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Time, Cost and Venue

Thursday 22 - Friday 23 June 2006
9am - 5.30 pm
USD 500 / HKD 3,900
Cliftons Training Centre
Level 33, 9 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong

Workshop Objectives

Jointly presented by the International Finance Corporation's Sustainable Financial Markets Facility (IFC) and the Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA), the workshop will provide an introduction to sustainable finance, how it applies to lending and investments, and how to develop a systematic approach to identifying and evaluating the issues of sustainability.

This two day workshop is designed to help institutions gain competitive advantage through the delivery of value-adding environmental services to industry clients. The workshop assists financial managers to complete three tasks:

Assess the strategic rationale for environmental and social management
Perform cost-effective environmental and social risk management (ESRM) of investments
Implement value-adding environmental and social management techniques institution-wide

Workshop Contents

Participants will be guided through five steps towards developing their Sustainability Management System (SMS). Each step is initiated by a presentation providing a thorough understanding of the issues, followed by a group exercise to develop that portion of the SMS.

Step 1: Business Priorities
Step 2: Sustainability Policy
Step 3: Procedures
Step 4: Resources & Commitment
Step 5: Monitoring & Feedback

Target Audience

The workshop is tailored to management staff in financial institutions who are in charge of credit risk management, environmental management and sustainability issues. Many leading global banks have now established lending policies on complex issues such as pulp, paper, timber and extractive projects. The seminar will put these efforts in context and highlight the credit rationale and system strategies needed to implement these types of policies.

The Competitive Business Advantage workshop is an interactive event, drawing on the experience and insight of participating managers as well as the trainers. The workshop is based on participant centered learning and teaching methods include case studies, videos, software tools and group exercises.

All participants shall receive a full copy of the training materials and additional documentation after the workshop.

About the Trainers

The trainers delivering the workshop have international experience in both financial and sustainability issues with particular expertise in the materiality of sustainability issues in the Asian region. The Competitive Business Advantage training workshop has to date been delivered to the senior management of over two hundred financial institutions across more than 45 markets.

CBA is a workshop presented by IFC's Sustainable Financial Markets Facility, which is currently supported by funding from the governments of Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and Luxembourg.

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