Designed for

Professionals Working Within; Commercial Banks, Development Banks, Private Equity, Risk Capital and Infrastructure Funds, Institutional Investors, Utilities Companies, Staff of Central Bank of Nigeria and Finance Experts, Climate Change Specialists, Officials of Environment and Finance Initiatives, Officials in Banks of Industry etc...

Course Introduction

Green finance can effectively alleviate environmental pollution and climate change. Accelerating the development of green finance is the primary motivation for sustainable development. Green finance moderates the relationship between innovation and energy-environment- climate nexus. Green financing is to increase level of financial flows (from banking, micro-credit, insurance and investment) from the public, private and not-forprofit sectors to sustainable development priorities. A key part of this is to better manage environmental and social risks, take up opportunities that bring both a decent rate of return and environmental benefit and deliver greater accountability.

Green finance delivers economic and environmental advantages to everybody. It broadens access to environmentally- friendly goods and services for individuals and enterprises, equalizing the transition to a low-carbon society, resulting in more socially inclusive growth. This results in a ‘great green multiplier’ effect in which both the economy and the environment gain, making it a win-win situation for everyone.

By attending this program, professionals in the banking sector will learn how green financing could be promoted through changes in countries’ regulatory frameworks, harmonization of public financial incentives, alignment of public sector financing decision-making with the environmental dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals, increases in investment in clean and green technologies, financing for sustainable natural resource-based green economies and climate smart blue economy, increase use of green bonds, and so on.