Certified ESRS (CSRD) Sustainability Reporting Course

All 12. The course covers ESRS 1 (General Requirements) and ESRS 2 (General Disclosures) — the cross-cutting standards that apply to everyone — plus all topical standards:

• Environmental (5): E1 Climate · E2 Pollution · E3 Water and Marine · E4 Biodiversity · E5 Resource Use and Circular Economy.
• Social (4): S1 Own Workforce · S2 Workers in the Value Chain · S3 Affected Communities · S4 Consumers and End-Users.
• Governance (1): G1 Business Conduct.

Delivered across 14 modules / 290 lessons (24 CPD hours / 32 academic hours), with 13 graded module assessments. Your applied draft work in the Studio focuses on the standards most material to your sector — based on the Learning Profile you build during onboarding.

Yes. The course content is reviewed on a rolling basis and incorporates the latest CSRD legislative updates, EFRAG technical guidance and ESRS Q&A releases.

Last full content refresh: May 2026. Where standards change between refresh cycles, the Studio's expert support desk and the Mistake Coach surface the relevant updates in the affected modules.

No. The course starts from CSRD fundamentals — what reporting under the directive actually requires — and builds toward applied disclosure work. Module 01 (Foundations) and Module 02 set the regulatory and conceptual frame before any standard-by-standard work begins.

Practitioners with existing ESRS familiarity can move quickly through the early modules and spend their time on draft work in the Studio. The AI Tutor adapts depth and pace to the experience level you set in your Learning Profile.

in progress The full deliverables list is being finalised for the May 2026 refresh and will be published here shortly. Indicatively, the course package includes a materiality assessment template, a double-materiality scoring matrix, disclosure-requirement checklists for every ESRS, worked disclosures from real CSRD reports across multiple sectors, and a data-point mapping spreadsheet.

For an up-to-date list of what's in your enrolment, email lra@reporting.academy — we'll send the current package contents.

On Guided Flex, most learners reach report-leading capability over 8–12 weeks of focused study at roughly 4–6 hours per week. The course is 24 CPD / 32 academic hours of material, but applied draft work takes the additional time.

On 1:1 Expert Mentorship, the same depth is typically reached faster because mentor sessions accelerate the applied work on your own draft, against your own organisation's data and reporting context.

Dr. Ross Kurinko or a senior LRA mentor, subject to mentor availability. The mentor kickoff session (a separate scheduled call before regular sessions begin) captures your reporting context and is used to assign the best-fit mentor for your route.

Your mentor engagement starts and finishes within six months of purchase. Studio access continues for the full 12-month term in parallel.

Yes — as a bundle-only add-on at +£350 + VAT. The GRI Standards Certified Training is delivered by a GRI Certified Global Trainer using official GRI materials and is available only when added to this ESRS course at enrolment (standalone prices are £700 online / £1,200 on-site). Use the bundle cards in the Fees section to enrol with the bundle already applied.

After completing the GRI training, you receive a separate certificate issued by GRI (not by LRA) — a valuable CV addition and one step on the GRI Certified Sustainability Professional pathway.

Yes — the LRA Alumni Club. When you complete this course on an engaged format (Live Cohort, 1:1 Expert Mentorship, Applied Practice or Deep Review — including the mentor-only California, Middle East and U.S. routes) you become a member of the LRA Alumni Club for life — no expiry from the day you graduate. See the full Alumni Club section on the Full Stack programme page.

What's inside the Club: 30% off any future LRA course in any format (including the 5 new courses launching by end of 2026 and every LRA course after that); the annual LRA Alumni Summit (London + online); quarterly peer benchmarking calls with Dr. Kurinko under NDA; monthly office hours; an alumni-only Slack channel; early access to new courses and a vote on what we cover next; member-only briefings on emerging regulations; and the LRA job board / talent network.

Guided Flex doesn't unlock the Club — that's deliberate. The Club is reserved for learners who chose an engaged format (live time, mentorship or applied work).

1:1 Expert Mentorship — Applied Practice is an upgrade of the 1:1 Expert Mentorship route. It adds a consulting layer on your real working documents — materiality matrix or double materiality assessment, risk register, draft CSRD disclosures (E1/E2/E5/S1), stakeholder engagement plan, disclosure gap analysis, KPI catalogue. Mentor + practitioner-consultant in one engagement.

This work happens outside the Studio platform — via email, file-share and Zoom under explicit NDA. The Studio learning environment stays standard (same content, same AI Tutor); your documents are not uploaded to the platform — we work them as files. Across 10 × 1.5h sessions, the mentor reviews your documents before each call and works with you on improvements during. You receive a revised materiality matrix, an updated risk register and sharper draft disclosures on the way out.

Choose Applied Practice if you are leading an active reporting cycle right now and want senior-practitioner judgement applied to your real materials — not just the standard.

Take the Full Stack programme if this is your first reporting cycle — your company is doing CSRD, climate or sustainability reporting for the first time. Even if ESRS looks like a "narrow" framework on paper, a first-time reporter needs more mentor time, broader context and the full reporter foundation. A single standalone course will leave gaps you'll only spot under deadline.

Also take Full Stack if you're new to sustainability reporting in general, or you're tackling a multi-framework programme (EU + global + jurisdictional) and want one enrolment that holds it all together — with four certificates and read-mode access to the Assurance and Materiality Assessment courses.

Take this standalone course if you've already delivered at least one reporting cycle and now want to upgrade specifically to ESRS / CSRD. You know the territory — you just want the focused practitioner mentorship on this specific standard.

Or take this standalone course if you have a functional background (finance, audit, risk, strategy, IR) and want to layer this reporting profile on top of it — e.g. a finance, audit or strategy professional needing to own the ESRS / CSRD disclosure for your company. Your functional anchor gives you the structure a standalone course assumes.

Working on climate-related financial disclosures too? Pair this with the Certified IFRS S1 / S2 Sustainability-Related Financial Disclosures course for the global investor-facing framework that sits alongside ESRS.

Full Stack starts higher (from £999 Guided Flex, up to £3,495 Deep Review) than this standalone course (from £499 Guided Flex, up to £2,995 Applied Practice) but includes four certificates — Full Stack diploma + ESRS + IFRS S1/S2 + official GRI Standards Certified — plus read-mode access to the Assurance and Materiality Assessment courses. See the Full Stack programme page for the full picture. Either way, completing on a Live Cohort, 1:1, Applied Practice or Deep Review route makes you a member of the LRA Alumni Club — 30% off any future LRA course — for life (Guided Flex routes don't unlock Club membership).

Yes — there are three ways in.

1 · Through your employer (apprenticeship-led). If your team genuinely needs ESG reporting capability — a finance or sustainability function, a listed or private company, or a consultancy — ask your employer to:

1. Search ST0934 (Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Practitioner) on the GOV.UK Find apprenticeship training service.
2. Shortlist 3–5 approved training providers.
3. Ask each: "Can you deliver ST0934 with a specialist ESG Disclosure / Sustainability Reporting pathway, using London Reporting Academy as a delivery partner?"

The provider gets in touch with us and enrols you — they handle the apprenticeship administration and all programme logistics, and London Reporting Academy delivers the specialist teaching.

2 · Apprenticeship funding & an official Level 4 pathway (employer-led). If your organisation already wants to use apprenticeship funding and the official Level 4 standard, we work with approved apprenticeship providers as a specialist ESG Disclosure delivery partner — get in touch and we'll connect you.

3 · Direct / self-funded. Individuals and companies who'd rather train directly, without apprenticeship funding, can start straight away — the routes and pricing above apply.