Green Finance Masterclass

COURSE DURATION   5 DAYS

Date: 19^th to 23^rd October 2026

Introduction

Green finance seeks to generate positive environmental outcomes by channelling capital towards environmentally sustainable projects and initiatives. This includes investments in areas like renewable energy, energy efficiency, and pollution control.  The primary goal is to support the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient, and resource-efficient economy. It aims to balance profit maximization with environmental and social risks and impacts.

Highlights of the Course

Green finance is broader than climate finance (which focuses specifically on climate change mitigation and adaptation). This Course will encompass a wider range of environmental objectives, such as:

• Natural resource conservation
• Biodiversity protection
• Water, sanitation, and waste management
• Industrial pollution prevention and control

Objectives

This course helps learners to:

• Understand the science of climate change and its impacts.
• Explore climate risks, environmental sustainability, and emerging risks.
• Learn about green and sustainable financial products and services in banking, investment, and insurance.
• Recognise the role of finance professionals in supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Who Should Attend?

This Green Finance training course is ideal for professionals across various fields, especially:

• Finance Managers
• Banking Professionals
• Strategy Team Members
• Risk Management Professionals
• Commercial Managers
• Capital Investment and Project Team Members

Training Methodology

The Green Finance training course will incorporate diverse, proven learning techniques to ensure optimal understanding, comprehension, and retention. These will include presentations, case scenarios, discussion, and video clips. The training course will adopt an interactive workshop format focused on developing practical skills, allowing delegates to apply their knowledge in real-life business situations upon returning to their organizations.

Course Outline

DAY 1: Sustainable Finance and Green Finance

• Climate change and our changing world
• Building a sustainable financial system
• Greening finance, financing green, and transition finance
• Responsible for retail, commercial, and corporate banking products and services
• Measuring and reporting impacts, alignment, and flows of green and sustainable finance
• Risk management

DAY 2: Green Loans Financing Sustainability

• What makes a loan a green loan
• Types of green loans
• Green loan principles
• How does a green loan report its impact
• The connection between green loans and green bonds
• Green project for a green loan

DAY 3: Green and Sustainable Bonds

• Debt capital markets, and the development of the green and sustainable bond market
• Green, social, sustainability-linked, and other forms of sustainable bonds (e.g. blue bonds, transition bonds)
• Green bond principles, social bond principles, sustainability-linked bond principles
• Green bond listings, indices, and funds
• Securitisation
• Green project for green bonds

DAY 4: Responsible and Sustainable Investment

• Foundations of investment and the role of equity markets in the financial system
• Sustainable investment, ESG, and similar terms – definitions and comparisons
• Principles for responsible investment
• Sustainable investment strategies and themes
• Growth of sustainable investment, factors driving this (risk, regulation, returns), and challenges to further growth (especially greenwashing)
• Sustainable investment products, including funds (mutual, index, ETF, etc), indices, private equity, venture capital, angel investing

DAY 5: Insurance – Impact Underwriting

• The insurance sector and the physical impacts of climate change
• Sustainable finance product issuance trends
• Principles for sustainable insurance
• Impact underwriting: personal insurance, including green home insurance and green motor insurance
• Impact underwriting: commercial and corporate insurance, including commercial property, renewable energy
• Climate risk insurance, including sovereign catastrophe risk pooling and index insurance

Certificate

• On successful completion of this training course, the ALARDI Africa Certificate will be issued to the participants.

Venue:

Kenya-Nairobi     –   Cost USD 1800

DRC-Goma    –    Cost USD 2100

Malaysia-Kuala Lumpur    –  Cost USD 2500

Date: 19^th to 23^rd October 2026