ESG Fundamentals

Whether you’re in investment banking, commercial banking, private industry, or investment management, you will no doubt be faced with growing interest in ESG. It is crucial to have an understanding of, perspective around, and ability to work with ESG issues to inform financial decision-making. The intention of this course is to help you develop the critical thinking skills required to work with ESG issues in a variety of ways and in a variety of scenarios. In this course, we will refresh ourselves on the key concepts from CFI’s Introduction to ESG course, then take a deep dive into systems thinking and the importance of context in ESG. We will work through the mechanics of a materiality assessment and discuss the material risks and opportunities to both internal & external stakeholders. Finally, we will evaluate the quality of corporate ESG action in a variety of ways and work through an exercise in building our own ESG scorecard using a set of example client directives.