
More info: https://www.sifs.co.uk/w/uk/
Location: Remote
Length: Various
Cost: Various
Course Provider: ESG Competent Board
Summary: Commit to achieving the highest standard of environment, social and governance (ESG) education. Hear from dozens of renowned global leaders how to contribute more fully to ESG-related conversations in the boardroom.
Learn to minimise risk, create value, enhance resiliency and establish good governance that will take you and your company to higher levels of trust and performance.
More info: https://competentboards.com/
Location: Remote
Length: 6 months, Zoom every 2 weeks
Cost: £3,000
