The Corporate Sustainability and Sustainability Reporting Training enables businesses to effectively manage their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. Participants will gain knowledge in developing sustainability strategies, reporting, and ensuring compliance with international standards. This training aims to enhance corporate responsibility and create long-term value.
The training is for professional development purposes, and the certificate obtained does not replace the MYK authorization certificate in trainings where the MYK authorization certificate is mandatory.
1. What is Sustainability?
Definition and Key Concepts: The three main pillars of sustainability: environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
Sustainability Principles: Reducing environmental impact, ensuring resource efficiency, fulfilling social responsibilities, and creating long-term value.
Corporate Sustainability: Integrating sustainability practices into business strategies and identifying opportunities in this process.
2. Developing Sustainability Strategies
Setting Sustainability Goals: Defining and implementing short-, medium-, and long-term sustainability goals.
Corporate Sustainability Policies: Developing and implementing effective sustainability policies for businesses.
Risk and Opportunity Management: Identifying environmental and social risks and creating strategic opportunities in response.
3. ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Indicators
Environmental Indicators (E): Environmental factors such as carbon footprint, water consumption, energy efficiency, and waste management.
Social Indicators (S): Employee rights, community contributions, occupational health and safety, education, and development opportunities.
Governance Indicators (G): Ethical business practices, corporate governance structures, transparency, and internal control mechanisms.
4. Sustainability Reporting
International Sustainability Reporting Standards: Reporting frameworks such as GRI (Global Reporting Initiative), SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board), and TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures).
Reporting Methods: Reporting on ESG performance, measuring, analyzing, and reporting sustainability indicators.
Data Collection and Analysis Processes: Managing the process of collecting, processing, and reporting accurate and reliable sustainability data.
5. ESG and Financial Performance
Sustainability and Financial Value: The impact of sustainability strategies on a company’s financial performance and their importance for investors.
Sustainable Investments: ESG-based investment strategies and the return potential of these investments.
Corporate Responsibility and Carbon Markets: The relationship between carbon trading, green investments, and environmentally-friendly business practices in financial performance.
6. Sustainability Communication and Stakeholder Management
Communicating Sustainability Reports to Stakeholders: Effectively communicating sustainability reports to stakeholders in a clear, transparent, and accurate manner.
Stakeholder Communication Strategies: Ways to communicate sustainability efforts effectively with customers, investors, employees, and the community.
Corporate Reputation Management: The impact of sustainability practices on corporate reputation and how to manage this reputation.
7. Legal Obligations in Sustainability Reporting
Legal Regulations on Sustainability: Local and international legal regulations related to sustainability reporting, and mandatory obligations for companies.
ESG Investor Guidelines: Financial regulations on ESG reporting and investor expectations.
8. Sustainability and Technology
Role of Technology: Digital tools, software, and AI applications in sustainability reporting and data collection processes.
Sustainability Innovation: New technologies, renewable energy solutions, waste recycling, and sustainable production technologies.
The training is open to corporate collaboration and individual applications are not accepted. Based on the corporate participant profile and your specific needs, the training content can be restructured accordingly. Following mutual discussions, the scope and method of the training (In-person, Online) will be determined, and the related processes will be completed. Once an agreement is reached, the suitable dates and times for your organization's participants and instructors, as well as the location of the training, will be finalized.