Online Climate and Nature Training for Investors

These online courses are designed for investment professionals, including ESG specialists, portfolio managers and their broader team.

The courses consist of short self-paced modules, and can be taken anytime and anywhere.

They are currently available to AIGCC members only. Find out more about joining AIGCC.

New: Deforestation and Nature Risks and Opportunities

  • Understand the crucial interactions between climate and nature, and the key role the forests play in both.
  • Respond to rapidly developing policy, regulatory and market demands relating to nature-loss and deforestation risks.
  • Act to address growing deforestation-related risks, including setting and meeting their own climate and nature goals.

Learners are strongly encouraged to take the modules in order. After the knowledge check at the end of each module you have the option to register and receive a certificate of completion.

Module 1: Setting The Scene

Contents
  • Forest and Climate change
  • What are deforestation and conversion?
  • Drivers and trends of deforestation
  • Impacts of deforestation
  • Global Framework and Policy on deforestation

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Module 2: Identifying Impacts and Dependencies

Contents
  • Nature and deforestation
  • Deforestation physical and transition risk
  • Opportunities in the deforestation-free supply chain

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Module 3: Integration of deforestation risk and opportunities into investment strategies

Contents
  • Understanding exposure
  • Setting policy
  • Monitoring
  • Engagement
  • Disclosure

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Module 4: Case Studies

Contents
  • Schroders’ work on reducing commodity-driven deforestation
  • Resona Asset Management’s work on managing the nature risks of palm oil
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management’s engagement strategy on nature risks

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More training…

TCFD Applied Scenario Analysis

Learning Objectives
  • Understand climate-related scenario analysis as part of investment strategy,
  • Know the various methodologies for scenario analysis,
  • Best practice application of scenario analysis and analysis of their outputs.

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(Available to AIGCC Members Only)

Corporate Engagement & Active Stewardship

Learning Objectives:
  • Deepen knowledge of active ownership, different types and examples of engagement on climate risk,
  • Better understand the climate engagement in different Asian markets and the types of engagement themes investors could focus on,
  • Learn about the corporate engagement tools and resources available for investors.

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(Available to AIGCC Members Only)

Downloadable Brochures

TCFD Applied Scenario Analysis
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Corporate Engagement & Active Stewardship on Climate
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Professional Learning

The CFA Institute allows its members the ability to self-determine and self-report continuing education credits earned from external sources. CFA Institute members are encouraged to self-document such credits in their online Professional Learning tracker.

Contact

Please contact Firdaus Anuar (firdaus.anuar@aigcc.net) for more information and support regarding the training program.