SSE Academy

Education & Training
UN member States agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be accomplished by 2030. The following targets are directly addressed by this topic:
Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
Target 17.16:Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
About the Academy
The SSE Academy is the UN SSE’s education arm focused on the provision of 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 Goal
Stock 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 to enable joint training together with stock exchanges. 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 wit 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 Progress
The SSE tracks a number of sustainability activities that can help stock exchanges promote sustainable and transparent markets. This includes exchange’s training and educational activities. Since launching the SSE Academy, stock exchange’s training activities have increased substantially, now one of the main acitivities of stock exchanges contributing to creating sustainable and transparent markets.
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Training Programs

Gender Equality: addressing complexities in capital markets
Learning time: 4 hours live training (over two sessions)
Partners: IFC, UN Women, and guest speakers from Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Bloomberg, and Gap Square
Status: Ongoing
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ISSB: Applying the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards
Learning time: 3.5 hours live training + 30 minute exercise
Partners: IFC, IFRS Foundation
Status: Ongoing
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GRI: introductory and advanced training on impact reporting with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
Learning time: 4 hours live training (over two sessions)
Partners: GRI
Status: Ongoing
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TCFD for banks: from climate risks to opportunities
Learning time: 4 hours live training (over two sessions)
Partners: IFC, UNEP-FI, CDP
Status: Ongoing

TCFD: getting started and building experience on climate-related financial disclosures
Learning time: 4 hours live training (over two sessions)
Partners: IFC, CDP
Status: Completed
Additional educational tools

Miss a training? Check out our YouTube Chanel for recordings
Visit our YouTube channel to view some of our recorded training sessions.

Publications and guidance documents
Don’t miss our publications and guidance documents to further support your market’s capacity building requirements.
Contact us
The SSE Academy develops training materials that aim to support exchanges educational and training activities on sustainability-related markets. For more information or to inquire about training for your market, exchanges are encouraged to contact the SSE Academy team directly. If you are not an SSE Partner Exchange, please feel free to fill in the contact form to request training, which we will take into consideration. Click here to access the contact form to request training.
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Training partners
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