Investor Relations & ESG Disclosure
Bring consistent, assured ESG data into your equity story, ratings, results calls and IR website, and handle corrections and crises with credibility.
- Last updated 12 Nov 2026
- English
- Intermediate
- 6 CPD hours
What you’ll learn
- Explain how ESG information fits within listed-company disclosure rules on timing, fairness and accuracy
- Build an ESG pillar for the equity story that links material topics to value drivers with quantified evidence
- Manage ratings, questionnaires and stewardship engagement from a single library of approved data
- Prepare ESG answers for results calls and reconcile sustainability data with the financial statements
- Use assured figures correctly and keep investor materials aligned with the system of record, including the Phi-to-IR connection
- Handle restatements and ESG crises with transparent, fair communication
Course content
6 sections · 26 lessons · 5h 20m total length
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What investor relations is for
Investor relations (IR) is the function that manages the flow of information between a company and the capital markets: shareholders, potential investors, sell-side analysts, bondholders, lenders and, increasingly, ESG rating agencies. Its purpose is not to promote the share price. Its purpose is to make sure the market can value the company fairly, on the basis of accurate, timely and consistent information that is available to everyone at the same time.
A well-run IR function lowers the cost of capital in a quiet way. Investors who understand a business, trust its numbers and can predict how management will communicate demand a smaller risk premium. Investors who are surprised, who find two different numbers for the same fact, or who learn bad news from the press demand a larger one.
The core jobs of IR
- Disclosure management: preparing and releasing results, annual reports, material announcements and presentations, in line with exchange and regulator rules.
- The equity story: a clear, evidence-based explanation of how the company creates value, what its strategy is and why it is credible.
- Market engagement: earnings calls, roadshows, conferences, one-to-one meetings, site visits and answering inbound questions.
- Market intelligence: knowing who owns the shares, how analysts model the company, and what investors are worried about, then feeding that back to the board and management.
- Stewardship of the record: keeping the IR website, historical data and presentations accurate and consistent over time.
Why ESG has moved into IR
Ten or fifteen years ago, sustainability was often handled by a CSR or communications team and published in a glossy report that few investors read. That has changed for three reasons. First, many institutional investors now integrate environmental, social and governance factors into their valuation and voting decisions, and they direct those questions to IR. Second, regulators and exchanges in the regions this course covers increasingly require or recommend ESG disclosure from listed companies; for example, Egypt's Financial Regulatory Authority requires ESG disclosure from listed companies, and Gulf exchanges publish ESG guides. Third, frameworks such as ISSB (IFRS S1 and S2) are explicitly designed for investors and sit alongside the financial statements.
The practical consequence is that the IR officer can no longer say "please ask the sustainability team". An investor who asks about Scope 1 emissions on an earnings call expects the same quality of answer as one who asks about the gross margin.
A short vignette
A mid-sized listed building-materials company in the region published its first sustainability report with a Scope 1 figure. Three months later, its investor presentation quoted a different number taken from an earlier draft. An analyst noticed the difference and asked which one was correct. The answer was simple (the presentation was outdated), but the question cost the company credibility at its next roadshow. The lesson: ESG numbers need the same version control as financial numbers.
What this course covers
This course follows the life of an ESG fact from the moment it is approved internally to the moment it appears in front of an investor: disclosure obligations, the ESG equity story, ratings and questionnaires, earnings calls, consistency between financial and sustainability data, assured figures, the digital IR website and crisis communication. Along the way it shows how Corprise's two platforms work together: Phi, the ESG reporting platform where data is collected and approved, and the Corprise IR platform at ir.corprise.ai, where approved figures reach investor disclosures.
Key takeaway
IR is the guardian of one consistent version of the truth about the company. ESG data is now part of that truth, and it deserves the same discipline.
· Article Preview 14:00 - Disclosure obligations of listed companies · Article 15:00
- Who asks about ESG, and why · Article 14:00
- The ESG disclosure landscape an issuer must navigate · Article 15:00
- Knowledge check · Quiz 04:00
- From materiality to the equity story · Article 14:00
- Linking ESG to value drivers: worked examples · Article 16:00
- Targets and credibility · Article 15:00
- Avoiding greenwashing in investor communication · Article 14:00
- Knowledge check · Quiz 04:00
- How ESG ratings work · Article 14:00
- Managing investor and customer questionnaires · Article 14:00
- Engagement with stewardship teams and the AGM season · Article 14:00
- Sustainable finance instruments and the IR role · Article 15:00
- Knowledge check · Quiz 04:00
- ESG on earnings calls and in results materials · Article 15:00
- Consistency between financial and sustainability data · Article 15:00
- Assured ESG figures and the assurance statement · Article 14:00
- From Phi to IR: the approved-number pipeline · Article 14:00
- Knowledge check · Quiz 04:00
- The digital IR website and ESG hub · Article 14:00
- Corrections, restatements and version control · Article 14:00
- Crisis communication on ESG incidents · Article 15:00
- The IR–ESG operating model and annual calendar · Article 13:00
- Knowledge check · Quiz 04:00
- Final assessment · Quiz 12:00
Requirements
- Basic familiarity with listed-company reporting or investor relations
- A general understanding of ESG concepts such as Scopes 1, 2 and 3 is helpful but not required
Who this course is for
- Investor relations officers and managers at listed or soon-to-list companies
- CFOs, finance and treasury teams responsible for investor and lender communication
- Sustainability managers who supply ESG data to investors
- Company secretaries and communications professionals involved in disclosure
Description
Investors, lenders and rating agencies now ask about emissions, safety, governance and supply chains with the same rigour they apply to margins and cash flow. Investor relations teams are expected to answer, and to answer consistently across reports, presentations, questionnaires and the IR website.
This course explains the disclosure obligations of listed companies, how to build ESG into a credible equity story, how ratings and investor questionnaires work, how to handle ESG on earnings calls and how to keep financial and sustainability data consistent. It shows how assured, approved figures can flow from Corprise's ESG platform Phi to the Corprise IR platform, so the same number reaches every investor disclosure.
Examples come from companies in the Middle East, North Africa, Africa, southern Europe and Latin America. Worked calculations cover targets, intensities, financed emissions and sustainability-linked financing, and the final module covers corrections, restatements and crisis communication.
Your instructor
Sustainability, governance and investor-relations faculty at Corprise.ai
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Corprise Academy is the teaching team behind Phi and Corprise IR. Our courses are written from real reporting projects in Egypt, the Gulf, North Africa and Europe.
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Investor Relations & ESG Disclosure
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