Sustainable finance and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are top of the agenda of bank regulatory authorities, as is climate change risk and how this will impact banks. The PRA has published PS11/19 which requires banks to address climate risk management and how this impacts business models. There is also an urgent need for banks to demonstrate that they are incorporating ESG and climate change factors into their stress testing process.

This workshop addresses all these key issues and provides a good-practice guide on how to incorporate them into a bank's risk management processes and business model.

This half-day workshop provides comprehensive coverage of business good-practice approach to sustainable banking, ESG and Climate Change Risk, to ensure optimum compliance with PRA guidance as well as meet increasing customer expectations in this space.

By the end of this workshop you will be able to:

• explain the meaning and impact of green banking
• understand the demand for green banking products and how the bank can supply this demand
• draft product terms and issuance factors for Green Banking
• identify climate risk as a concept in bank risk management practice
• review climate risk impact from both bank and customer perspective
• ensure bank is complying with regulator requirement on climate risk management
• address impact of climate risk exposure from a capital management perspective and hence incorporate necessary change to the ICAAP and ILAAP processes
• incorporate climate risk management into risk management and stress testing framework
• assess potential impact of climate risk exposure on the balance sheet
• devise metrics for inclusion in risk appetite statement
• understand the process used to estimate extent of climate risk exposure