Introducing… Bloomberg Environmental Social Governance (ESG)

Those of you interested in working with ESG will want to check out Bloomberg’s latest e-learning package on the topic.  Access Bloomberg via the terminals in the SOM Library.

To start the course, if you haven’t already done so, you will first need to create a Bloomberg account.  Learn more about how to do this here.

Then, once logged onto a terminal, to access Bloomberg’s e-learning packages type BCER <Go>.  This command will take you to the Bloomberg certification page.

Bloomberg Certification (BCER) currently provides access to two e-learning courses. In order to access either of these you will need to sign up on this page. Signing up will create your e-learning login details which are separate from your Bloomberg terminal login.

The two certificated courses available are:

• BMC (Bloomberg Market Concepts) – which provides an introduction to the global economy and financial markets and is described more fully in our earlier blog post.
• ESG (Environmental Social Governance) – which provides learners with information on how to implement ESG strategies and prepare ESG reports for regulators.

The ESG course is made up of several modules :

• Introduction to ESG & Sustainable Finance
• Researching & Adopting ESG
• Negative Exclusionary Screening and Positive Screening
• ESG Integration-Fixed Income
• ESG Integration- Equities
• Corporate Governance & Shareholder Activism
• Reporting Sustainability Activities

Each module will take approx 1 hour to complete and, like the BMC,  on completion a digital certificate will be available to add to your CV.

If you are more interested in sources for researching ESG, have a look at our posts on ESG data in Workspace and ESG data in Bloomberg.

If you have any further questions about ESG or BCER, please do get in touch.