This module is part of the Climate and Nature Certificate Program.

In this module, you will:

  • Explore how to respond to growing stakeholder activism by aligning corporate strategies with sustainability demands and utilizing shareholder proposals and proxy voting for corporate change.

  • Understand how to leverage ESG ratings to strengthen investor confidence and shape corporate behaviour by signalling strong risk management and environmental strategy.

  • Learn how to build stakeholder trust through transparent, third-party-verified sustainability reporting, ensuring realistic, verifiable environmental goals.

  • Uncover how to avoid greenwashing by setting incremental sustainability goals, fostering accountability, and benchmarking environmental performance.

  • Discover how to simplify complex climate and nature issues for the board, fostering strategic discussions that lead to actionable decisions.

  • Understand how to include Scope 3 emissions in sustainability strategies, improve data collection, set reduction targets, and lead your company in the low-carbon transition.

  • Gain a Competent Boards Micro-Credential!

Course content includes:

    1. Strategic Topics

    2. Leader Insights: Andrew Steer (President and CEO, the Bezos Earth Fund)

    3. Leader Insights: Matt Arnold (Global Head of Impact Finance and Markets, The Nature Conservancy)

    4. Leader Insights: Sarah Chapman (PhD Chief Marketing Officer, Manulife Investment Management and Global Chief Sustainability Officer, Manulife)

    5. Leader Insights: David Blood (Co-founder and Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management)

    1. Knowledge Check

    2. Course Completion Survey

    3. Key Takeaways

About this course

  • $450.00
  • 4.8 hours of course content
  • Access for 1 month