Sustainability and Climate Compliance Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Sustainability Managers, ESG Reporting Specialists and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-ESR-011

Before you join: Participants should have basic familiarity with their organisation’s sustainability, environmental, risk, finance or reporting responsibilities.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Climate obligations now reach far beyond an annual sustainability report. Organisations must identify applicable disclosure and energy rules, quantify greenhouse-gas emissions, assess physical and transition risks, support public claims, and retain evidence that withstands internal review, assurance and regulator scrutiny. Weak boundary decisions, uncontrolled spreadsheets or unsupported net-zero statements can produce misstated disclosures, procurement failures, investor questions and greenwashing exposure. The practical challenge is to turn varied climate requirements into owned controls, reliable data and decision-ready reporting.

This course examines the governance, data and reporting disciplines required for climate and sustainability compliance. Participants interpret climate-related obligations, establish organisational and operational reporting boundaries, calculate Scope 1, 2 and material Scope 3 emissions, and apply materiality assessment methods. They examine climate risk assessment, scenario analysis, decarbonisation targets, transition planning, sustainability data controls and assurance evidence. The course also addresses IFRS S1, IFRS S2, ESRS climate disclosures, environmental claims controls and the connection between sustainability reporting, financial reporting and enterprise risk management.

Teaching combines focused instructor briefings with cases based on corporate reporting, energy use, supply-chain emissions, investor disclosures and public environmental claims. Participants analyse reporting decisions, test evidence trails, assess disclosure gaps and develop actions suited to their own organisation. They leave with a climate compliance action plan, an emissions inventory structure, a sustainability reporting control checklist and a framework for prioritising reporting, risk and decarbonisation work. The course is suited to professionals who already work with sustainability, risk, reporting, energy, legal, finance, procurement or internal controls.

What you will be able to do

  • Interpret climate, energy and sustainability reporting obligations using a legal compliance register
  • Build a double materiality assessment with documented stakeholder and evidence inputs
  • Calculate Scope 1, Scope 2 and screened Scope 3 greenhouse-gas emissions
  • Design sustainability data controls, evidence files and reporting approval workflows
  • Assess physical and transition climate risks using scenario analysis and risk registers
  • Prepare IFRS S1, IFRS S2 and ESRS-aligned climate disclosure inputs
  • Create decarbonisation targets and transition-plan milestones supported by energy data
  • Review environmental claims using substantiation, qualification and approval criteria

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Prepare credible climate reporting inputs with documented assumptions and evidence
  • Identify emissions data gaps before they affect published disclosures
  • Contribute informed challenge during assurance, audit and board-review processes
  • Assess greenwashing exposure in public climate and environmental statements
  • Build a practical climate compliance roadmap for immediate workplace use

For your organisation

  • Improved reliability of emissions, energy and sustainability reporting data
  • Clearer ownership of climate obligations, deadlines and supporting evidence
  • Reduced exposure to unsupported environmental claims and disclosure errors
  • More consistent climate risk information for boards, investors and lenders
  • Better prioritisation of decarbonisation, reporting and assurance expenditure

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can explain climate drivers and assign corporate accountability for climate and sustainability compliance.

  • Climate science drivers: greenhouse gases, warming pathways and physical hazard mechanisms
  • Paris Agreement temperature goals, nationally determined contributions and policy transmission
  • Identify transition risks from carbon pricing, standards and customer requirements
  • Distinguish acute, chronic and systemic climate impacts on business continuity
  • Climate justice, just transition and workforce implications for corporate decisions
  • Board, management and operational accountability for climate and sustainability compliance

Participants can establish a structured register of applicable climate, energy and reporting obligations.

  • Build a jurisdictional legal register covering climate, energy and disclosure obligations
  • Map mandatory reporting triggers by entity, listing status and value-chain position
  • Compare voluntary commitments with binding laws, permits and contractual clauses
  • Compliance obligation owners, evidence requirements, deadlines and escalation routes
  • Assess green claims against consumer protection and advertising rules
  • Track regulatory change through horizon scanning and controlled policy updates

Participants can conduct a documented materiality assessment and define defensible reporting boundaries.

  • Double materiality assessment using impact and financial materiality criteria
  • Stakeholder mapping by affected groups, information needs, influence and rights
  • Define reporting boundaries across subsidiaries, joint ventures and value chains
  • Apply ESRS materiality assessment documentation and disclosure decision records
  • Prioritise climate, pollution, water and workforce topics using scored evidence
  • Maintain an auditable materiality trail from inputs to board approval

Participants can design an organisational emissions inventory and calculate core Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions.

  • GHG Protocol organisational boundaries: equity share, financial control and operational control
  • Scope 1 source identification for fuels, refrigerants and process emissions
  • Calculate Scope 2 location-based and market-based emissions using supplier data
  • Screen Scope 3 categories using spend, activity and supplier information
  • Apply emission factors, global warming potentials and data-quality ratings
  • Document base-year recalculation policy, exclusions and inventory uncertainty

Participants can establish data controls and evidence trails suitable for sustainability reporting assurance.

  • Design sustainability data owners, approval workflows and reporting calendars
  • Evidence files, source-system extracts and version-control conventions for assurance
  • Test completeness, accuracy, cut-off and consistency of non-financial data
  • Create control narratives linking metrics, risks, owners and review evidence
  • Resolve estimation gaps through documented assumptions, proxies and sensitivity analysis
  • Prepare assurance-ready files using limited-assurance evidence expectations and requirements

Participants can assess climate risks and communicate them through enterprise risk management processes.

