Carbon Management for Corporate Sustainability : The Key Skill for Leaders
About This Course
This course will enable participants to:
• Design sustainability frameworks in the organization to appreciate the evolution of carbon credit industry pertaining to the rationale, growth, prospects and challenges
• Assess the dynamics of the compliance and voluntary carbon markets with focus on the ecosystem of stakeholders such as buyers, developers, registries and verifiers
• Embed carbon factors into the overall strategic planning process of organizations, including materiality assessments, climate risk scenario planning and nature impact evaluation
• Formulate and implement action strategies for carbon management in alignment with existing and new regulations, standards and taxonomies
• Steer and execute the transition pathways for corporate decarbonization along globally-accepted processes and trajectories
• Assess entities and projects for carbon offsetting, particularly for financings and investments
What You'll Learn
In an era where sustainability is no longer a choice, effective management of greenhouse gas emissions is crucial for mitigating global warming and achieving corporate sustainability goals. By now, many leaders and managers understand that carbon management needs to be integral to their strategy, and need to learn how to integrate carbon management into their corporate strategies from the outset.
Through this course, you will learn to manage the initiation and transition of carbon initiatives throughout the organization using materiality assessments of different environmental sustainability initiatives, climate risk scenario planning and nature impact evaluation on different environmental sustainability policies. You will gain an overview of the carbon credit industry and understand the dynamics of both compliance and voluntary carbon markets to be able to develop applications and insights into carbon management.
You will learn where possible opportunities lie through integrating of carbon management strategies into corporate strategies to be an advocate for environmental sustainability in the organization. As a leader you will also know how to leverage carbon markets to finance projects and to maintain a competitive advantage by being able to evaluate social and environmental impacts of your investment decisions using frameworks and standards used for measuring and reporting on environmental impact e.g. IFRS Sustainability-related Disclosures Standard, Greenhouse Gas Protocol etc.
Entry Requirements
General Diploma