About, Benefits & Outcomes

Leading in the climate transition
continuing the journey 

  • How is your organisation positioned to enhance its resilience through robust transition planning?
  • Is your organisation equipped to maximise the opportunities from the transition?
  • Are your Financial Statements fully aligned with your Climate Statements?

This unique and focused INFINZ masterclass will provide senior executives with the further practical skills to understand the impacts of climate change on your business model and strategy, and equip you with more knowledge needed to ensure your transition planning builds resilience and leverages the opportunities. 


Benefits & Outcomes

This course seeks to equip senior executives with more knowledge and a deeper understanding of how to practically apply the strategy disclosures in the Climate Standards and the key learning outcomes include: 

  • Unpacking the strategy disclosure requirements of the Climate Standards – the journey from risks to strategy
  • Understanding how the risks of climate change can impact your organisation’s financial stability
  • Maximising scenario analysis as a tool to determine the current and anticipated risks and impacts climate change may plausibly have on your business model and strategy, and how to use the analysis to test strategy resilience
  • Gaining knowledge on what’s involved, and how to be successful, in transition planning
  • Learning how to financially quantifying the current and anticipated financial impacts
  • Appreciating the links between your Climate Statements and your Financial Statements.

Programme OBJECTIVE

The objective of the strategy disclosures in the Aotearoa New Zealand Climate Standard is to enable your primary users understand how climate change is impacting your organisation, and how it may do so in the future.  These disclosures are also about describing how you will position your organisation as the economy transitions to a low-emissions, climate-resilience future state.  It’s clear that a ‘Business as Usual’ response will no longer suffice and that collectively need to build organisational resilience. 

This masterclass provides a focused ‘deep dives’ into the strategy disclosure requirements of the Climate Standard, including scenario analysis as tool to improve resilience, how to go about transition planning, the financial quantification of impacts, and the links between Climate Statements and Financial Statements.  


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The course is tailored to senior executives and other corporate professionals with an interest in understanding how to successfully transition their organisation.  It is expected the course would be of most benefit to senior professionals such as: 

  • Chief Executive Officers
  • Directors
  • Chief Financial Officers and Treasurers
  • Heads of Strategy and/or operations
  • Chief Risk Managers
  • Legal Counsel and Investor Relations
  • Senior Sustainability Managers
  • Strategic, legal and financial advisors to the C-suite. 

PRE-REQUISITES

A basic understanding of the Aotearoa New Zealand Climate Standards is preferred.  

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