Dates and location
Hours
Dates and location
Hours
Description
Explore how environmental challenges are reshaping financial outcomes across businesses, financial institutions, and entire industries. Climate change intensifies a wide range of environmental issues, from water availability and land use to soil health and food production, introducing significant and growing risks for organizations of all sizes. This course examines how these interconnected pressures translate into financial impacts, equipping learners to understand and navigate the evolving risk landscape confronting company operators, investors, and industries in a changing world.
Topics Include:
- Environmental Issues
- Energy & GHG Emissions
- Water Management
- Land Management, Deforestation and Biodiversity
- Water Generation & Associated Disposal
- Waste Management Perspectives
- Material Selection & Stewardship
- ESG & Financial Performance
- Environmental Issue Prioritization
Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Assess the material relevance of core environmental issues.
- Determine how each environmental issue can pose potential risks and opportunities.
- Compare and contrast the relevance of environmental issues to different industries and stakeholders.
- Analyze how a company’s environmental management impacts their financial performance.
- Recommend how to prioritize engagement of environmental issues.
Who Will Benefit
This course is relevant to a broad range of business and financial professionals who want to understand the financial implications of environmental issues management.
Disclaimer
Most of CPA Ontario's 450+ on-demand courses are compatible with the mobile app. Unfortunately, this on demand course is not compatible. For the best learning experience, we suggest you use your computer.
How to Access the Course
To access the course on your computer please visit our BlackBoard site, and log-in using the same login and password used for the Registration Portal.
Please allow up to 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear on your BlackBoard page.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Noah Miller worked in ESG consulting, social entrepreneurship, and served in a variety of internal and external consulting capacities. Most recently he spent two years with Summit Strategy Group, serving as the Senior Director of their ESG Consulting and Stakeholder Engagement Practice. Noah has also been an internal management consultant for Keurig-Dr. Pepper (a US-based and publicly listed multinational) and advised global non-profits on revenue generation and program development. Noah currently supports a variety of NGOs on a pro-bono basis – including as a board member for Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) and sitting on the ESG committee for the Green Building Initiative (GBI).