EU Taxonomy - Sustainable Finance in Practice

The EU Taxonomy is a key building block of sustainable finance in Europe. It defines how to identify environmentally sustainable economic activities. Disclosure regulations and demand for sustainable financial products create the need for financial institutions to understand and operationalise the EU Taxonomy.

This course is ideal for investment professionals/financial market participants who would like to improve their understanding for investments into environmentally sustainable economic activiteis. The course aims to assist investment professionals to gain a firm understanding of the EU Taxonomy and its practical implementation.

The Introductory and Expert course build on one another. If you already have knowledge on the basic principles of the EU Taxonomy, you can decide to choose the Expert course only.

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and ELS Europe have teamed up to provide the trainings to get your organisation ready for the EU Taxonomy. Our experienced trainers have an profound understanding of the EU Taxonomy and are partly active members of the European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance and the European Commission’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG).
 

The Introductory course is designed for those with no exposure or only a rudimentary understanding of EU Taxonomy. It will furnish participants with the neceassry knowledge to be able to advance to the Expert course. 

Topics Covered

Technical Aspects of EU Taxonomy

• Introduction to applying the EU Taxonomy
• Six environmental objectives pusued in EU Taxonomy
• Substanstial contribution to climate mitigation and adaptation onjectives against EU.
• Do no significant harm to climate and other environmental objectives against EU Taxonomy TSC
• Minimum social safeguards

Role of the Taxonomy in the EU Sustainable Finance Context

• Future development of the EU Taxonomy

Short Case Study

For the Expert course, basic principles of the EU Taxonomy need to be understood and first pilot implementation should be planned or ongoing in your organization.

Topics Covered

Data Requirements

• Where can data for Taxonomy application be sources (internal and external/public sources.
• Is necessary data available at appropriate quality and comprehensiveness/coverage
• Data curation
• Managing data challenges
• Overview of potential solutions

Disclosure Obligations

• Deep dive disclosure obligations
• Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR)
• Fiduciary duties
• Regulatory framework in more detail
• Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)
• Non-financial Reporting Directive (NFRD)

Short Case Study

• In-depth case studies

The FS-UNEP Centre

The content of this course was developed by the Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (http://fs-unep-centre.org/). The Centre is a strategic cooperation between Frankfurt School and the UN Environment programme. Its vision is to advance transformation to resilient low-carbon and resource-efficient economies by attracting new types of investors, in particular catalysing the financing of clean energy by the private sector. The Centre is UNEP’s major knowledge hub for climate finance related aspects.

ELS Europe

ELS Europe is a market leading consultancy providing sustainable finance and risk management solutions for multi-national and national actors across financial and industrial operations. Effective environmental solutions are readily implemented with measurable and verifiable results for environmental risk reduction, financial sustainablility and profitability.

You have further questions? Please feel free to contact us directly. You may also have a look at the FS-UNEP Centre's Training Website to discover other programmes.