Green Finance

Our green finance course trainer is a former investment banker and a green/sustainable finance expert. Most recently, he led the Centre for Sustainable Finance at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), which helps financial institutions play a leading role in building a more sustainable economy. He led work across the finance industry, including with banks, insurers and investors, producing cutting-edge research, tools and frameworks that drive change in how institutions work with the wider economy, ensuring they manage risks and grasp new business opportunities.

He also sat on the Advisory Panel for GFANZ (The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero), providing expertise, critique and support to the finance industry in developing robust and credible net zero transition plans.

Our green finance online course trainer plays a senior leadership role at CISL, sitting on the executive committee to set strategy, oversee financial performance and ensure effective delivery across the wider organisation. Prior to joining CISL, he spent 20 years in investment banking at Credit Suisse and Dresdner Kleinwort, advising global financial institutions on balance sheet structure, capital raising and post-crisis regulations.

Our green finance training course will cover the following objectives:

• To gain an understanding of the key concepts related to environmental issues.
• To identify the systemic impact of climate risks on the financial system and how that relates to asset management and portfolio construction.
• To understand key environmental risks and how they impact business models.
• To apply material environmental factors to financial modelling; ratio analysis; risk assessment; and quality of management.
• To identify sectors and companies that can benefit from opportunities relating to a transition to a low-carbon economy.
• Have an overview of climate change and the main ways it impacts individuals (and corporates) and their finances.
• To gain an understanding of the role financial institutions can play in the transition to a low-carbon society via their products.
• Become familiar with the various approaches to align green finance and investment portfolios with a low-carbon economy, as well as the methodologies underpinning these approaches.
• Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses, as well as biases, of these approaches.
• Become able to hold a basic level discussion about the possible contributions of different products and asset classes to a low carbon economy.

• In-depth understanding of the expectations and practical implications of seeking to become a financial institution that is sustainable and green.
• Focus on actual green finance products.
• Awareness of the latest climate-related regulatory trends.
• Insight into practical aspects of the implementation of the theory.
• A thorough review of related academic research and its implications surrounding green finance.
• Perspective based on international experience in green finance strategy.
• Practical insights on ESG policy at the level of the portfolio and the financial institution.

Addressing the E in ESG has become critical, as environmental risks, especially climate change, are already having a significant impact on financial decision-making and the economy as a whole.

With investors increasingly pressured to demonstrate that they are steering their capital to a low-carbon economy, how can one make sense of the different types of low-carbon funds, key characteristics, portfolio construction biases and client perception? Our Green Finance webinar introduces sustainable investment– an investment approach intentionally seeking to create both financial return and a positive impact on climate stability. 

While climate is the best-addressed environmental factor so far by governments, businesses and financial institutions, the range of environmental factors that have a material financial impact on investments and loans is broad and far-reaching.

This green finance course identifies and describes the key environmental factors and external drivers that finance professionals should consider when assessing ESG risks and opportunities.