ESG - Introduction - ICAP - Risk Taining Institute

ESG - Introduction

"ESG - Introduction" Module is part of the “Certified Sustainability Officer (ESG)” training program.

Description

An introductory course on ESG. The course explains what is Environmental and Social Governance, and why it is vital for businesses to embrace this new perspective in order to achieve better performance. Traditionally, evaluation of businesses focused on financial performance only. But today, organisations and institutions face new and increasingly important environmental and social evolutionary risks that demand adjusting their activities and governance. Businesses must evolve to prepare for a triple bottom line evaluation, where not only financial, but also social and environmental performance matter

Target Audience

Staff out of ESG roles at any level
Entry level staff at any business function
Entry level staff in Compliance, Legal, Finance, Risk, Audit
Marketing Professionals
Operations’ Professionals
Board Members

Subject Areas

Introduction to Sustainable Development and ESG concept (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance)

Introduction, history and background
International and European Trends on ESG & Sustainability
Initiatives and International Standards
Sustainable Finance Regulation
ESG corporate impact

What you will learn

Understand ESG principals and its relevance to business
Understand the latest trends and be up-to-date on the rapidly-changing ESG world
Understand how an ESG strategy drives Economic and Financial Performance
Be able to discuss about Sustainability, Impact Investing, Greenwashing, Sustainable Finance, Taxonomy, etc.
Be equipped to support your business in building a better, more sustainable world
Engage in ESG reporting best practices

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Course Start Date
2 of October 2024

Cost of Attendance

€400

8 Hours
Live Online
Attendance Certificate
Subsidized by LAEK

Course Timetable

Scientific Associate

Dimitris N.
Koufopoulos, PhDDirector of University of London MBA Programmes,
Member of H.A.RI.MA.

Director of the Global Online MBA Programmes in University of London
Visiting Professor, School of Law, CCLS at Queen Mary University
Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck University of London

Dimitrios N. Koufopoulos is a Visiting Professor, School of Law, CCLS at Queen Mary University, Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck University of London and the Director of the Global Online MBA Programmes in University of London. He has held numerous academic positions at Brunel University (2002-2018) and Cardiff University (1991-2002) in UK.
Dimitrios began his career very early, in construction industry –simply put, a builder-as well as a guitar player and singer where he quickly realised that was not good enough. Then, he turned his attention to accounting, where he saw opportunities and potential employment successes.
He gained his university bachelor’s degree in Management from the Athens School of Economics and Business Sciences in Greece, in 1988. Two years later has embarked on postgraduate studies in UK. He earned his MBA at Cardiff Business School, and straight after was employed as a research assistant at Cardiff University, Cardiff business School. He started working on his PhD on Strategic Planning Systems alongside his academic and consulting career.
He has been a Full-Time academic member of staff at Cardiff Business School from 1991 to 2002 and then joined Brunel Business School until April 2018. He publishes extensively in academic journals and every year papers that co-authors are presented in major conferences all over the world.
He has been teaching online and developing online material since 2006; in the early beginning at Universitas 21, then Laureate-Liverpool in 2009, Laureate- Roehampton in 2012 and University of London-Queen Mary in 2016. He has an extensive experience in developing and testing online material and modules; like Learning and Leading in a Dynamic Era, Strategy and Innovation and Strategic Management. He is currently working on the second edition of his textbook “Essentials of Strategic Management” published by Sage in 2012.
His supervisory capabilities have been developed since 1992 and up to now has successfully supervised well above 400 hundred students at UG and PG level as well as over 10 PhD students at Brunel University and currently 3 DBA Students at University of Liverpool.
Back in 1994, alongside his academic career, he set up a boutique consulting firm providing intelligent reports on several business and management issues. In 1998, he set up the Gnosis Management Consultants (www.gnosisconsultants.com), specializing in executive training and niched strategic research. In 2007, he set up the Hellenic Observatory of Corporate Governance (www.hocg.eu), where research on five distinct, important economic sectors for Greece are contacted. Since 2016 is a partner in www.proteas.io a business model innovation consulting firm.