New Deforestation and Nature Training for Investors Now Available

31 July 2024
Understand the Risks, Discover the Opportunities. Access is included in AIGCC Membership.

AIGCC’s new online training modules will help investors at all levels build their expertise in managing this important area. The training will be particularly useful for investment analysts and portfolio managers.

Duration: 30 – 45 minutes for each module

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The Syllabus

  1. Introduction to deforestation
    • Forest and Climate change
    • What are deforestation and conversion?
    • Drivers and trends of deforestation
    • Impacts of deforestation
    • Global Framework and Policy on deforestation
  1. Deforestation risks and opportunities
    • Nature and deforestation
    • Deforestation physical and transition risk
    • Opportunities in the deforestation-free supply chain
  1. Integration of deforestation risk and opportunities into investment strategies
    • Understanding exposure
    • Setting policy
    • Monitoring
    • Engagement
    • Disclosure
  1. Investors’ case studies
    • 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

Industry-leading Knowledge and User Experience

The training draws on AIGCC’s extensive research and member engagement, and WWF Singapore’s long-time expertise. We’ve developed an all-new experience, drawing on the skills of training design experts GoImpact.

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AIGCC members already have an account with the address we have on file.

Access is free for all AIGCC members. To enquire about membership, please contact Emi Fong emi.fong@aigcc.net

Any problems, please email Firdaus Anuar: firdaus.anuar@aigcc.net

What Skills Will You Be Able to Put into Practice?

  • Understand the relationship between deforestation, nature and climate change issues, and the current global framework and policy on deforestation
  • Understand the deforestation risks, and opportunities for investors in a deforestation-free supply chain ecosystem
  • Understand the basic steps to integrate deforestation risk and opportunities into investors’ investment strategies
  • Learn and adopt from other investors their best practices to integrate deforestation risks and opportunities to the investment strategies