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Certified ESG Specialist
Rating: 4.2 out of 5(119 ratings)
263 students

Certified ESG Specialist

Develop your fundamentals in becoming an ESG Specialist
Created byThe Business Academy
Last updated 5/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • Explain what ESG is and its relevance to making financial decisions
  • Describe key environmental, social, and governance issues
  • Explain how stakeholders influence corporate ESG performance
  • Analyze ESG risks and opportunities

Course content

1 section • 14 lectures • 57m total length

  • Introduction and Learning Objectives1:42

    Explore environmental, social, and governance factors and their relevance to financial decisions. Learn how stakeholders influence ESG performance and assess ESG risks and opportunities with publicly available information.

  • What is ESG?7:25

    Environmental, social and governance form a framework to assess how a company manages risks and opportunities amid changing systems, aiming for long-term value.

  • Importance of ESG4:26

    Explore how ESG drives long-term company success by reducing risk, seizing opportunities, and strengthening reputation, culture, and human capital management.

  • Environmental Factors5:37

    Explore how environmental factors shape ESG risk management and capital allocation, focusing on climate change and its physical, transition, and human risks, plus issues like pollution and water scarcity.

  • Social Factors5:07

    Analyze social factors driving ESG risk and disclosure, including human capital management, labor shortages, product safety, human rights, community welfare, and how engagement and supply chains affect reputation and profitability.

  • Governance Factors6:21

    Explore governance within ESG, including board diversity, accountability, and reporting frameworks such as SASB, TCFD, and GRI, and integrate ESG into risk management and long-term planning.

  • Materiality1:46

    Explore how companies perform materiality analyses to identify ESG issues most impactful to business and stakeholders, assess disclosures, understand risks, and measure ESG maturity.

  • ESG Risks and Opportunities2:04

    Discover how converging ESG issues create real-time risks and opportunities across supply chains and interdependent industries, with governance shaping response and unlocking new markets like plant-based proteins.

  • Corporate Pressures and Stakeholders Expectations5:18

    Assess how corporate pressures and stakeholder expectations shape risk identification and success via stakeholder management. See investors, customers, employees, and supply chain partners influence ESG disclosure and crisis response.

  • Modern Demands on Corporate Supply Chains1:30

    Learn how supply chain management drives risk, as McKinsey links 80 to 90% of negative impacts to supply chains and scope 3 emissions, while supplier ESG maturity shapes procurement decisions.

  • Key Considerations3:17

    Assess the completeness and transparency of a company's ESG reporting—public disclosures, Carbon Disclosure Project, and integration into the annual 10-K report—and its impact on valuations, capital decisions, and stakeholder trust.

  • ESG and Competitive Advantage5:29

    Discover how ESG creates a competitive advantage by reducing risks, seizing growth opportunities, and boosting resilience, productivity, and stakeholder trust across value chains.

  • ESG Trends and Initiatives6:27

    Explore emerging ESG trends across industries, including climate strategy, enhanced disclosure, social governance, and stakeholder capitalism; learn how long-term ownership, transparency, and KPIs shape fund performance and corporate resilience.

  • Course Summary1:25

    Explore the essentials of environmental, social, and governance fundamentals, learn to assess material issues through a framework, engage holders, and balance ESG risks and opportunities for competitive advantage.

Requirements

  • No prerequsites.

Description



Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) has garnered increasing attention in recent years, prompting many institutional investors to exclusively support companies that furnish ESG performance reports. ESG encompasses factors that are pertinent to analysts, investors, consumers, and employees, making it a prominent topic of discussion in boardrooms. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the ESG framework and its role in bolstering a company's overall risk management. It delves into each constituent aspect, offering insights into how they collectively influence a company and its stakeholders. The course also explores the examination of corporate pressures and stakeholder expectations, elucidating their impact on risk identification and business success. Lastly, critical considerations from both the company and investor perspectives are explored.


By completing this course, participants will gain the ability to:


  • Explain what ESG is and its relevance to making financial decisions;

  • Describe key environmental, social, and governance issues;

  • Explain how stakeholders influence corporate ESG performance;

  • Analyze ESG risks and opportunities;

  • Assess ESG company performance using publicly available information;

  • Translate ESG information to business intelligence.

This ESG course is ideal for analysts seeking a deeper understanding of how companies navigate risks and seize opportunities arising from dynamic market and non-market conditions in the contemporary business environment.

Who this course is for:

  • This ESG course is ideal for analysts seeking a deeper understanding of how companies navigate risks and seize opportunities arising from dynamic market and non-market conditions in the contemporary business environment.

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