
Sustainability Reporting
Duration: 3 days
Introduction
This course trains professionals to plan and produce sustainability reports aligned with internationally recognized sustainability reporting standards and frameworks. You’ll practice materiality assessment techniques, stakeholder engagement planning, and ESG data workflows using original ACSGP materials. This is an independent training by American Certification Services – Global Program (ACSGP) and is not affiliated with any third-party standard setter.
Course Objectives
- Understand the structure and intent of leading sustainability reporting standards and frameworks (without reproducing proprietary text).
- Conduct defensible materiality assessments and document methods and outcomes.
- Plan stakeholder engagement and evidence trails to support disclosures.
- Design data collection controls for ESG metrics (carbon, energy, water, waste).
- Apply reporting principles (balance, comparability, accuracy, timeliness) to your context.
- Link the report to corporate strategy, risk, and compliance obligations.
- Visualize and communicate sustainability data for diverse audiences.
- Plan internal reviews and readiness checks for limited/reasonable assurance.
Learning Outcomes
- Create a sustainability report outline tailored to your organization.
- Complete a materiality assessment with criteria, scoring, and stakeholder inputs.
- Build an ESG data register and basic controls for traceability and auditability.
- Draft transparent disclosures and KPIs with sources and assumptions.
- Map report content to strategy and risk registers.
- Prepare a review checklist for third-party assurance readiness.
Assessment
45-minute MCQ + a practical mini-report pack (materiality matrix, data register, sample disclosures).
Certification
ACSGP Certificate of Completion: Sustainability Reporting
This independent ACSGP training references broadly used sustainability reporting concepts for educational purposes and does not confer a credential or affiliation from any third-party standard setter or regulator.