An Interactive 10-Day Training Course

Certificate in Sustainable and Green Finance

Harnessing Financial Strategies for a Sustainable Future

30 Mar - 10 Apr 2026
Dubai
| $11900
28 Sep - 09 Oct 2026
Dubai
| $11900

Introduction

Simply acknowledging global sustainability challenges like climate change, resource depletion, and inequality is no longer sufficient for businesses. Investors, stakeholders, and the broader public now expect organizations to take concrete action and manage their impact on these critical issues. The Certificate in Sustainable and Green Finance training course is specifically designed to provide professionals with the key principles, tools, and insights necessary to integrate sustainability into financial strategies. By participating in this training course, individuals will be equipped to guide their organizations in adopting a finance approach that addresses these global challenges while also generating long-term value for the organization, its stakeholders, and society as a whole.

Through this training course, participants will explore current financial practices, trends, and emerging opportunities in the realm of sustainable finance. The training course delves into how major environmental and social challenges are shaping business strategies and impacting financial systems. Delegates will gain the knowledge and skills to foster innovative approaches for developing more sustainable business models, while also increasing their understanding of the critical role the finance sector plays in advancing the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable world. This training course empowers participants to drive change within their organizations and contribute to the global effort toward a more sustainable future.

This GLOMACS Certificate in Sustainable and Green Finance training course will highlight:

Key Learning Outcomes

By the end of this Certificate in Sustainable and Green Finance training course, participants will be able to:

Training Methodology

This Certificate in Sustainable and Green Finance training course will be conducted in an engaging and dynamic format, incorporating various learning methods. Each of the two modules will feature formal presentations on key tools and techniques, alongside ample opportunities for group discussions on real-world examples and collaborative case study work.

Certificate in Sustainable and Green Finance

Who Should Attend?

 

The impact on the organisation of delegates attending this Certificate in Sustainable and Green Finance training course includes:

  • Achieving sustainable growth
  • Successfully completing more sustainable projects
  • Making more informed and effective financial decisions
  • Developing finance solutions that balance both organizational and social needs
  • Fostering innovation and improving project quality
  • Leveraging eligible green assets to transition the business toward net zero
  • Gaining opportunities to invest in green projects
  • Cultivating a forward-thinking workforce aligned with emerging trends and legal requirements
  • Aligning reporting with evolving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards
  • Enhancing strategic outlook and strengthening organizational culture

 

Learning Journey Breakdown

Module I: Sustainable Finance

  • Principles and foundation of sustainable finance
  • Environmental issues and concerns
  • Social issues and concerns
  • Governance issues and concerns
  • Ethical issues and concerns
  • Defining organisational scope for sustainable finance
  • Concepts of stakeholder value
  • The purpose of competitive companies
  • Principles and practice in corporate governance
  • Redefining competitive business strategy
  • Understanding business models and their disruption
  • Identifying key success factors
  • Using strategy maps to identify key performance indicators
  • The traditional financial analysis toolkit
  • Conventional measures of stakeholder value
  • Selecting the right key performance measures
  • Designing internal reports on sustainable finance
  • Principles of Integrated Reporting (IR)
  • The challenges of sustainable investment
  • Scenarios for business model reinvention
  • Key decision factors for sustainable financial investment
  • Traditional tools of investment appraisal
  • Factoring in the environmental and social dimension
  • Limitations of conventional investment appraisal methods 
  • Traditional approaches to understanding business risk
  • Risk aspects from a sustainable finance perspective
  • Sustainable finance developments in banking
  • Sustainable finance developments in financial investments
  • Financial modelling of risk under sustainable finance conditions
  • The way forward in sustainable finance

Module II: Green Finance

  • Climate change and our changing world
  • Building a sustainable financial system
  • Greening finance, financing green, and transition finance
  • Responsible retail, commercial, and corporate banking products and services
  • Measuring and reporting impacts, alignment, and flows of green and sustainable finance
  • Risk management
  • What makes a loan a green loan
  • Types of green loans
  • Green loan principles
  • How does a green loan report its impact
  • The connection between green loans and green bonds
  • Green project for a green loan
  • Debt capital markets, and the development of the green and sustainable bond market
  • Green, social, sustainability-linked, and other forms of sustainable bonds (e.g. blue bonds, transition bonds)
  • Green bond principles, social bond principles, sustainability-linked bond principles
  • Green bond listings, indices, and funds
  • Securitisation
  • Green project for green bonds
  • Foundations of investment and the role of equity markets in the financial system
  • Sustainable investment, ESG and similar terms – definitions and comparisons
  • Principles for responsible investment
  • Sustainable investment strategies and themes
  • Growth of sustainable investment, factors driving this (risk, regulation, returns) and challenges to further growth (especially greenwashing)
  • Sustainable investment products, including funds (mutual, index, ETF, etc), indices, private equity, venture capital, angel investing
  • The insurance sector and the physical impacts of climate change
  • Sustainable finance product issuance trends
  • Principles for sustainable insurance
  • Impact underwriting: personal insurance, including green home insurance and green motor insurance
  • Impact underwriting: commercial and corporate insurance, including commercial property, renewable energy
  • Climate risk insurance, including sovereign catastrophe risk pooling and index insurance

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