  • Climate scenario analysis using physical and transition pathways
  • Translate hazards into asset, supply-chain, market and credit exposures
  • Assess likelihood, magnitude, time horizon and financial materiality
  • TCFD-aligned governance, strategy, risk management, metrics and targets disclosures
  • Construct risk registers with controls, residual ratings and treatment actions
  • Escalate climate risks through enterprise risk management reporting cycles

Participants can develop credible emissions targets and a monitored climate transition plan.

  • Set science-based targets using boundary, baseline, ambition and feasibility tests
  • Build marginal abatement cost curves for operational decarbonisation options
  • Energy management indicators: intensity, consumption, demand peaks and renewable procurement
  • Evaluate renewable electricity claims, certificates, power purchase agreements and additionality
  • Develop transition plans with milestones, capital needs and accountable owners
  • Monitor target performance through variance analysis and corrective actions

Participants can prepare aligned climate disclosure inputs using major sustainability reporting standards.

  • IFRS S1 and S2 disclosure architecture, governance and connected information
  • ESRS climate disclosures: E1 metrics, targets, transition plans and policies
  • Map disclosure datapoints to source evidence, controls and accountable owners
  • Align financial statement assumptions with climate-related risks and estimates
  • Report financed emissions and portfolio exposure using sector-relevant methodologies
  • Reconcile sustainability reports, annual reports, websites and investor presentations

Participants can review environmental claims and draft balanced climate communications supported by evidence.

  • Substantiate environmental claims with lifecycle evidence, qualifiers and approval records
  • Identify greenwashing risks in net-zero, carbon-neutral and biodegradable statements
  • Draft balanced climate disclosures covering progress, limitations and uncertainties
  • Apply claims review checklists to marketing, procurement and investor communications
  • Respond to stakeholder challenges using traceable evidence and approved messages
  • Govern public commitments through sign-off matrices and change-control procedures

Participants can create a prioritised climate compliance roadmap with clear accountability and monitoring measures.

  • Create a 12-month climate compliance roadmap with milestones and dependencies
  • Sequence reporting, data, risk and target actions against statutory deadlines
  • Assign RACI roles for boards, executives, control functions and operations
  • Budget for systems, assurance, external advice and capability development
  • Define key risk indicators and management information for oversight
  • Produce a personal application plan for first ninety days

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Climate compliance legal register template
  2. Double materiality assessment model
  3. GHG inventory boundary and data-collection worksheet
  4. Sustainability reporting control checklist
  5. Climate risk and scenario analysis register
  6. 12-month climate compliance action plan

Who should attend

  • Sustainability Managers — responsible for reporting, targets and cross-functional climate programmes
  • ESG Reporting Specialists — need controlled data, disclosure evidence and reporting standards knowledge
  • Risk and Compliance Managers — need to incorporate climate obligations into enterprise controls
  • Environmental and Energy Managers — need to connect operational emissions and energy data to reporting
  • Finance and Investor Relations Professionals — need consistent climate disclosures and financial statement links
  • Procurement and Supply Chain Managers — need to address supplier emissions, evidence and environmental claims

Skills and tools covered

Climate compliance managementGHG emissions accountingSustainability data controlsClimate risk assessmentESG disclosure preparationGreen claims review

Tools and standards

GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, IFRS S1 and IFRS S2, European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), TCFD recommendations

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to introduce standards, reporting methods and control requirements, followed by facilitated case work drawn from emissions reporting, energy management, supply-chain data and public claims. Small-group exercises examine materiality decisions, climate risk registers, data-quality issues and disclosure evidence. Simulations test how teams respond to assurance questions, investor scrutiny and challenged environmental statements. Participants then translate the methods into an application plan for their reporting cycle, organisational structure and priority compliance gaps.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have basic familiarity with their organisation’s sustainability, environmental, risk, finance or reporting responsibilities. Experience reading internal reports, working with operational data, participating in audits, or contributing to policy and compliance work is useful. Participants should understand common business terms such as materiality, controls, budgets and reporting deadlines. Prior experience calculating greenhouse-gas emissions or preparing ESG disclosures is not required. The course does not require technical climate science, advanced accounting, legal qualifications, programming skills or prior knowledge of IFRS S1, IFRS S2 or ESRS.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants need basic familiarity with business reporting, compliance, environmental management, risk or sustainability work. Prior emissions-accounting, assurance or reporting-standard experience is useful but not required.

Participants should bring examples of their organisation's sustainability reports, emissions data, policies, risk registers or reporting deadlines where permitted. No specialist software is required.

The course suits professionals with responsibilities for sustainability, ESG reporting, energy, environmental management, risk, compliance, finance, procurement or internal controls. It is particularly relevant where teams must coordinate data and evidence across several functions.

General awareness courses focus mainly on climate science, impacts and personal or organisational awareness. This course concentrates on compliance obligations, emissions inventories, reporting standards, controls, assurance evidence, climate risk and public claims.

Participants can use the templates and methods to identify compliance gaps, improve reporting controls, assign data ownership and prepare for assurance. The final application plan identifies priority actions for the first ninety days.

The programme runs for five instructor-led days, normally 08:30-16:30, with about 6.5 contact hours each day. Time is divided among short briefings, cases, group exercises, reporting simulations and structured application planning.

Questions about this course?

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