This program is now retired. Stay tuned for other training opportunities to be announced in the future.
Global Environmental, Social and Governance expectations are evolving fast, compelling firms to develop new capabilities to address the needs for environmental sustainability and social accountability. Given the immense growth of global and regional trade, firms large and small are ideally situated to lead the way for a low-carbon world economy.
The broad objective of the Certification program is to equip you with cutting edge sustainability skills that firms need to thrive in a global Green Economy. The Certification program will explore how firms can leverage sustainability strategies to not only enhance their environmental performance but also their economic performance.
- Corporate Responsibility Overview: What is sustainability, sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, governance, ethics, and business stratgies related to CSR
- Making a Business Case for Investing in Corporate Responsibility/Sustainability: Link between sustainability and firm performance, importance of compliance, sustainable investing, and bottom of the pyramid strategies
- Corporate Responsibility & Global Climate Change Issues: Global concerns, global public policy Initiatives, global bio-geochemical cycles
- Corporate Responsibility Strategies for Mitigating Climate Change: Climate change mitigation strategies for various industrial sectors, global carbon markets, global cap and trade schemes
- Corporate Responsibility for Biodiversity & Water Management: Strategies for conserving and leveraging biodiversity for competitive advantage
- Corporate Responsibility for Valuation of Ecosystem Services: How firms can internalize global environmental externalities, global practices in payment for ecosystem services, economic approaches to valuation of ecosystem services
- Sustainability Risk Assessment Strategy: Understanding enterprise risk management process, sustainability risk, and enterprise sustainability risk assessment
- Sustainability Investment Decision Making Strategies: Challenges of sustainability investments, types of sustainability capital investments, sustainability investment process and methods
- Green Firm-Specific Advantages for Driving Sustainable Competitive Advantage: Managing global environmental uncertainty, cradle to cradle strategies, closed loop production systems, recycling and upcycling
- Assessing Organizational Sustainability/Audit: Benefits of sustainability assessments, key steps for conducting sustainability assessments, benchmark areas for sustainability assessments
- Environmental Compliance Strategies: Role of EPA, environmental regulations such as Clear Air Act and Clean Water Act, strategies for enhancing compliance
- Global Sustainability Reporting Frameworks: Global reporting initiative reporting framework, OECD guidelines, UN Global Compact, Carbon Disclosure Project
- Sustainability Managers
- Sustainability Analysts
- Governmental and International Bodies
- MBA and Master programs with CSR focus
- CSR & EHS Professionals
- Compliance Professionals
- Governance Professionals
- This Certification has no prerequisites, and does not utilize a textbook.
- You will need a computer capable of playing videos in the .mp4 format and headphones or speakers.
- You will require a high-speed internet connection and a modern, updated web-browser, and a PDF reader.
- Students have 3 months from the date of enrollment to complete the certification.