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Benefits of enrolling
Enroll your board and management team to develop climate and sustainability literacy and competency across the organization.
Regulatory requirements
Get ready for impending regulation from the SEC requiring climate-related disclosures, while CSRD and others already require thorough reporting.
Skills gap
Having a strong climate strategy is important. But there is a lack of confidence in boards’ level of preparedness to handle climate issues. Develop key expertise and competencies for effective oversight.
Stakeholder demands
Address stakeholder demands and get ready for proxy season to disclose your further education.
Accreditation
Designed to NASBA standards, keep your skills up to date and earn an average of 13 hours CLE credits and 10 CPE credits.
Unrivalled expertise
Access an exclusive global curriculum developed with industry experts including Glass Lewis and the ESG & Impact Practice at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Enterprise risk management
Enhance enterprise risk management of climate and sustainability by learning techniques for effective governance and oversight.
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Learning Objectives
Risk Oversight
Recognize approaches to identification, oversight and management of climate risk, including metric selection and risk-based due diligence strategies.
Reporting Frameworks
Distinguish key voluntary reporting initiatives, how they relate to each other, and evolving climate disclosure regulations across the globe.
Emissions Reporting
Acknowledge the significance of emissions accounting and assurance in ensuring accurate corporate reporting, alongside best practices, challenges and disclosure standards.
Risk Transformation
Evaluate your organization’s purpose, strategy and core assets to transform transitional climate risks into value creation.
Advocacy
Illustrate to stakeholders the value, importance and benefits of climate-related investments to enhance long-term value creation.
Executive Compensation
Establish Executive incentives and compensation that can help spur positive climate impact.
Courses
The program is available as a self-paced e-learning experience and includes five required courses with video sessions featuring subject matter and industry experts, curated readings and interactive exercises.
Learn from renowned subject matter experts who deliver impactful insights on topics such as framing climate in the context of business operations, assurance in reporting and disclosures and structuring oversight of climate risk.
Course 1: The Climate and Sustainability Landscape
This course provides a high-level overview of why addressing the risks and opportunities associated with climate change helps business leaders ensure long-term organizational sustainability and growth. The course also reviews the latest scientific data on climate change and the associated impacts on organizations both today and into the future.
At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to:
- Examine key terminology and major causes of global warming to help you define climate change.
- Identify the wide range of impacts climate change has on organizations, markets, the economy and the environment.
- Recognize key organizations and coalitions driving corporate climate engagement.
- Explain the role of net-zero commitments in advancing corporate climate action.
Course 2: Climate Risk, Resilience and Opportunity
Course 3: Climate Reporting, Disclosure and Assurance
Course 4: Aligning Purpose, Strategy and Value Creation
Course 5: Climate Governance and Communications
Graduation
Share your Climate Leadership Certification upon graduation.
A digital badge of honor
Proudly display your certification badge, showcasing your commitment to climate and sustainability excellence on LinkedIn.
Prestigious certification
Upon successful completion, receive a Diligent Institute climate and sustainability certificate to elevate your professional profile.
Proxy statement language
Share your further education achievement in your next proxy statement or disclosure with sample language provided.
Continuing professional education accreditation details
The Diligent Institute Climate and Sustainability Certification is a unique e-learning program that teaches climate literacy for corporate directors to effectively govern significant enterprise wide climate and sustainability risks and have meaningful conversations with management.
CPE accreditation
CEU Institute is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website.
- Participants will learn climate and sustainability literacy to effectively govern significant enterprise wide sustainability risks and have meaningful conversations with management.
- CPE credit hour: 10.0
- Field of study: Management Services
- Prerequisites: None
- Program level: Intermediate
- Delivery method: QAS self-study
- Refund/cancellation policy: Provide written notice to Diligent at certifications@diligent.com. If notice of cancellation in accordance with this section is received before access to the Diligent Institute Certification is granted, program fees will be refunded to you. You can view our cancellation and refund policy here.
- Complaint resolution policy: Provide written details to Diligent at certifications@diligent.com.
- CLE Accreditation - Up to 18hrs of CLE, depending on state approval.