Introduction to Climate Risk Management

This course is an introduction to the risks that climate change poses to the financial sector, and will evaluate different ways to manage the associated risks. This course is relevant to a broad range of business, finance, and banking professionals at all stages of their career journeys, as well as entrepreneurs, management consultants, and senior executives at organizations of all sizes that are faced with changing stakeholder expectations. Learners who have completed this course are able to explain the basic concepts of climate change; identify, compare, and contrast different types of climate risks; describe how climate change creates financial risks specifically; interpret key recommendations from the TCFD framework; analyze an example partner code of conduct; and recommend key steps towards designing and implementing a climate risk management strategy.