Program Overview
This program equips finance, sustainability, and strategy professionals to make informed, future-ready financial decisions that accelerate industrial decarbonization and ESG integration. Participants will learn to evaluate green investments, structure sustainability-linked financial instruments, and apply frameworks like TCFD, EU Taxonomy, and ICMA Green Bond Principles. Through simulations and case-based discussions on ESG risk integration, green bonds, and carbon pricing, the session enables leaders to bridge financial rigor with environmental responsibility — ensuring capital flows toward sustainable, high-impact transformation.
Features
- Integrate ESG and sustainability factors into capital allocation and investment frameworks
- Evaluate and structure green and sustainability-linked financial instruments
- Quantify and manage climate and transition risks in investment portfolios
- Build organization-level sustainable finance roadmaps aligning business growth with ESG goals
Target audiences
- Finance and Irsk Management Team Leads
- Strategy Heads
- Sustainability & ESG Team Leads
Curriculum
- 6 Sections
- 33 Lessons
- 1 Day
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- The Finance Imperative in the Sustainability Transition5
- 1.1Defining Sustainable Finance — ESG, green finance, transition finance, impact finance
- 1.2Global frameworks: TCFD, ISSB, SFDR, EU Taxonomy, RBI’s sustainable finance roadmap
- 1.3Cost of carbon and value of avoided emissions
- 1.4The “Finance–Sustainability Nexus” — how capital steers industrial transformation
- 1.5Exercise: Quick diagnostic — participants assess their company’s current sustainability–finance alignment score
- ESG Integration & Risk-Based Financial Decisions7
- 2.1ESG materiality mapping — sectoral relevance (energy, manufacturing, transport)
- 2.2Financial modeling with ESG variables (carbon cost, compliance risk, green premium)
- 2.3Green vs. brown asset exposure — balancing transition portfolios
- 2.4Scenario analysis & stress testing for climate risk
- 2.5Measuring double materiality: financial and impact-based
- 2.6Case Study: How Siemens, Unilever, and Mahindra integrate ESG scores in investment and supplier financing decisions.
- 2.7Exercise: Participants quantify risk-adjusted ROI for two investment options — green retrofit vs. conventional expansion
- Green Bonds, Transition Finance & Investment Instruments7
- 3.1Types of sustainable instruments: Green Bonds, Blue Bonds, Sustainability-Linked Loans, Transition Bonds
- 3.2Principles & guidelines: ICMA Green Bond Principles, LMA Sustainability Loan Principles
- 3.3Structuring ESG-linked KPIs, covenants, and disclosure requirements
- 3.4Blended finance models (public + private) and carbon credit monetization
- 3.5Tax incentives and regulatory enablers in India (RBI, SEBI, SIDBI)
- 3.6Example: Tata Motors’ Green Bond issuance, Adani Green’s transition financing, IFC blended finance case
- 3.7Group activity – Structure a sustainability-linked financing model for an industrial decarbonization project
- Accounting for Sustainability — Measuring Value Beyond ROI7
- 4.1Sustainable value creation framework (economic + environmental + social capital)
- 4.2Internal carbon pricing and shadow carbon cost accounting
- 4.3Total Impact Measurement & Management (TIMM)
- 4.4Sustainability-linked KPIs integrated with P&L and balance sheet
- 4.5Corporate disclosures — BRSR Core, GRI, and Integrated Reporting
- 4.6Case Study: Hindalco and Schneider Electric — translating carbon savings into business value
- 4.7Exercise: Create a sustainability-adjusted P&L statement using real-world data
- Exercise — Sustainable Investment Decision-Making4
- Building a Sustainable Finance Roadmap3
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