With Jose Hopkins
Four masterclasses · 12 hours · €800 for the first cohort — standard value €1000
Most sustainability training stops at the standard. This series follows the work all the way through: identifying the risks that matter, translating them into financial effects, proving the resulting numbers to an assurance provider, and governing the AI increasingly used to produce them.
Each masterclass stands on its own and can be booked individually. Taken together they form a single progression, delivered by one presenter with a consistent methodology, so the worked examples, evidence standards and terminology carry from one session to the next instead of starting over each time.
The series is designed for teams as much as individuals. Sustainability reporting fails at the handoffs — between sustainability and finance, between finance and audit — and those handoffs improve fastest when the people either side of them have sat through the same sessions.
1. ISSB / UK SRS in Practice: From Sustainability Risk to Financial Reporting — 3 hours. Identify the sustainability-related risks and opportunities that genuinely affect the business, and follow one through to its financial effects and the accounting assumptions it touches.
2. Climate Risk & Financial Reporting — 3 hours. Take physical and transition risk from the risk register into business impact, then into impairment, useful lives, provisions, going concern and estimates.
3. Sustainability Reporting & Assurance Readiness Clinic — 3 hours. Review sustainability information the way an assurance provider will: basis of preparation, evidence, assumptions, judgements, ownership and controls — before the assurance engagement begins.
4. AI & Sustainability: Who Owns the Evidence? — 3 hours. Use AI across sustainability research, analysis and drafting while keeping evidence traceability, human review, audit trail and accountability intact.
Recommended order: 1 → 2 → 3 → 4. Sessions one and two build the connection between sustainability risk and the financial statements; session three establishes the evidence standard those numbers have to meet; session four applies that standard to AI-assisted work.
| Date | Masterclass |
|---|---|
| Thursday 29 October 2026 | AI & Sustainability: Who Owns the Evidence? |
| Friday 30 October 2026 | ISSB / UK SRS in Practice |
| Thursday 5 November 2026 | Sustainability Reporting & Assurance Readiness Clinic |
| Friday 6 November 2026 | Climate Risk & Financial Reporting |
Four sessions across two weeks, timed for organisations moving into year-end reporting and planning. Booking the series secures a place in all four.
Participants will be able to:
The scarce skill in sustainability reporting is no longer framework knowledge — it is connectivity. Professionals who can carry a sustainability matter from risk assessment through to a defensible number in the financial statements, and evidence every step, are the ones organisations rely on when auditors, regulators and investors start asking harder questions. This series builds that chain end to end rather than one link at a time.