Sustainability essentials

This foundational micro course is aimed at financial professionals with limited experience in sustainability principles and concepts. It focuses on understanding sustainability; and how sustainability principles can be applied in a work practice? Learners will be primed to commence deeper dives into further sustainability topics.

At the end of this micro course, learners will be primed to commence deeper dives into further sustainability topics.

Topic areas

• What is sustainability?
• The universe of sustainability issues, SDGs
• Connecting with First Nations knowledge
• How is sustainability good for business?
• The role of finance professionals
• Who are your stakeholders?
• Identifying and analysing stakeholders
• Assess your ESG (environmental, social and governance) exposure
• Mapping and rating ESG risks
• Identify opportunities to improve
• Integrate ESG into practice

Benefits of completing this course:

• Stay up to date in an ever-changing environment – alleviate fears of obsolescence or being left behind
• Identify new terms and concepts within the sustainability landscape
• Increase your value within the workplace by building ESG into your organisations strategy
• Build future-focused capability in the sustainability space.

By completing this micro course, you’ll be able to:

• Define environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues
• Evaluate why sustainability is important to business and stakeholders
• Analyse sustainability risks and opportunities in an organisation
• Research and plan to integrate or improve ESG-related issues within an organisation.

Sustainability Essentials consists of one 2hr self-paced digital learning course.

The above self-paced timings are an estimate. The courses provide the flexibility to access the online content at any time and study at your own pace. The time it takes you to complete the digital learning component will depend on your level of prior knowledge, competency level and pace of study.

The courses do not have a mandatory assessment component. However, you are encouraged to attempt online quizzes to challenge yourself and validate your understanding of the course topics.