WORKSHOPS

- Register and complete the payment through the official training website.

- Upon successful registration, an invitation email—including the access link, workshop resources, and Pre- & Post-Assessment links—will be sent one day before the workshop.

This workshop examines how ESG-related financial products, including green bonds,

carbon credits, renewable-energy financing, sustainability-linked loans, conservation

funds and climate-aid programs, are increasingly exposed to money-laundering

abuse. As global markets shift toward sustainability and climate finance, criminals

exploit weak verification systems, regulatory gaps and the high-trust nature of

ESG frameworks to legitimize illicit proceeds. The workshop highlights FATF concerns

related to innovative financial products, the overlap between ESG governance

and AML controls, systemic vulnerabilities in climate-finance ecosystems, and the

victimology dimension, where communities, environmental funds and developing

regions face exploitation and financial harm. Real international and regional case

studies illustrate practical typologies and red flags.

• Compliance officers

• ESG & sustainability teams

• Risk management departments

• Relationship Managers handling ESG-linked clients

• Banks & financial institutions issuing or investing in ESG products

• Auditors, consultants & regulators

• Corporate governance, sustainability reporting & impact assessment teams

• Law enforcement agencies & government authorities

Certificate of participation issued by the UASA & SCA Professional Training & Examinations Centre.

15:00 - 16:20 Session 1

16:20 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:50 Session 2

17:50 - 18:00 Break

18:00 - 19:00 Session 3

Abuse of ESG Products, Projects & Climate-Finance Mechanisms

• How ESG products and climate-finance initiatives can be exploited through hightrust

environments.

• Weak verification and oversight across green bonds, carbon credits, sustainability-

linked loans, impact funds,

renewable-energy financing, conservation funding, climate-aid flows and many more.

• Vulnerability of developing markets, indigenous communities and climate-finance

ecosystems (“victim sectors”).

• Fraud schemes: fabricated environmental projects, manipulated sustainability KPIs,

inflated or falsified impact metrics,

double counting in carbon markets, and shell-company structures in ESG supply chains.

• Using ESG narratives and environmental/social benefit claims to disguise illicit proceeds.

FATF concerns on new products

• FATF warnings on innovative ESG financial instruments lacking mature control frameworks.

• ESG and climate-finance products identified as high-vulnerability channels due to

rapid expansion, opacity and limited regulatory oversight.

• Cross-border flows exploited by corruption networks, trafficking groups, environmental

crime, tax-evasion structures and transnational laundering schemes.

• Victimology dimension: diversion of climate and environmental funds harming communities,

ecosystems and public trust.

• Regulatory expectations: transparency, traceability, robust audits, third-party verification

and enhanced due-diligence controls.

ESG + AML overlap

• How ESG governance and reporting frameworks intersect with AML obligations.

• Integrating controls within ESG financing, investment due diligence and sustainability

reporting.

• Greenwashing & impact-washing as methods to sanitize illicit funds under the cover

of “positive impact.”

• Key exposure points

• Governance duties of boards, ESG committees and sustainability officers to prevent

abuse and protect vulnerable groups.

Case Studies & group work