Program Overview
Master Climate Finance to Drive Sustainable Development
This high-impact course introduces participants to climate and sustainable finance instruments that support low-carbon development, environmental protection, and resilience building. Participants will gain practical insight into financial policies, risk frameworks, investment strategies, and innovative tools that unlock climate-related capital in Africa and beyond.
Designed for professionals in finance, environment, and policy-making sectors, the course helps align public and private finance with global climate targets and regional development priorities.
What You Will Learn
💡 Understand sustainable finance principles and tools
📉 Evaluate climate-related financial risks
💵 Analyze green bonds and climate investment frameworks
🌍 Identify Africa-specific climate financing opportunities
⚡ Develop proposals for climate-smart, renewable projects
📊 Navigate public and private sources of climate finance
Course Modules
Module 1: Introduction to Climate and Sustainable Finance
This Course will at accelerating the transition to low carbon economy and the role of climate finance and investments frameworks.
Module 2: Financial Policies for Climate & Sustainability
- The course will look at the nature of climate related financial risks. The theories and practices of financial policy and climate risks. The policy responses to climate and sustainable responses that includes public policy and public finance. Conceptual framing of climate risks and uncertainties in Climate change. Integration of climate risks into investments. Analysing Green bonds for sustainable development.
Sources & Instruments of Climate Financing
This session looks at the sources of Climate Financing and the Processes Involved, Explains different instrument of Climate Financing and their perspectives
Module 4: Climate Financing Opportunities in Africa
Explores economic principles in waste management, economic instruments, monetary valuation of waste business, waste efficiency and management, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Contingent Valuation Methods, waste beneficiation criteria, Solid waste Finance, Financial support tools, Pricing of Municipal waste, Cost recovery framework, Critical decision tool to evaluate business profitability, costs, revenues and operational performance.
Module 5: Climate-Smart Investments & Renewable Energy Projects
This session looks at the Challenges and opportunities for successful investment across Africa by defining regional specific investments, their importance and opportunities.
Who Should Enroll
Climate finance analysts
Government climate desk staff
Development planners & economists
Private sector finance professionals
NGO project officers
Researchers in green economy & public finance
become a Certified Climate and Sustainable Finance Practitioner
Turn capital into climate solutions. Become a leader in sustainable finance.