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Sustainability Manager Diploma.

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This course is for you who are responsible for sustainability or are moving into a leading sustainability role in business. The course gives you concrete knowledge, tools and methods for working with sustainability in companies in a structured way. We go through important sustainability frameworks, tools and legislation such as CSRD/ESRS, the GHG Protocol, circular business models, effective communication and the double materiality assessment. You will also learn how to act to mobilise the capacity for change and bring the organisation along in the sustainability work.

Format: On site
Language: Swedish
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About the course.

This course is for you who are responsible for sustainability or are moving into a leading sustainability role in business. The course gives you concrete knowledge, tools and methods for working with sustainability in companies in a structured way. We go through important sustainability frameworks, tools and legislation such as CSRD/ESRS, the GHG Protocol, circular business models, effective communication and the double materiality assessment. You will also learn how to act to mobilise the capacity for change and bring the organisation along in the sustainability work.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: As a participant you will: - Strengthen your competence in sustainability, legislation and standards in relation to the conditions of business - Gain knowledge and tools to lead and steer companies' sustainability work in a structured and forward-looking way - Get an orientation in sustainability issues central to companies, such as sustainability reporting linked to CSRD, double materiality assessment, climate calculations, circular economy and circular business models, sustainable supply chains (CSDDD), sustainability communication, and strategies and methods for mobilising the capacity for change and bringing your organisation along A diploma is awarded to all participants who have completed both course days.

What you will learn

What you learn.

  • The sustainability issue in a business context
  • The step-by-step process for structured sustainability work
  • Sustainability frameworks, legislation and standards such as CSRD/ESRS, CSDDD, the GHG Protocol and the EU Green Deal
  • Tools and methods for horizon scanning and positioning: which level of ambition is right for your company?
  • Introduction to climate calculations, circularity and circular business models
  • Strategies and methods for mobilising the capacity for change, communicating effectively and bringing your organisation along
  • The double materiality assessment: its purpose, methodology and how you can use the results
  • How to integrate sustainability work into daily work processes
  • Developing your role as sustainability manager through practical case exercises
Curriculum

How the course is built.

  1. Welcome and introduction

    Introduction to and background of the concept of sustainability and its importance for companies.

  2. Systems understanding of sustainability

  3. Structured sustainability work

    We go step by step through the process for working with sustainability in a structured way.

  4. Sustainability frameworks, legislation and standards

    A review of important frameworks, laws and standards such as the GHG Protocol and the EU Green Deal, including CSRD/ESRS, CSDDD and Green Claims.

  5. Finding the right level of ambition for your company

    The right level of ambition for a company depends on its own drive, but also on the context the company is in, what is happening in the wider world and how customers and competitors are positioned. We go through various tools that are useful for that analysis.

  6. The double materiality assessment: the heart of sustainability work

    An overall orientation in the double materiality assessment, its purpose, methodology and how the results can be used

  7. Orientation in climate calculations

  8. Circular economy and circular business models

  9. Sustainability communication

  10. Communication and buy-in within your own organisation

    How you as a sustainability manager mobilise the capacity for change and bring your organisation along Conditions for successful change work A review of stakeholder analysis and contracting What happens when things do not go as planned

  11. Integrating sustainability work into daily work processes

    How should we organise ourselves and run the ongoing work to have endurance and succeed How can we benefit from horizontal learning to increase our capability

  12. Case: Develop your role as sustainability manager

    Participants work in pairs to identify specific challenges and opportunities in their own organisations.

Target audience

Who is this for?

You who today have responsibility for sustainability work in a company or want to prepare for such a role, and want to sharpen your knowledge so that you can support companies in taking the next step in their sustainability work. If you have longer experience of sustainability work and want to move to an even more strategic level, we instead recommend the course Diplomerad hållbarhetsstrateg: näringsliv (Sustainability Strategist Diploma, Business).

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