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Board Oversight of Sustainability, IFRS S1 & IFRS S2

An executive programme that equips directors and senior leaders to provide informed oversight of sustainability-related risks and opportunities, climate resilience, reporting controls and management accountability without becoming operational managers.

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Duration2 days
Learning levelBoard and executive · 16 learning hours
CredentialCENGSSUD Executive Certificate in Sustainability Oversight
Corporate deliveryAvailable for in-house cohorts
Programme purpose

Learning designed for immediate organisational application.

An executive programme that equips directors and senior leaders to provide informed oversight of sustainability-related risks and opportunities, climate resilience, reporting controls and management accountability without becoming operational managers.

Available dates

Choose the session that works for you.

5–6 October 2026Apply for this date ↗
Detailed two-day curriculum

Six modules, practical exercises and workplace-ready outputs.

The programme moves from core concepts to guided application. Every major module includes focused submodules and a practical exercise.

Day 1

Director duties, governance architecture and strategic oversight

Module 1 — Board accountability for sustainability-related information

  • Director responsibilities, fiduciary judgement and regulatory expectations
  • IFRS S1/S2 governance disclosures and oversight evidence
  • Greenwashing, litigation, reputation and personal accountability risks

Practical application: Board-case discussion on oversight failure and disclosure risk.

Module 2 — Effective Board and committee governance

  • Mandates, charters, delegation and management accountability
  • Board competence, information needs and annual agenda
  • Decision records, challenge, escalation and conflicts of interest

Practical application: Review and strengthen a sample sustainability committee mandate.

Module 3 — Material risks, opportunities and strategy challenge

  • Identifying matters that could affect organisational prospects
  • Risk appetite, ERM integration and strategic trade-offs
  • Capital allocation, business-model resilience and opportunity oversight

Practical application: Conduct a simulated Board challenge of management’s ESG strategy.

Daily participant outputA Board oversight mandate, annual agenda and strategic challenge checklist.

Day 2

Climate resilience, performance oversight and disclosure approval

Module 4 — Climate risk, scenarios and financial effects

  • Physical and transition risks across time horizons
  • Scenario assumptions, resilience analysis and decision-useful interpretation
  • Current and anticipated effects on cash flows, finance and cost of capital

Practical application: Review a climate scenario pack from a director’s perspective.

Module 5 — Metrics, targets, controls and management information

  • Selecting Board-level indicators and decision thresholds
  • Data provenance, estimates, control ownership and exceptions
  • Performance variance, remediation and management certification

Practical application: Design a concise Board ESG dashboard and challenge questions.

Module 6 — Disclosure approval and assurance readiness

  • Board review of materiality, judgements and connected information
  • Sign-off workflow, evidence pack and assurance interaction
  • Balanced disclosure, omissions, restatements and final approval

Practical application: Simulated Board review and approval of a sustainability disclosure pack.

Daily participant outputA Board dashboard, disclosure-approval checklist and annual oversight action plan.

Who should attend

Designed for the people responsible for delivery.

  • Board directors and committee members
  • Company secretaries
  • Executive Management
  • Chief sustainability, risk, finance and audit officers
Learning outcomes

What participants will be able to do.

  • Strengthen Board challenge and decision records
  • Clarify governance and management accountability
  • Improve sustainability information presented to directors
  • Support credible IFRS S1/S2 disclosure approval
Participant resources

Practical take-away tools.

  • Board sustainability briefing pack
  • Oversight question bank
  • Committee work-plan template
  • Disclosure approval checklist
Learning methodology

Technical instruction translated into practical action.

Executive briefings, scenario-based Board cases, information-pack critique, simulated challenge and facilitated action planning.

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