Green Finance training course for Managers

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