About the Academy
The SSE Academy is the UN SSE’s education arm focused on the provision of award-winning, globally consistent and pragmatic training for market participants on the adoption and implementation of sustainable finance practices. Together with its education partners, the SSE Academy develops certified training programs made available to capital market participants free of charge with the objective of supporting the education and training needs of stock exchanges. By partnering with topic experts and specialists, the SSE Academy’s mission is to support stock exchanges in their efforts to bring their markets up-to-date with pragmatic educational resources on key sustainability-related issues. Every SSE Academy’s training programs can be found on the SSE Academy events page.
"The UN SSE initiative continues to deliver one of the largest global education programmes on climate risk disclosures, convening organisations and stock exchanges to build knowledge in both established and emerging markets."
– Judges, Finance for the Future Awards 2023
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Leveraging exchange networks
Stock exchanges have an important convening power connecting entire capital market ecosystems. Exchanges have their finger on the pulse of local market knowledge and capacity-building demands, but do not always have the resources or expertise to facilitate training on topics that are quickly evolving. To support stock exchange’s education and training on sustainability-related efforts, the SSE Academy provides the expertise and training facilitation for exchanges who wish to host training for their market participants. By supporting their education and training activities, the SSE looks to overcome critical barriers exchanges face and increase the number of exchanges providing sustainability-related training for their markets. The SSE Academy’s activities provide education and training that are:
- High quality, providing global markets with access to top experts on key sustainability topics
- Global, partnering with the SSE’s worldwide network of exchanges to rapidly disseminate internationally consistent knowledge
- Customized, locally adapted education to fit with the unique regulatory and business context of each market
- Interactive, addressing the unique questions of participants to overcome barriers to advancement
- Accessible, disseminated as a public service, at no cost to the participant
The SSE is continually working with its stock exchange members to identify new topics for training modules. The training currently or previously offered through the SSE Academy can be found below. All the SSE Academy’s training is provided free of cost to both stock exchange members and to participants of the training. Funding for training is provided through donors.
The SSE depends on donor funding and voluntary contributions to ensure that its members can have access to high quality, expert-led training on important sustainability-related topics. If your organization would like to discuss funding or partnership opportunities with the SSE, please get in touch through the contact details at the bottom of the webpage.
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