Course description
Environmental Sustainability 101
Companies that assess, manage, and communicate their environmental performance reduce risk, identify cost savings, and improve efficiency and business continuity. They also mitigate negative impacts on local communities and the planet. Today’s businesses can positively differentiate themselves by developing commitments to manage natural resources that make business and environmental sense. This course provides an overview of concepts, tools, and resources that can get you started.
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Who should attend?
This course is designed for professionals with corporate citizenship responsibilities who wish to develop a solid foundation of knowledge in a sustainability space or who want to refresh their knowledge. This course is also helpful for individuals from other functional areas such as public and government affairs, public relations, marketing and communications who have direct contact with key company stakeholders and/or who work closely with their company's community involvement function (e.g. public and government affairs, sustainability, corporate responsibility, public relations, marketing and communications).
Training content
- What sustainability means for companies of all sizes and industries.
- The principles and leading practices of natural resource management.
- The regulatory and societal expectations of companies’ sustainability programs.
- The global, national, and regional agreements, actions, and frameworks for sustainability measurement and reporting and how can they be implemented.
- How to set data-driven and science-based environmental targets.
- The trends that are shaping environmental sustainability including natural capital, biomimicry, and resiliency.
Costs
- Member: $2,130.00
- Non-Member: $2,900.00
Certification / Credits
5 certificate units toward a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Practice. This is an elective course for a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Practice.
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Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
At the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, we help companies advance and elevate their corporate citizenship to deliver both business and social value, no matter where they are in their corporate citizenship journey. As the leading corporate citizenship membership...