TRAINING COURSE

Climate risk knowledge: fundamental foundations

Through our partnership with Informed.City, Mosaic now offers training courses around sustainability, to help our clients enhance their understanding of climate issues and apply this knowledge practically.

A reasonable understanding of the scientific principles underlying climate change and how society addresses the myriad of risks it poses is instrumental for guiding effective organisational responses. Never more so than now with Aotearoa New Zealand’s climate-related disclosure mandatory regime in force.

This course goes to back to basics by exploring the scientific basis of climate change and examining how the nature of climate risk, influenced by these dynamics and society’s reaction, requires a unique set of tools distinct from those used in traditional risk management.

Completion of this short course will support participants decide how best to address climate-related risks for their organisation.

Course Schedule

Where: TBC
When: TBC

Course pricing

The course price is as follows:

Classroom of 5 to 16 participants $1,200 + GST

Further course dates may be added to the schedule, please contact us at training@mosaicfsi.com for an up-to-date list of all scheduled courses. The course price is in New Zealand Dollars and is exclusive of GST, please add GST to any PO or payment.

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Duration

90 minutes in person (or a session tailored to individual business needs).

Course Content

A brief Introduction to:
- the scientific foundations of climate change including observed changes to date and what science projects may come.
- emergent trends in how society has and is responding to climate change.

Discussion of how the physical aspects of climate change (physical risk) interact with society’s responses (transition risk) to form a risk that can’t be managed with traditional risk management methods and toolsets.
Consideration of tools and approaches that can help build the resilience of your organisation to climate-related risks.

What you’ll learn

The principles that underpin climate physical risk and transition risk.
An understanding of the key characteristics of climate-related risk and how it differs from traditional risk.
Background knowledge to identify and support the key processes, roles and tools required to develop your business’ resilience to climate-related risk.

Meet your facilitators

Donovan Burton

Donovan is the Director of Informed.City and is a highly experienced climate change practitioner with a diverse portfolio of experience. Over the past 18 years he has worked on over 350 climate change projects in NZ, Australia, the Pacific and SE Asia. During this time, he has carried out work with financial organisations, property developers, infrastructure providers, transport networks, ports, information technology companies, insurers, UN agencies, research organisations and all levels of government.

His recent work in NZ has focussed on banking and investment sector exposure to climate risk, climate scenario development, climate risk model development and climate risk management. Donovan is also a working group member of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) World Adaptation Science Program (WASP) and an Associate of the Griffith University Climate Response Initiative. This diverse portfolio gives Donovan unique insight into cascading climate change risks.

Ian Edwards

Ian has been consulting on climate-related issues for over ten years. During that time, he has worked with development banks, large infrastructure providers and advisors, state and local governments, and NGOs. Since 2021, Ian has supported New Zealand financial institutions develop and implement a raft of climate-related risk, strategic and emissions-focused initiatives in accordance with best practice and regulator expectations. Ian understands the importance of organisational capability and works hard to upskill the clients he advises.

Ian sits on the Science-based Targets Initiative financial institution expert advisory group, is an associate with Griffith University’s Climate Ready Initiative and has published his work on climate-relate disclosure in the prestigious journal Nature Climate Change. Ian has a background as a Chartered Accountant with over twenty years experience in the international financial services sector.

How Do I Pay?

Enclosed below are the details for payment into our account, plus company details if you need to set Mosaic up as a supplier and/or provide us with a Purchase Order. If you require an invoice, please indicate on the booking form. We do require at least your purchase order or payment (where no purchase order is provided) prior to the course unless prior arrangements have been made.

Company Name: Mosaic Business Solutions T/A Mosaic Financial Services Infrastructure
Registered Address: 72 Mountain Road, Epsom, Auckland 1023
Primary Office Address: 131 Queen Street, Level 2, Suite 204, Central Auckland, Auckland 1010
GST No: 103843782
Account Name: Mosaic Business Solutions

For further information or queries about the course please do not hesitate to contact us at training@mosaicfsi.com

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