ESG Reporting, Carbon Accounting & Stakeholder Communication-May 2025
12th – 15th May 2025
Dusit Thani Hotel, Dubai -U.A.E.
Course overview
This 4-day program is designed to empower board members, executives, and sustainability professionals with the practical knowledge and skills needed to master ESG planning, NetZero strategies, and stakeholder communications. Participants will gain real-world insights into sustainability frameworks, ESG analysis, and impact evaluation, while also developing proficiency in ESG reporting standards and environmental parameter management. Through interactive sessions and real-world case studies, attendees will learn to integrate UNSDG goals, navigate decarbonization strategies, and effectively communicate sustainability initiatives using digital media, fostering a culture of transparency and accountability within their organizations.
Learning Outcomes
- Foundational ESG Understanding: Comprehend sustainability, UN SDG’s 17 Goals, PRI-ESG dynamics, and the importance of GHG/NetZero through a new performance scorecard.
- Practical ESG Analysis: Examine real-world ESG applications, addressing corporate greed, environmental disasters, and supply chain challenges via MENA/ASEAN case studies.
- Impact Evaluation: Assess institutional, stakeholder, and internal agency pressures, understanding legal implications, with a focus on GHG influence on decisions.
- ESG Reporting Proficiency: Familiarize with IFRS, TCFD, SASB, GRI, IR frameworks. Understand ERG metrics, carbon values, and the environmental emphasis in COP26, COP27, COIP28 for ESG reporting.
- UNSDG & ESG Integration: Develop skills in scoping UNSDG 17s, aligning them strategically via OKRs, and selecting ESG materiality for organizational goals.
- ESG Metric Mastery: Grasp environmental, social, and governance metrics, proficiently designing enterprise-level metrics for operational and stakeholder impact.
- Net Zero & Decarbonization: Understand GHG impact, COP28 outcomes, Scope 1, 2, 3 differentiations. Formulate a decarbonization strategy and review technical templates for implementation.
- Environmental Parameter Management: Master GHG emissions, energy wastage, water pollution, waste reduction (3R), soil and air impact assessment, adopting effective accounting and reporting practices.
- ESG Trifecta Integration: Understand ESG Trifecta elements, assess their organizational impact, and refine business models for sustainability integration.
- Sustainability Communication: Apply sustainability via VM process, creating compelling narratives for stakeholder engagement and effective communication, including investor relations.
- ESG Reporting Excellence: Develop skills in KPI/OKR setting, data collection, analysis, reporting, corrective action, and engage in circular economy modeling for comprehensive ESG reporting.
- Stakeholder Mapping: Develop skills in KPI/OKR setting, data collection, analysis, reporting, corrective action, and engage in circular economy modeling for comprehensive ESG reporting.
- Green Washing: : Understand the risks of greenwashing and develop strategies to avoid misleading sustainability claims.
- Crisis Communication: : Develop effective communication strategies to manage sustainability-related crises and maintain stakeholder trust.
- Leveraging on Digital Media: Explore techniques for using digital media to communicate sustainability initiatives and engage stakeholders effectively.
| Day-01 | Day-02 |
|---|---|
| Module 1: Introduction | Module 5: UNSDG 17s, OKR Setting & ESG Materiality |
| • Sustainability • UN SDG’s 17 Goals • PRI and ESG Relationship • GHG & NetZero Emission • Rise New Performance Scorecard | • Scoping UNSDG 17s Goals • Rethinking Corporate Vision & Mission • Translating into OKR to guide management • Picking the right ESG Materiality |
| Module 2: Overview of ESG Application | Module 6: What are the ESG Metrics and Their Implications |
| • Corporate Greed • Environmental Disaster • Activist Protest • Product Development • Supply Chain Issues • Mini Case Studies MENA vs ASEAN | • Environmental Metrics • Social Metrics • Governance Metrics • Designing the right ESG metrics at Enterprise Level |
| Module 3: Review on External Pressures and Their Direct Impact | Module 7: Net Zero Emission & Decarbonization Journey |
| • Institutional Pressures with Legal & Non-Legal Implication • Stakeholder Pressures with a broad impact on business • Agency Pressure, the forces from within GHG Pressure | • GHG Impact & Net Zero Emission • COP28 Outcome • Scope 1, 2 & 3 • Decarbonization Strategy • Setting your GHG Baseline • Review on Technical Templates |
| Module 4: ESG Reporting Framework | Module 8: Environmental Parameter |
| • IFRS, TCFD, SASB, GRI & IR Overviews • ERG Metrics and Rubics • Carbon Metrics and Values Definitions • COP26, COP27 & COIP28 Emphasis on Environment • MENA/OIC Nations GHG Performance • The function of Private Enterprise | • GHG Emission – Scope 1, 2 & 3 • Energy Wastage • Water Pollutions • Waste Reduction – with 3R • Earth Soil Impact • Air Pollutions Index • Adaptation to accounting and reporting |
| Day-03 | Day-04 |
|---|---|
| Module 9: ESG Trifecta as Integration Framework | Module 13: Sustainability Communication and Greenwashing |
| • The Overview of Trifecta Elements • The Action Component • The Impact on Organization Performance • Rethinking Business Model & Strategy | • Corporate Reputation Positioning • Stakeholder Tactical Engagement • Communication Plan • Greenwashing and investors concern • Avoid Over Claiming |
| Module 10: Rethinking Your Corporate Vision and Mission | Module 14: Crisis Communication |
| • Mini Case Study • The VM Process with Sustainability Theme • Establish Narrative to Engage Stakeholders • Communicating with Stakeholders • Investors Relations | • How does a crisis happens ? • SG risk as crisis • Crisis Communication Framework • Action Plan • Insource Vs Outsource |
| Module 11: Mapping for ESG Reporting | Module 15: Leverage on Digital Media |
| • KPI/OKR Setting • Data Collection • Data Analysis • Reporting • Corrective Action • Values Chain with Circular Economy Modelling | • Impact of Digital Media and Social Media • The risk with Digital Media • Digital Media Mix and Planning • Case Examples • Action Plan |
| Session 4: Asset Criticality & Risk-Based Maintenance | Session 4: Cybersecurity & Risk Management in Smart Maintenance |
| • Equipment hierarchy and asset prioritization for strategic maintenance planning • Identifying high risk assets and failure modes • Balancing cost, risk, and performance in reliability planning • Workshop: Asset Prioritization Determining Critical Equipment & Risk Levels | • Identifying cybersecurity risks in AI driven maintenance systems • Best practices for securing IoT enabled reliability solutions • Aligning with industry compliance standards (ISO 27001, NIST, etc.) • Case Study: Cybersecurity Failures in Maintenance Lessons Learned |
| Module 12: Stakeholder Mapping | Pre-Conclusion |
| • Stakeholder Mapping Framework • Discussion on each Stakeholder implication • Risk types associated with each Stakeholder • Macro – level planning and resource allocation | • Certificate Presentations • Final Review • Participants Feedback |