This guide explores ways to get started in and transition into sustainable finance careers. It focuses on how professionals can build foundational knowledge, apply transferable skills, and take opportunities to create impact. Through expert insights it highlights strategies to navigate evolving roles and align finance with real sustainability outcomes.

The Modern Slavery Goals and Actions Bank helps finance professionals design and oversee credible approaches to identifying, preventing, and addressing modern slavery risks. It provides structured goals, practical actions, and resources to strengthen governance, transparency, accountability, and human rights due diligence across operations, supply chains, and investment decision-making.

Guidance from UNEP FI and the Equator Principles on integrating project-related finance into nature-based risk assessments. It outlines frameworks, governance and disclosure expectations to help financial institutions identify, assess and manage biodiversity, water and pollution-related risks at project and portfolio levels.

This McKinsey Global Institute report assesses current and projected costs of adapting to heat, drought, flooding and wildfires under a 2°C warming scenario. It estimates $190 billion is spent annually today, rising to $1.2 trillion by 2050 for developed-economy protection standards, with benefits outweighing costs.

Future Energy Scenarios 2025 provides independent pathways for Great Britain’s energy system to reach net zero by 2050. It models demand, supply, flexibility and emissions across electricity, gas and hydrogen, assessing costs, infrastructure needs, carbon budgets and policy choices under varying levels of electrification, hydrogen deployment and consumer engagement.

Equator Principles is a global risk management framework for financial institutions to identify, assess and manage environmental and social risks when financing large projects. It sets baseline standards for responsible project finance and supports sustainable investment decisions across industries, helping lenders integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk criteria.

National Energy System Operator (NESO) is Great Britain’s public energy system operator and strategic planner, balancing electricity and gas networks to ensure reliable, affordable power while supporting the UK’s transition to net zero. NESO integrates system operations, planning and innovation with stakeholders to enable clean energy growth and security of supply.

National Energy System Operator (NESO) is Great Britain’s public energy system operator and planner, balancing electricity supply and demand and coordinating electricity and gas network planning to ensure secure, affordable power. NESO supports clean energy transition, net zero targets and strategic infrastructure development while engaging industry and government partners.

Accenture is a global professional services and technology consulting firm helping organisations with strategy, digital transformation, cloud, AI, operations and industry-specific solutions. Headquartered in Dublin, it serves clients worldwide, driving innovation and growth across sectors with expert consulting and technology services.