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Climate Change, Sustainability and ESG Literacy Pathway

Starts 4th November 2026

The pathway combines both courses into one structured learning journey. Participants first complete Climate Change Literacy, followed by Sustainability & ESG Literacy.

The two courses are delivered sequentially, not at the same time. This gives participants the opportunity to build their climate knowledge first before moving into sustainability and ESG.

In this pathway, learning will be reinforced using fhionQ's learning tools.

Course Content

Phase 1: Climate Change Literacy

Week 1: Foundations of Climate Change
  1. Weather vs climate
  2. The greenhouse effect
  3. Greenhouse gases
  4. Anthropogenic drivers of climate change
Week 2: Impacts of Climate Change
  1. The current state of climate change
  2. Natural climate variability (El Niño and La Niña)
  3. Sectoral impacts of climate change
  4. Attribution science
Week 3: Responding to Climate Change
  1. Climate mitigation
  2. Climate adaptation
  3. Net zero and the bathtub analogy
  4. Climate justice
Week 4: Sources of Energy
  1. Fossil fuels
  2. Renewable energy
  3. Other sources of energy
  4. The global energy mix
Week 5: Climate Governance & Global Action
  1. Global climate institutions: IPCC, UNFCCC
  2. The Kyoto Protocol
  3. The Paris Agreement
  4. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
  5. Conference of the Parties (COP)
  6. National and county climate plans
Week 6: The Energy Transition
  1. Decarbonisation
  2. Electrification and energy efficiency
  3. Drivers of the energy transition
  4. Just transition
Christmas break (2 weeks)
Week 7: Climate Policy Instruments
  1. Market-based instruments
  2. Command-and-control regulations
  3. Information-based instruments
Week 8: Climate Risks
  1. Physical climate risks
  2. Transition climate risks
  3. Cascading climate risks (the domino effect)
  4. Compounding climate risks (double "whammy")
  5. Group activity: Identify, trace and assess climate risks and their financial impacts through Ternan.
Week 9: Climate Opportunities
  1. The five broad areas of climate-related opportunities identified by the TCFD
  2. Group activity: Identify and explore climate opportunities in real-world business scenarios through Dawson.
Week 10: The Catastrophe Framework
  1. The climate risk equation
  2. Group activity: Apply the catastrophe framework to real-world scenarios through Harcourt.
Week 11: Climate Scenarios
  1. Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs)
  2. Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs)
  3. RCPs + SSPs
  4. Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) climate scenarios
Week 12: Carbon Markets I
  1. Compliance vs voluntary markets
  2. Types of carbon projects
  3. Carbon market standards
  4. Assessing the quality of carbon credits
Week 13: Carbon Markets II
  1. Kenya’s carbon market regulations
  2. The carbon project lifecycle in Kenya
Week 14: Carbon Markets III
  1. Article 6: How the Paris Agreement enables international cooperation on climate action
  2. Article 6.2: Cooperative approaches and internationally transferred mitigation outcomes (ITMOs)
  3. Article 6.4: The UN-supervised mechanism for generating and trading emission reductions
  4. Article 6.8: Non-market approaches to international cooperation
Week 15: Climate Finance
  1. Climate change and financial risk
  2. Climate finance instruments
  3. Sources of climate finance

Phase 2: Sustainability & ESG Literacy

Week 16: Foundations of Sustainability
  1. History of sustainability
  2. Sustainable development
  3. CSR vs sustainability vs ESG
  4. The business case for sustainability
Week 17: ESG Fundamentals
  1. An introduction to the ESG pillars
  2. Environmental issues
  3. Social issues
  4. Governance issues
Week 18: Stakeholders
  1. Internal and external stakeholders
  2. Stakeholder interests and expectations
  3. Stakeholder engagement
Week 18: Materiality
  1. Financial materiality
  2. Impact materiality
  3. Double materiality
  4. Materiality assessment
Week 19: The Global ESG Reporting Landscape
  1. The evolution of sustainability reporting
  2. Global reporting standards
Week 19: ESG Regulations in Kenya
  1. The Kenya Green Finance Taxonomy
  2. ICPAK sustainability reporting guidance
  3. IRA ESG Toolkit
  4. Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) ESG Guidance Manual
Week 20: The GRI Standards
  1. GRI Universal Standards
  2. GRI Sector Standards
  3. GRI Topic Standards
  4. GRI material topics
Week 21: IFRS S1: General Requirements I
  1. Sustainability-related risks
  2. Sustainability-related opportunities
  3. Group activity: Identify, trace and assess climate risks and their financial impacts through Ternan, and identify and explore climate opportunities in real-world business scenarios through Dawson.
Break (1 week)
Week 22: IFRS S1: General Requirements II
  1. Governance
  2. Strategy
  3. Risk management
  4. Metrics and targets
Week 23: IFRS S2: Climate-Related Disclosures I
  1. Climate-related risks
  2. Climate-related opportunities
Week 24: IFRS S2: Climate-Related Disclosures II
  1. Governance
  2. Strategy
  3. Risk management
  4. Metrics and targets
  5. Scenario analysis
Week 25: ESG Risk Management
  1. Identifying ESG risks
  2. Assessing ESG risks
  3. ESG risk mitigation
  4. ESG and enterprise risk management
  5. ESG risks across the value chain
Week 26: Circular Economy
  1. Linear vs circular economy
  2. Circular economy principles
  3. Resource efficiency
  4. Waste hierarchy
  5. Circular business models
  6. Life-cycle thinking
Week 27: Carbon Accounting I
  1. GHG Protocol
  2. Global warming potentials
  3. Organisational and operational boundaries
  4. Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions
Week 28: Carbon Accounting II
  1. Scope 3 emissions
  2. Setting decarbonisation targets
Week 29: Sustainable Finance & Insurance
  1. Sustainable finance
  2. Sustainable insurance
Week 30: ESG Data & Technology
  1. ESG data sources & management
  2. ESG software & technology

Course details

Starts
4th November 2026
Ends
7th July 2027 (tentative)
Duration
30 weeks (~8 months)
Schedule
Online, Wednesdays | 7:30–9:30 PM EAT (GMT+3)
Fee for Kenyans
KES 95,000 (introductory offer for cohort 1)
Fee for non-Kenyans
USD 950 (introductory offer for cohort 1)
Class size
Maximum 30 participants

You save KES 10,000 / USD 100 when you enrol for both courses as a pathway.

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Please note:

  1. This pathway is designed for people who are completely new to the field. You do not need to be a climate scientist, ESG specialist or sustainability professional to participate.
  2. While fhionQ operates in Africa, this pathway is open to anyone, anywhere in the world. Some of the regulations covered are Kenyan, but the concepts span the global landscape.
  3. To keep classes small and interactive, this pathway is limited to 30 participants per cohort. Places are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
  4. Some concepts are reinforced through fhionQ's learning tools and games, including scenarios that allow participants to explore climate risks, climate opportunities, catastrophe frameworks and climate scenarios.
  5. There will be a two-week Christmas break during the pathway: 18th December 2026 – 5th January 2027. Classes resume on 6th January 2027.
  6. The fee indicated applies to the first cohort only.
  7. Participants can pay their pathway fee in two installments. The first installment is due by 30th October 2026 at midnight, and the second installment by 29th November 2026 at midnight.
  8. A certificate will be presented at the end of each course in the pathway.
  9. If you would like to enquire more about this pathway, please email shel@fhionq.com with the subject line “Climate Change, Sustainability and ESG Literacy Pathway - Enquiry”. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
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