This practical, one-day ESG & Sustainability Reporting training is designed to cut through complexity and provide clarity. It equips professionals and managers across all functions with a solid understanding of what ESG reporting really is, why it matters, and how they can contribute effectively. ESG reporting depends on data, decisions, and actions that sit across the organisation, not just within sustainability teams, making informed managers essential to successful reporting.
ESG and sustainability reporting are no longer specialist or optional activities. With rapidly evolving UK, EU, and international requirements, organisations of all sizes and sectors are under increasing pressure to report accurately, consistently, and credibly, while avoiding greenwashing risks and regulatory scrutiny.
Managers today are expected to understand how their operational, financial, people, and supply-chain decisions feed into ESG disclosures, targets, and narratives. Without this understanding, organisations face increased risks of data gaps, inconsistencies, compliance failures, and reputational damage. This course helps managers connect ESG reporting to strategy, governance, risk management, and value creation, enabling them to make better decisions and support credible, compliant reporting.
Through a combination of regulatory insight, leading frameworks, best-practice examples, and practical exercises, participants will gain the confidence to navigate key requirements such as SECR, TCFD, CSRD, ESRS, and ISSB, understand materiality and stakeholder expectations, recognise common reporting pitfalls, and contribute meaningfully to ESG reporting processes.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the purpose and scope of ESG and sustainability reporting
- Navigate key UK, EU and international reporting requirements
- Distinguish between major ESG reporting frameworks and standards
- Apply materiality concept to define reporting priorities and focus areas
- Identify data, controls and assurance requirements for for compliant reporting
- Recognise common ESG reporting risks
- Contribute confidently to ESG reporting
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Registration and Overview
- Welcome and introductions
- Course overview and objectives
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Module 1: Introduction to Sustainability and ESG Reporting
- What sustainability and ESG mean in practice
- What ESG reporting is (and what it is not)
- Why reporting matters
- Stakeholders and sustainability expectations
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Break
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Module 2: Regulatory and Policy Landscape (UK & EU):
- UK requirements: Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR), Companies Act disclosures, TCFD-aligned reporting
- EU developments: Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)
- Global direction: ISSB (IFRS S1/S2)
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Lunch
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Module 3: ESG Reporting Frameworks and Standards
- Overview of key standards and frameworks: GRI, SASB, TCFD, ISSB (IFRS S1 & S2), UN SDGs, ESRS
- Selecting the right framework(s) for your organisation
- The concept of Materiality in ESG reporting
- What “good reporting” looks like
- The role of Stakeholders in ESG reporting
- Common reporting pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Practical exercise on Sustainability/ESG reports
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Break
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Module 4 & Module 5
Reporting Readiness
- Data collection and data ownership
- Data quality, consistency and internal controls
- Preparing compliant disclosures
- External assurance
Governance and Accountability
- Governance model for ESG reporting
- Roles and responsibilities across the organisation
- Alignment of reporting with corporate strategy
- sustainability across the value chain
- Stakeholder engagement and expectation management
- Greenwashing risk and regulatory scrutiny
- Action planning and next steps
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Summary and Close
- Key takeaways
- Q&A
- Feedback and close
- Public Sector : £525 +VAT
- Private Sector : £595+VAT
- Voluntary Sector : £460+VAT
