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Overview
This half day course provides delegates with a thorough grounding in ‘unconventional’ risk associated with environmental rather than directly financial considerations, and how these link to activities within organisations and along their supply chains. The course will also cover the management of relationships with suppliers in a risk context and discuss approaches to risk mitigation along supply chains.

The course will consider a range of risk types and stakeholder attitudes and how businesses can reduce exposure or mitigate impact. Although the main focus is environmental risk, the trainer will explain how societal and governance issues interlink with these and with conventional financial risks and how these need to be integrated into an organisation’s risk management processes for them to be effective.

On completion of the course, attendees will:
• Understand the development of risk categories impacting the global economy
• Have an appreciation of the inter-connection of environmental, societal and governance risks and their relationship to financial impacts
• Appreciate citizens’ concerns around the environmental conduct of businesses
• Understand consumer and market drivers in the developing environmental performance of businesses
• Have an overview of policy and regulatory drivers in environmental performance, including the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure
• Understand the principles of the circular economy
• Understand the principles of life-cycle assessments
• Understand the principles of materiality assessments
• Leave the course with a set of objectives for improving their procedures for managing risk

Who should attend?
This course is relevant to Business Managers and Directors, Sustainability Managers, Risk Managers, and anyone else who has responsibility for the effective identification and mitigation of risk within organisations.

Programme

09.00 Registration
09.30 Introductions
Risk – conventional and unconventional
Risk reporting and company accounts
Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
Workshop 1 – risk registers
Citizen expectations of businesses
Consumer and market drivers
Regulatory and policy drivers
Other stakeholders (investors, insurers)
Workshop 2 – key stakeholder identification
11.00 Break
11.15 Understanding impacts including an introduction to Life Cycle Assessments
The circular economy
Workshop 3 – value chains management
Mitigation strategies including an introduction to Materiality
Workshop 4 – Materiality Assessments
Best practice examples including from the attendees’ own experience
Action planning
Questions and discussion
13.00 Close

Thank you! Wonderful day! – BBC

Great day really enjoyed my first zoom course. Great presentation, plus not too heavy – YPO

Thank you! - Thames Water

Would recommend this to my colleagues - ABB Ltd

A useful training course. Pace was correct and Simon handled the Zoom side of things well - University of Glouscestershire

Excellent course, great Instructor knowledge, well adapted to Zoom set up – Collins Construction

Very difficult to do a training Seminar over Zoom but I think the presenter, did a very good job – Hermes investment

With the current COVID-19 requirements forcing the use of Zoom, it will be always be difficult to generate an excellent course, when compared to a face to face setting. However the course was very good with the limitations imposed by Zoom - 4 Rail

Considering the circumstances with the online Zoom meeting, the course went very well with minimal disruption. – LUR Ltd

At first I was a little apprehensive, all day on Zoom may be tough going. I was wrong, the day went quickly and without any problems. – Hathaway Roofing

I thought it worked very well via Zoom and think this should be something that’s considered going forward, it would definitely help from a time / travel perspective - GWR Ltd

Considering this event was delivered via ZOOM, I think it worked very well. Thank you - EDF Energy

Considering it was an all-day event, on a Zoom call, it was well paced. This was the first EBIS course that I have attended at it was fantastic - Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council

All good, thank you! - Motorolla Solutions

Thank you! – EDF Energy

Well delivered - Hobbycraft

Will be returning and recommending – Bell Group