Certified Expert in Climate Adaptation Finance

Overview

As facilitators of the economy, financial institutions have a central role in the transformation to low carbon and climate-resilient development. Their responsibility is twofold: greening their portfolios towards Paris compatible financing and investments, and reflecting and integrating climate-related risks into their risk management processes. This gradual process involves harmonising short-term business cycles and investment horizons with systemic and long-term thinking by all actors from the financial sector (e.g. banks, asset managers, insurers, pension funds, investment consultants, regulators, rating agencies). This process is supported by public actors who moderate the structural change required for a transition to climate-resilient economies.

This Certified Expert in Climate Adaptation Finance course at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management provides the basics of finance and investment for assessing the financial viability of investments in adaptation projects. It clusters business models to provide an understanding of the parameters according to the project scale and, for example, revenue models, ownership structure, and value proposition, and will link to the financing perspective. Different investors and intermediaries have very different investment strategies, level of risk appetite, return expectations, and investment horizons. Crowding in the right investor for a project is essential to ensure their long-term involvement and the required scale-up of investment volumes.

What Do We Offer?

• An interactive e-learning course including video lectures, PDF scripts, practical exercises, online tests and case studies.

• A discussion forum for course related issues as well as for exchange of opinions and experiences with your classmates and tutors.

• Personalized support from your e-Campus Team.

• The possibility to achieve a Frankfurt School certificate after passing the final exam or a confirmation of course completion after completing the course.