Net Zero, Nature Positive & Equity Self-Assessment & Toolkits for C-suites

COST PER PARTICIPANT: FREE OF CHARGE

Purpose:

The purpose of the tool is to support Chief Financial and Chief Risk Officers understand the role they can play in embedding climate, nature and equity considerations into decision-making processes and contribute towards achieving Net Zero, Nature Positive and Equity goals and ambitions. It seeks to encourage cross-collaboration between different departments and functions to help drive change.

Key Outcomes: 

• Understand your company’s maturity in terms of embedding climate, nature & equity into processes such as strategy & materiality, risk management, metrics & targets, performance management, governance and disclosure;
• Gain practical recommendations on next actions to take and access relevant resources based on your maturity level and function;
• Enhance cross-collaboration within your company to help drive change

Target audience: 

Chief Financial Officers and Chief Risk Officers, and their teams – primary audience. 

This tool is open to anyone and is relevant to a variety of sectors. There is also a Food & Agriculture specific version of the tool. While the tool has been developed with CFOs and CROs in mind, it is meant to foster cross-functional collaboration and can therefore be useful for several business functions (e.g. sustainability, risk, finance, procurement, etc.). It can also be used by consultancies, NGOs, business associations working closely with the private sector and keen to understand how best to support companies along their sustainability journey.

COURSE DURATION: n/a

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Key materials:

1. A self-assessment that functions as a questionnaire to identify your maturity level on embedding sustainability across a range of decision-making processes;
2. An overview of your self-assessment results to highlight where you are on your journey and what areas you might want to focus on;
3. A set of  personalized toolkits for each pillars of decision-making and your maturity level. The toolkits include next steps and actions you can take, relevant resources and suggestions of departments and functions to collaborate with to help you and your company advance along the journey.

For further details about the tool, how to access it and make best use of it, refer to our User Guide.

How to access the self-assessment & toolkits:

The tool is hosted on the WBCSD Academy, a free of charge and completely private platform. It requires a few simple steps:

1. Create your free, personal account on the WBCSD online Academy sign-up page at: https://academy.wbcsd.org/users/sign_up
2. Within a few minutes, you will receive an email from learn@wbcsd.org to create your password. (You may need to check your SPAM folder for this automated email.)
3. Click the link in the email to set up your password and gain access to the Academy.
4. On the Home page in the Academy, scroll down to the Net Zero, Nature Positive and Equity Self-Assessments and Toolkit section and select the assessment of your choice.