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Module 1 Learning Outcomes
LO1: Understand real world impacts of physical changes including rising temperatures, disruption to weather patterns and carbon concentrations.
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LO2: Understand financial world consequences including insurance losses, asset valuations, stranded assets, new opportunities, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) effects, litigation against polluters and financial market participants.
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LO3: Know and understand the carbon cycle at a high level and the science linking global warming to human activity.
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LO4: Know and understand the disruptions caused by physical and transition risks to business operations, supply chains, agriculture, frequency of catastrophes, new technology and changing consumer behaviours.
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LO5: Understand real world impacts of transition including carbon pricing, stranded resources, technology advances, carbon capture and storage and reforestation.
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Module 2 Learning Outcomes
LO1: Examine the link between climate change and sustainability.
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LO2: Understand the primary UN objectives, initiatives and agencies involved with sustainability and finance.
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LO3: Examine the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), its reports, conclusions and limitations.
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LO4: Understand key areas of sustainability focus and how ESG standards, policies and metrics can be used by organisations and investors to assess the impact of their operations.
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LO5: Examine responses and actions of stakeholders globally, including governments, financial institutions, energy companies, other corporates and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
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Module 3 Learning Outcomes
LO1: Know and understand the roles, objectives and operation of the Taskforce on Climate Financial Disclosures and relevant current key initiatives in climate change and sustainability.
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LO2: Understand the evolving financial regulation with respect to climate change and sustainability to stakeholders to enable them to respond to emerging market practice.
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LO3: Generate a response to initiatives from national and supranational bodies for your organisation.
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Module 4 Learning Outcomes
LO1: Know and understand how the different development paradigms of neoliberalism and sustainable development have shaped the world since the late 20th century.
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LO2: Know the ecological economics and its goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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LO3: Understand the potential response of actuaries and organisations in transitioning to a net zero economy.
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Module 5 Learning Outcomes
LO1: Understand the key aspects of climate inequality which include changing and dynamic populations, changes in economic growth and the time delay effects of actions.
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LO2: Know how intergenerational and intragenerational conflicts impact people and how this changes their expectations of work and daily life.
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LO3: Know and understand the potential response of governments and organisations to changing demographics, population conflicts and ethical dilemmas that arise from inequality caused by climate change.
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Module 6 Learning Outcomes
LO1: Appraise climate change considerations and their interactions with an organisation’s current corporate strategy
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LO2: Use a risk management process to identify, assess and control an organisation’s response to climate change risks
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LO3: Analyse the differing needs and risk appetite of stakeholders in setting a climate change strategy.
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LO4: Assess opportunities for innovation in a company's transition to carbon neutral.
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Module 7 Learning Outcomes
LO1: Understand the main challenges of modelling the financial impact of climate change.
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LO2: Know and understand how to develop climate change scenarios, considering alignment with global aims and the model users.
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LO3: Examine how climate change models and data can be integrated into actuarial modelling, including justification of the methodology, model, assumptions used.
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Module 8 Learning Outcomes
LO1: Understand what a company is trying to achieve with climate change reporting/communication
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LO2: Discuss the challenges of climate-related disclosures on an organisation’s stakeholders.
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LO3: Assess the external factors, agencies and standards that are relevant to organisations with respect to their climate change reporting.
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Module 9 Learning Outcomes
LO1: Gain a better insight into the impact of sustainability on the different aspects of an actual company
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LO2: Show clear understanding of all previous modules and identify how they link into the work of an actuary
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Discuss appropriate Scenario Analysis & modelling
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