Strategic Approaches to Sustainability
Programme Outline
Day 1
- History & evolution of ESG
- ESG drivers I: License to operate, long-term value to the firm
- ESG drivers II: Regulatory factors, physical risks and transition risks
- Exercise: Identifying ESG drivers in your organisation
- ESG risks and opportunities: E factors
- ESG risks and opportunities: S factors
- ESG risks and opportunities: G factors
Day 2
- Stewardship and engagement: objectives and obstacles
- Engagement I: Forms, styles, tools, and partners
- Engagement II: Strategies, best practices and regulations
- In-class Assignment 2: Building an engagement plan for an issue in your organisation
- Steward leadership I: Management and corporate level
- Steward leadership II: Board and investor level
- Steward leadership III: Value chain and societal level
Day 3
- Implications of Triple Bottom Line accounting
- Activating corporate citizenship and purpose
- Performing a materiality assessment
- In-class Assignment 1: Mapping issues to stakeholders in your organisation
- Identifying and leveraging core competencies
- Systematic value chain mapping
- Using Theory of Change to develop a sustainability strategy
Day 4
- Why and when Governance matters more
- Management structure and compensation: Best practices & pitfalls
- Audit and reporting activities: Best practices & pitfalls
- Exercise: Mapping governance structures in your organisation
- Recognising and avoiding greenwashing
- Strengthening data governance and building digital trust
- Team Project briefing and preliminary planning
Day 5
- Team Project: Developing a sustainability strategy for your organisation
Assessment
- Assignments
- In-class participation
- Team Project
Subject Credits
Upon completion and satisfying the requirements of passing this course, learners will be awarded 12 subject credits.