ESG Basics Programme

Adoption of ESG regulation brings new opportunities for companies to show their sustainability efforts and corporate responsibility to a wider audience. This opportunity also comes with a challenge of creating a new sort of report. Although it’s still early days for most companies’ strategic reinvention, we know the ESG reporting brings a mini revolution to the reporting process. New kind of reporting will be comprehensive and bring different departments in the reporting process. Additionally, the reporting process should be based on a clear company strategy that can asses the business processes and policies and set up the supporting KPI`s.

How to use the new regulations to create an encompassing business strategy?

Understanding the ESG landscape, recognizing risks and opportunities that lie ahead will help you to maximise those opportunities and minimise the risks.

Using best practices examples we will show what benefits ESG implementation may bring to your business:

  • Staying ahead of the competition
  • Bottom line resilient to adverse risks
  • Compliance and easier adaptation to new regulations
  • Innovative business environment
  • Employee retention and engagement

Key benefits for participants: 

  • Understanding ESG regulation and its strategic aspects, impacts and complexities
  • Understanding how the new non-financial reporting requirements will affect your annual reporting process
  • Understanding how to limit risks (financial, regulatory and reputational risks) during the green transition
  • Seeing best practices for organizing the reporting process
ESG Crash Course

Who is it for?

For those who want to understand how their business can thrive in the ESG era and utilise the upcoming legal requirements and leverage it for resilience of their business in the future:

  • Senior management to gain the understanding of the impact on business
  • Management to understand the various aspects they should keep in mind when adopting the regulation
  • ESG team members to get a bigger picture on how different parts of the regulation are adopted
  • Finance to understand different parts of the reporting process
  • Marketing and investor communication how to present the ESG data in a transparent and meaningful way
  • HR teams to understand their part in ESG reporting process

Reporting II - EU Taxonomy

Some of the topics covered in this module:

  • The context of EU Taxonomy
  • Who is required to publish EU Taxonomy, in what form is it required to publish
  • What is the difference between eligibility and alignment
  • What is substantial contribution criteria
  • What is a Do no significant harm criteria
  • What are the minimum safeguards

How will you and your organisation benefit from this module:

  • Clear outline how to determine and calculate eligibility and alignment
  • Provide guidance on implementation
  • Identify key gaps and urgent points of action
  • Provide good practice on evidence gathering

Dates and logistics

Modules
 
Module 1: Strategy, Governance and Social 7 June 2023
Module 2: Environment - Decarbonisation and climate change 13 June 2023
Module 3: Environemt and social due dilligence 20 June 2023
Module 4: Reporting I - CSRD and GRI 27 June 2023
Module 5: Reporting II - EU Taxonomy 4 July 2023

Training times: 9am-1pm CET / 10am-14pm EST

Delivery method: Live online training, organised in four 4-hour sessions
*Contact us for in-house training opportunities. 

Delivery language: English (and/or Croatian)

Certificate of attendance: It will be issued to all participants upon completion of the course.

Price

Standard price:
1. Full program: 650 euro + VAT*
2. 1 module: 250 euro + VAT*

Early bird price for registrations by 24 May:
1. Full program: 500 euro + VAT*
2. 1 module: 200 euro + VAT*

* PwC alumni: 15% discount
  Mini MBA alumni: 15% discount


Lecturers

Ana is a Manager in Deals Advisory, driving development of ESG-related services and participating in ESG projects which include different line of services. She has 15 years of experience in financial services industry with extensive experience in company valuations, macroeconomic, credit, equity and ESG analysis. She started her career in another Big4 accounting firm performing audit services of financial institutions.

Her prior experience also includes the implementation of Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation and the EU Taxonomy regulation requirements on entity and product level for financial market participants and financial advisers. She has worked on various projects covering a sustainability-related regulation development (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, EU Taxonomy regulation for financial undertakings, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive) has practical experience in the integration of sustainability risk into investment-decision making process, including building ESG scoring model for measuring sustainability risks, disclosure requirements, ESG analysis of investee companies. Ana is knowledgeable in various ESG investment strategies (exclusion, ESG integration, best-in-class), ESG rating methodologies, ESG materiality assessment. 

Ana holds a bachelor's degree in economics and business and is an ACCA student. She also has a Certificate in ESG Investing by CFA Institute.

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