Explore how sustainability reporting dives progress toward global sustainability goals and transforms decision-making in capital markets.
Over the past decade, regulators, investors, and other stakeholders have increasingly demanded more information about firms’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. This shift has fuelled the exponential growth of sustainable investing in global capital markets and led to mandatory ESG disclosures by publicly listed firms.
In this course, you will examine the benefits of ESG reporting while tackling its challenges, such as mitigating risks like greenwashing. You will examine existing and emerging ESG regulations, frameworks for performance metrics, and their implications for market participants. Using academic research, industry reports, regulatory filings, case studies, and media insights, you will uncover how capital providers – such as pension funds, private equity firms, and banks – as well as suppliers and customers, incorporate ESG data into their strategies to drive meaningful change.
By the end of the course, you will have a comprehensive understanding of the foundations of corporate ESG activities, the evolution and current development of worldwide ESG regulation and reporting requirements, the pros and cons of ESG disclosure, and the adoption of ESG information by different market participants.
