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Sustainable Finance, Green Bonds and Climate Risk for Financial Institutions

A commercial and risk-focused programme for banks, investors and issuers developing sustainable-finance strategies, green and sustainability-linked instruments, climate-risk capabilities and credible use-of-proceeds and impact reporting.

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Duration2 days
Learning levelAdvanced · 16 learning hours
CredentialCENGSSUD Advanced Certificate in Sustainable Finance
Corporate deliveryAvailable for in-house cohorts
Programme purpose

Learning designed for immediate organisational application.

A commercial and risk-focused programme for banks, investors and issuers developing sustainable-finance strategies, green and sustainability-linked instruments, climate-risk capabilities and credible use-of-proceeds and impact reporting.

Available dates

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16–17 November 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

Sustainable-finance instruments, taxonomies and transaction assessment

Module 1 — Sustainable-finance market and product landscape

  • Sustainable, green, social, transition and climate finance
  • Green, social and sustainability bonds and loans
  • Sustainability-linked instruments, blended finance and credibility risks

Practical application: Match financing needs to appropriate sustainable-finance instruments.

Module 2 — Principles, taxonomies and eligibility

  • Use-of-proceeds and sustainability-linked principles
  • Taxonomy objectives, technical criteria, exclusions and safeguards
  • Project categories, transition credibility and do-no-significant-harm considerations

Practical application: Assess sample projects against an eligibility framework.

Module 3 — Project evaluation and environmental and social due diligence

  • Business case, environmental benefit and additionality
  • E&S risk screening, categorisation and safeguards
  • Baseline, impact methodology, data quality and approval conditions

Practical application: Complete a sustainable-finance project appraisal.

Daily participant outputAn instrument-selection analysis, eligibility decision and project-appraisal file.

Day 2

Climate-risk integration, framework governance and impact reporting

Module 4 — Climate risk in credit and portfolio decisions

  • Physical and transition risk transmission to borrowers and assets
  • Sector, geography, tenor, collateral and counterparty assessment
  • Portfolio concentration, scenario analysis and risk appetite

Practical application: Assess climate implications for a sample credit portfolio.

Module 5 — Sustainable-finance framework and issuance governance

  • Framework components, governance and project-selection process
  • Management of proceeds, controls, conflicts and documentation
  • Second-party opinions, verification, certification and stakeholder roles

Practical application: Draft the core sections of a sustainable-finance framework.

Module 6 — Allocation, impact measurement and assurance

  • Allocation tracking, unallocated proceeds and portfolio approach
  • Output, outcome and impact indicators, assumptions and attribution
  • Investor reporting, external assurance and post-issuance governance

Practical application: Prepare an allocation-and-impact report for a mock issuance.

Daily participant outputA sustainable-finance framework, climate-risk assessment and allocation-and-impact report.

Who should attend

Designed for the people responsible for delivery.

  • Banking and investment executives
  • Credit, treasury, risk and product teams
  • Finance, sustainability and investor-relations professionals
  • Regulators, DFIs and capital-market practitioners
Learning outcomes

What participants will be able to do.

  • Design credible sustainable-finance products
  • Strengthen climate-risk integration
  • Build an issuance-ready governance framework
  • Improve impact reporting and investor confidence
Participant resources

Practical take-away tools.

  • Sustainable-finance product canvas
  • Eligibility and project-evaluation tool
  • Green bond framework outline
  • Impact reporting indicator library
Learning methodology

Technical instruction translated into practical action.

Financial-sector cases, product design, project screening, framework critique and issuance simulation.

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