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Summary
A two day in person (or four sessions online) course dedicated to understanding climate transition finance and the role of the financial and specifically the fixed income markets in financing credible decarbonisation projects, activities, and trajectories through sustainable bonds and other financial instruments and products.
The syllabus gives an overview of the key global frameworks, guidance and tools developed by both market and regulatory initiatives (e.g. ISSB, GFANZ, SBTi, NZIF, UK TPT). By combining this with practical implementation, case studies, and external speaker contributions, candidates will leave with a better understanding of the tools available to implement a transition strategy and how this can be financed in the capital markets.
Learning Outcomes
By completing the programme, you will gain an understanding of:
- The background and rationale for transition strategies
- How sustainable bonds can be used to raise transition finance, along with pertinent disclosures. This will include case studies of real world transactions
- How transition is characterised in global taxonomies
- How the public sector has incorporated the transition differently around the world through official guidance and regulations
- The importance of transition plans, their key components and current disclosure frameworks
- How issuers can set targets and the tools available to them, as well as how external reviewers evaluate transition-related sustainable bonds. Supplemented by presentations from one or more of the key providers.
- How investors think about the transition, how this is framed in their investment strategies and key regulation and guidance related to disclosure and fund naming rules.
Who should study the programme?
The qualification is intended for candidates who work in financial markets (either directly or through associated activities) and wish to understand how the transition is framed and can be funded through sustainable bonds and other financial instruments and products.
By giving a widespread overview of transition finance, its meaning, implications for issuers (including from hard-to-abate and fossil fuel sectors), investor approaches, as well as existing transition finance tools and relevant regulations, this course is suitable for a wide array of stakeholders including the regulatory community who wish to understand the key components of this very current, important, and dynamic topic.
A basic awareness of sustainable bonds would be helpful but is not essential.
Assessment
This is a non-assessed course. Those delegates that meet minimum attendance requirements (80%) will receive a Certificate of Attendance, certified by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA)
Programme Recognition
ICMA is an FCA-approved qualifications provider, approved by the Securities & Futures Commission of Hong Kong as provider of Continuous Professional Training (CPT) and a member of the CPD® Certification Service
This course is certified by ICMA and accredited by CPD® Certification Service. ICMA recommends that 20 learning hours can be associated with this course, based on attended/undertaken hours of study required to successfully complete the learning outcomes. A Certificate of Attendance will be awarded to those who successfully pass the final exam of this course – see Assessment section for more details. Please note that your course certificate of attendance or completion should be sufficient to satisfy any professional development requirements – if you require further evidence, please contact us at education@icmagroup.org.
Course Trainer
Syllabus
The syllabus content is divided into several key topic areas:
- Context setting – the need for transition finance
- ICMA’s role in sustainable finance – the GSSS bond Principles and the Climate Transition Finance Handbook (CTFH)
- Market case studies and transition-themed bonds
- Transition finance and taxonomies
- Official-sector guidance globally on transition finance and sectoral decarbonisation roadmaps
- Transition plans, corporate sustainability reporting (including ISSB, ESRS, and UK TPT frameworks)
- Target setters, certification schemes and transition assessments (e.g. SBTi, CBI, external reviewers)
- Investor-side industry frameworks (GFANZ guidance and NZIF) and regulations (transition-focused fund labelling and naming rules)
Livestreamed Course
ICMA courses are delivered via video conferencing accessed on our digital learning platform, using the most effective pedagogical approaches and incorporating interactive functions like virtual breakout rooms.
Transition Finance live sessions are delivered in four 3.5 hour sessions over the course of a week. You will be given access to the course materials before the live sessions, and will have access to those for a total of three months from the first live session. During these three months you will have the option to keep working through the course materials at your own pace.
Livestreamed course fees
Members: EUR 2,100 (VAT not applicable)
Non-members: EUR 2,700 (VAT not applicable)
For security reasons, delegates who have not registered in advance will not be admitted to the live sessions.
Please note:
- All payments must be made in Euro.
Contact
Should you have any queries, please contact education@icmagroup.org
