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// CER Academy

Executive and board programmes

Short, senior sessions on what climate and ESG requirements mean for oversight, accountability and decision-making, pitched at the level a board actually operates at rather than at technical method.

Discuss an executive session

// The requirement

Oversight you can evidence

Climate disclosure asks organisations to describe how the board oversees these matters. Answering that credibly requires directors who can interrogate what management brings them, not simply receive it.

That is a different capability from technical carbon accounting. It is about knowing which questions expose a weak position: how a figure was derived, what the assurance exposure is, whether a target has a costed pathway behind it, and where the organisation has published a commitment nobody owns.

These sessions are built around those questions, and are usually delivered privately so that the discussion can use the organisation’s own disclosures.

// Content

What a session covers

Typical scope

  • What the applicable reporting obligations require, and from when
  • Where the board sits in the accountability structure
  • Reading a climate disclosure critically
  • Climate and transition risk in the risk framework
  • What assurance will test, and the exposure that creates
  • Targets, pathways and the credibility of public commitments
  • Greenwashing and substantiation exposure

Format

  • Half-day or shorter, sized to a board or executive agenda
  • Delivered privately, in person or virtually
  • Built around your own disclosures where you wish
  • Discussion-led rather than lecture-led
  • Optional follow-up briefing note for the board pack

// Related programmes

Deeper programmes for the teams below the board

// Enquire

Discuss an executive session

Tell us who will be in the room and what the session needs to achieve. We will propose a scope and a format.

For example: Q1 2027, or a specific month.

Building capability further down the organisation too?

Executive sessions work best alongside technical training for the teams producing the underlying work.

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