Climate Governance for Australian Directors

In a four-week interactive online course, you’ll learn about your evolving climate-related duties and responsibilities, navigate new  regulations and explore emerging climate risks and opportunities. 

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Strengthen your board’s climate capability

As an Australian director, a solid grasp of climate governance is essential.​

​​Climate Governance for Australian Directors  is an online short course designed to keep you up to date on all areas of climate-related governance in  Australia. ​​​​

In four interactive online sessions with facilitators and peers, you’ll build on your knowledge of climate science, unpack your evolving climate-related duties and responsibilities, navigate new  regulations, consider evolving stakeholder expectations, and explore emerging climate risks and opportunities.

​By the end of this course, you’ll learn more about your climate-related governance obligations (if applicable) and have the confidence to assess climate-related risks and opportunities from a governance perspective. ​

CGI Approved

This course is recognised as a  Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) Approved Course. This rigorous accreditation reflects the course’s relevance and quality, making it one of the few globally approved programs of its kind.

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You’ll get the most out of this course if you have some level of prior governance knowledge. This can be through courses such as the below or similar:

  • Company Directors Course™​

  • Foundations of Directorship™​

  • Governance Foundations for NFP Directors ​

​If you’re new to climate governance, we recommend you complete the  Introduction to  Climate Governance  e-Learning module before you enrol in Climate Governance for Australian Directors. 

By taking this short course, you will:

 

  • Strengthen your governance knowledge – understand your director duties, reporting obligations, and how they apply to climate governance.  
     

  • Build confidence in oversight – develop a practical set of critical questions to probe climate risks, opportunities, and strategy at board level. 
     

  • Apply real-world insights – explore the Australian climate governance landscape through case studies, reporting requirements, and practical tools such as scenario planning and transition planning. 
     

  • Learn with peers – engage in live, facilitated online sessions with a facilitator and peers from diverse sectors and share successes, challenges, and innovative approaches. 
     

  • Stay ahead of emerging issues – deepen your understanding of evolving topics such as the circular economy, biodiversity impacts, target setting, and transition planning, and their implications for your organisation

  • Course duration: Four weeks

  • You will gain access to your Course Materials in MyLearning on the start date of your course.

  • 2-hour interactive online sessions every week facilitated by an experienced director with contemporary expertise in Australian climate governance. Comprehensive online course materials, supplementary reading, videos and case studies to support your learning.

  • Expect to dedicate approximately 5 hours per week on reflection, preparatory reading and activities prior to the live sessions.​

  • You will earn 10 CPD units upon completion. ​​

Please note the Course Cut-Off date for the purposes of transfers and refunds is two weeks (14 days) prior to the course start date.

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