Content

The financial sector is assigned a key role in the EU in the financing of targeted climate and environmental goals. In this context, investments in climate protection are to be favored and the financing of climate-damaging activities is to be avoided in order to support the European transformation to a sustainable economy.

However, the actual conclusion of sustainable finance instruments should not be at the beginning but at the end of ESG considerations and requires some preparatory work and know-how(-building).

In this seminar, we explain the essential sustainability regulation including the possible obligations in sustainability reporting, discuss considerations behind ESG KPIs and show design options for (sustainable) financing instruments.

Main topics

Group of participants

Employees and managers working in the financial sector as well as employees who (should) deal with sustainability issues and (want to) take a closer look at the topic of sustainability and its points of contact with the financial sector as well as corporate customer advisors from banks who would like to get to know the day-to-day business of their customers from their perspective.

Targets

You will learn to classify the most important terms in connection with sustainable finance and ESG financing and know the interplay of essential legal acts on the topic of sustainability & sustainable finance as well as the resulting obligations. Furthermore, you will understand possible process flows for the design of Sustainable Finance instruments and know relevant implementation options.