Auckland & Christchurch 2022
3-DAY PRACTICAL COURSE
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CRD Masterclasses Introductory Series - March 2022
"... it was one of the best CPD events I have ever undertaken."
Mark Butcher, Chief Executive, Local Government Funding Agency
The Climate-Related Disclosures (CRD) regime will be mandatory for New Zealand’s largest 200 financial institutions and large listed issuers, including corporates, starting with reporting periods on or after 1 January 2023.
As the CRD regime also provides a powerful framework for corporates to frame their climate change response and improve organisational resilience, it is expected that, over time, the CRD regime will be more widely adopted. This is in response to the rapidly evolving expectations and requirements of stakeholders, such as investors and other financial institutions, and the need for organisations themselves to urgently adapt to, and to mitigate the effects of, climate change.
To assist corporates understand the journey required, INFINZ has developed a unique and focused CRD training course. This interactive course will provide participants with valuable insights into the practical application of the core elements of the CRD regime. It aims to empower corporates to commence their climate change journey – a journey framed against the Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) – enabling them to largely use their own resources, where appropriate.
The course seeks to pragmatically unpack the essential ‘how to’ elements of the CRD regime: from how to establish effective management governance structures, through to how to set effective targets to improve an organisation’s resilience to climate change.
Benefits & Outcomes
The aim of the course is to equip corporates with the knowledge to understand, and then practically apply, the core elements of the CRD regime. The course aims to empower corporates to confidently undertake their own CRD journey, using their own resources, where appropriate.
Crucially, this course seeks to move the conversation beyond ‘tick the box compliance’ to a conversation which enables participants to strategically improve their organisation’s resilience through robust climate adaption and mitigation.
The key objectives are to:
- assist corporates and the wider eco-system, on the practical application of the core elements of the CRD regime, e.g. through assessing the physical risks of climate change
- empower corporates to confidently unpack, and undertake, the core elements of the CRD largely using their own resources, e.g. carbon footprinting and emission reduction planning
- challenge attendees to consider their organisation’s resilience to climate change, e.g. to evaluate their current adaptation and mitigation plans
- have participants develop their unique practical implementation plan for their organisation - this will form a key deliverable from the course.
Programme Overview
Participants will engage with leading New Zealand practitioners from Chapman Tripp, Deloitte, EY, Tonkin and Taylor and PwC, regulators and standard setters FMA and XRB, and moderated by sustainable finance expert Erica Miles from West Nine Consulting. Topics cover a wide range of areas such as: getting started on carbon footprinting and emissions reduction planning; understanding and assessing physical risks and transitional risks; the integration of climate change in corporate operating model and strategy; how to factor in climate risks into financial models; and getting started on scenario analysis.
The course is broken down into 12 practitioner-focused sessions incorporated into three consecutive days in Auckland.
The course will encourage interactivity and involve practical exercises to support participants depth of understanding and the practical application of the CRD regime’s core elements.
Throughout the course, time will be provided to enable participants to reflect on their own organisation’s performance, and to input into their unique CRD implementation plan.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
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PREPARATION
To ensure participants are able to contribute to the sessions, INFINZ requires each attendee to undertake pre-reading material to set the scene. The reading will be provided in the members section of the website and will also be sent to each registrant prior to commencement.
PROGRAMME & DATES
DAY ONE
Session 1. Introductions, climate change, and CRD fundamentals. Content overview: The session will provide participants with an overview of the course, allow them to make introductions, and to set personal learning objectives. The session will provide participants with an overview of climate change and the CRD Standards. Participants will gain an understanding of:
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Session 2. Regulatory expectations for CRD. Content overview: This session will provide participants with an overview of the following:
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Session 3. Governance basics. Content overview: The session will enable participants to understand the basics of the management governance element of the CRD Standards. Participants will gain an understanding of:
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Session 4. Emissions measurement and assurance…leading to Session 5. Now what? How to develop an Emissions Reduction Plan. Content overview: The first session will focus on understanding the journey corporates need to undertake to measure, reduce and then verify their emissions inventory. In the second session, participants will learn how to develop, and test a practical, yet effective, Emissions Reduction Plan. Participants will gain an understanding of:
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DAY TWO
Session 6. The why and the how of identifying and assessing physical risks. Content Overview This session will provide provide an overview of what a good physical climate risk assessment entails. The session will cover key considerations for planning assessments, developing / agreeing scenarios, risk assessment phases and methodologies, and include a discussion around integrating assessment results into disclosures. Participants will gain knowledge by learning about:
FACILITATORS: James Hughes, Technical Director, Climate and Resilience, and Alex Cartwright, Climate and Risk Consultant, Emergency Management Advisor, Tonkin & Taylor |
Session 7. The climate change regulatory environment and key legal risks from climate-related disclosures. Content Overview This session will provide participants with:
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FACILITATORS: Nicola Swan, Partner, and Alana Lampitt, Partner - Environmental and Resource Management, Chapman Tripp |
Session 8. The why and the how of identifying and assessing transition risks using scenario analysis. Content Overview This session will introduce transition risk scenario analysis, enabling participants to build an understanding of where transition risk scenario analysis fits in the climate risk management journey, what’s required to undertake this type of scenario analysis, and its application as a value input to strategy decisions and risk management for business. Participants will gain an understanding of:
FACILITATOR: Annabell Chartres, Partner, Sustainability & Climate Change Leader, PwC |
DAY THREE
Session 9. Unpacking the latest CRD developments from the XRB. Content overview: The session will provide participants with the latest in the XRB’s CRD Standard development. Participants will gain an understanding of:
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Session 10. Operating model and business planning Content overview: This session will provide guidance on taking all the elements of the CRD regime and applying them to strategic and operational decision making. It will assist in moving CRD from a compliance requirement, to an important and useful tool in ensuring the future success of an organisation’s strategy and business model. Participants will learn:
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Session 11. Achieving our commitments under the Paris Agreement: how to set achievable metrics and targets. Content overview: This session will focus on how setting and embedding climate-related metrics and targets can enable an organisation to benefit from both a risk management and a performance improvement perspective. By having clear, time-bound, and integrated targets organisations will be able to better evaluate their risks and exposures, and ultimately achieve their commitments under the Paris Agreement. Participants will gain an understanding of:
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Session 12. Accounting for climate. The session will provide participants with an overview of the following:
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Speakers
Chapman Tripp
Tonkin & Taylor
Deloitte
West Nine Consulting

FMA
Tonkin & Taylor
Deloitte
Deloitte
External Reporting Board
Chapman Tripp
Tonkin and Taylor

FMA
FMA
EY
