BBP Real Estate ESG Focus Session: Sustainable Property Finance
Optimising The Benefits For Lenders & Borrowers By Integrating Sustainability Into Property Finance
Implement robust, innovative and purposeful approaches to ESG risk mitigation and improved sustainability outcomes through real estate debt strategies
This Focus Session has been designed especially for real estate professionals working in either a lending or borrowing context, including fund managers and investment institutions, banks, developers and Real Estate Investment Trusts and private property companies. It explores trends in sustainable finance markets, labelling of debt products as Green, Social, Sustainability, Sustainability-linked (GSSS) or Transition, how debt products can fit within responsible, sustainable or impact investment strategies, emerging regulation relevant to ESG in the debt markets, and key considerations when integrating ESG considerations into the lending or borrowing process.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course, participants will have:
- Have general awareness of the capital market trends relating to sustainable finance.
- Have greater awareness of how debt products can fit within the ESG investment spectrum and the ability to cite and explain examples of recent sustainable finance precedents and innovations
- Have a better understanding of labelling in debt products
- Be able to explain key industry driven sustainable finance standards and frameworks
- Know about current and emerging regulation impacting upon sustainable lending and borrowing
- Have an understanding of the “use of proceeds” concept and topics and issues to which it can be applied
- Have an understanding of the relationship between ESG issues, credit assessment and the lending process
- Be able to articulate the core components of corporate and house level sustainable finance frameworks
Participant Journey
All Focus Sessions have been designed as supplementary to the BBP ESG for Real Estate Professionals Course, and are open and available to those who have completed the core programme.
Those who would like to register for this focus session without completing the Core Programme first, should complete the Self-Assessment Quiz to ensure they possess sufficient existing knowledge of ESG in a Real Estate context.
This Focus Session consists of 2 hours of live teaching and a small amount of pre-course learning.
Participants will join fellow professionals from peer organisations in groups of up to 20.
Course Dates and Registration
Please note that the course has been developed to fulfil a particular industry skills development need and is intended for the audience set out above. The BBP and Hillbreak reserve the right to reject booking requests from individuals that do not fall into eligible categories.
Expressions of Interest & Queries
If you wish to submit an Expression of Interest for the course without proceeding directly to registration, please complete the form below. You will be added to our database of interested parties to whom announcements on future course dates and registration openings will be confirmed ahead of the wider market.
If you have any queries regarding the training, please contact us at BBPcourse@hillbreak.com and we’ll respond as soon as we can.
Some booking terms
Full terms and conditions of registration are provided at the point of booking.
If you wish to cancel your place on the course you may do so by providing us with notice by email to BBPcourse@hillbreak.com or telephone to 0333 5050 606 at any time up until 30 days prior to the date of your live session and the BBP will provide a full refund of the course fees paid or (if you so request) use all reasonable efforts to transfer your booking to an alternative course date in the future.
If you wish to cancel or withdraw from the course at any time after 30 days prior to the date of your first course module, you shall not be entitled to any refund of course fees paid and /or will still be liable for any outstanding fees to be paid. However, if you provide us with notice 10 working days or more prior to the date of your first course module, we will use all reasonable efforts to transfer your booking to an alternative course date in the future.
