Materiality & Risk Management in Sustainability

The Sustainability Management Training Series is a step-by-step training program featuring modules on fundamental sustainability principles, risk and compliance management, sustainable supply chain and strategic sustainability communication.

This training series is broken down into 4 individual modules, from 09/05/2024 to 19/06/2024, in 4 half-days. Each module lasts for half a day from 0900-1230.

The Series is aimed at equipping supply chain professionals, sustainability managers and procurement managers with the essential information to successfully start their sustainability journey, identify and mitigate sustainability risks, ensure regulatory compliance and demonstrate their organisation's commitment to ethical conduct and responsible business practices.

Date and Time

Module 1 05/09/2024 0900-1230 - Core Principles of Sustainability

Module 2 10/09/2024 0900-1230 - Materiality & Risk Management in Sustainability

Module 3 10/10/2024 0900-1230 - Enhancing Sustainable Supply Chains

Module 4 17/10/2024 0900-1230 - Strategic Sustainability Communication

Ideal for: Supply Chain / Sustainability / Procurement Manager

About this Module: Materiality & Risk Management in Sustainability

Materiality refers to the importance of sustainability issues (ESG issues) to a company's business, its financial performance, and reputation. Understanding materiality will help you to identify the most significant sustainability risks and to reduce your company's risk exposure.

As part of your risk management, starting with risk identification and conducing proper risk analysis is essential to prioritize, minimize, monitor, and control the risk impact on your business, at the same time taking into account your organization's resources, risk acceptance level and regulatory compliance requirements.

Join us in Module 2 to learn about the following topics:

1. Materiality: define the sustainability topics you need to focus on

2. Materiality assessment and materiality matrix

3. The risk management process in sustainability

4. Risk response strategies

Language

English

Participation is limited to a maximum of 20 persons per course.