Key Features:

Course Goal: Domain first (Climate Finance & Risk) -> Banking First (Balance sheet, P&L, risk, regulation) -> AI Augmented as an enabler (interwoven into the core content of modules – not isolated technology) – transitioning from Compliance to Strategic Leadership.

Program Structure: The program is delivered as six interconnected modules, each building upon and linking to the previous one, as well as hooking into the next. The structure follows a logical banking workflow: from understanding the risk (M1), to gathering data (M2), quantifying the impact (M3), reporting it (M4), governing the process (M5), and applying it (M6)

Learning Outcomes: Foundation → Translation → Measurement → Integration → Disclosure → Strategy – every step AI Augmented.

By the end of the program, participants’ learning outcomes:

1. Conceptual Clarity

• Interpret physical, transition, and liability risks in banking contexts
• Explain transmission channels and amplification mechanisms into financial systems
• AI Augmentations’ Power Multiplier = a Game changer

2. Risk Translation Capability

• Connect climate risks into Credit, Market, Liquidity, Operational, and Reputational risks
• Identify portfolio-level and sector-level vulnerabilities

3. Data, Climate Information Architecture

• Evaluate climate data sources and limitations
• Apply AI-enabled approaches to enhance climate risk insights

4. Measurement & Decision Capability

• Apply scenario analysis and stress testing frameworks
• Assess balance sheet and P&L impacts of climate scenarios

5. Governance & Regulatory Readiness

• Map Global Reporting and Disclosure standards.
• Understand decision-useful disclosures aligned with global standards

6. Strategic Integration

• Define Risk Appetite and embed climate risk into Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

• Translate climate risk into Balance Sheet strategy, capital management , and business decisions.

Signature features of the Program:

• Practitioner-Led: Experience-Driven, Application Oriented – Real-world practitioner insights and implementation experiences. Moving from Climate Science to Financial Risk, with focus on  the Financialization of Climate Risk.
• Capstone Project: Turning Knowledge into Capability – Climate Risk Transformation Blueprint for a Bank” Moving away from standalone siloed “activities” to unified strategy and action.
• Professional Edge: This is not a “Green” course for “Green” jobs. It is a Banking course for the Future of Finance, ensuring that every professional— from front-line Relationship Managers and Operational teams to C-Suite Executives, are equipped for a climate-adjusted economy transforming banking professionals into “Climate-Resilient Leaders”.
• Practitioners’ Perspectives: Unique, short-format insights (Video Capsules) by senior banking practitioners and industry leaders, providing real-world experiences and best practices as distilled wisdom. Focus on – How Climate Risk Rewrites Traditional Risk.
• AI-Augmented: Not becoming a Technical AI Course but as an Efficiency engine. AI-augmented use cases referenced across modules as value multipliers. “AI-augmented decision capability”
• Industry leading Curriculum:  Developed with deep and real-world insights into the complex universe of Climate Risk and Finance with hands on experience as well as focused interactions with leading banking industry experts and climate finance thought leaders.
• De Gruyter Brill Award: The De Gruyter Brill Award is our prestigious academic award presented to the highest-performing student in each cohort of the CFRA.