Training Topic: Sustainability in Finance
Participants: FCT Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS)
The session focused on how sustainability considerations affected financial decision-making, public sector resource management, and institutional reporting, especially as ESG expectations continued to shape governance, risk, and accountability.
Key areas I covered included:
What sustainability in finance meant in practical terms (beyond theory and buzzwords)
How ESG factors influenced financial risk, planning, and performance management
Sustainability-linked reporting and the growing expectations around disclosures
Integrating sustainability into budgeting, project evaluation, and decision processes
Governance and controls needed to support credible sustainability commitments
The training helped participants develop clearer understanding of sustainability’s financial implications and how to apply the concepts in a way that strengthened accountability, transparency, and smarter decision-making.
