Sustainability Academy

Equip your employees with the skills they need to navigate the complexities of sustainability, from foundational understanding to transformative business strategies.

Sustainability: A strategic imperative reshaping entire organizations

Sustainability isn’t an option anymore — today, it’s a strategic imperative for all organizations. What is more, sustainability is continuously evolving, with both a regulatory landscape and consumer preferences in flux. This reality in turn requires every aspect of an organization to prioritize relevant elements and integrate them within its respective strategies and approaches.

Executive education programs

For senior leaders, managers, and high potentials

8 Weeks

Cambridge (CISL) Business Sustainability Management

Craft a practical sustainability plan, harnessing the power of innovation and technology. Gain insights into worldwide environmental regulations, the implications of sustainable production, and the impact of consumption patterns.

6 Weeks

Oxford Leading Sustainable Corporations Programme – Oxford Saïd

Gain skills for climate risk management, ESG integration, and sustainable value creation. Formulate impactful KPIs, integrate sustainability into governance, and access Oxford Saïd insights for positive change.

6 Weeks

Yale SOM Corporate Sustainability Management: Risk, Profit, and Purpose

Formulate a robust corporate sustainability strategy with expert guidance. Discern potential risks and opportunities, acquire proficiency in strategic frameworks, and garner the expertise needed to facilitate the successful implementation of sustainable practices.

8 Weeks

University of Cambridge Leading Sustainability: High Impact Leadership

Equip yourself with key competencies and tools to unite teams around a shared goal and find your own purpose as a leader. The course is facilitated by industry experts and faculty members from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), who bring many years of experience in supporting business lea

8 Weeks

Cambridge (CISL) Business and Climate Change: Towards Net Zero Emissions

Gain insights into climate-related risks and opportunities. Learn from successful low-carbon initiatives. Lead collaborations, align goals, and rewire your business for long-term resilience and profitability. Get a net zero emission transition action plan for sustainability.

6 Weeks

Yale SOM Corporate Climate Change Risk Management

Gain climate science knowledge. Measure scope emissions, analyze business carbon footprint with GHG Protocol. Integrate climate into strategy through carbon disclosure, management. Understand carbon pricing, trading, credits. Enhance climate risk reporting via TCFD model.

6 Weeks

Economist Education Climate Change and Business: Sustainability, Risk and the Push for Net Zero

Gain climate science, economics, and risk insights. Implement ESG and decarbonization strategies effectively. Learn tools to measure, reduce, and offset carbon emissions. Master climate disclosure and carbon footprint assessment for business.

6 Weeks

Oxford Climate Emergency Programme – Oxford Saïd

Understand the urgency of climate action and your pivotal role. Ignite sustainable change through innovative collaboration. Construct a 100-day action plan, propelling impactful climate initiatives within your organization.

6 Weeks

Yale SOM Sustainable Finance and Investment

Equip yourself with tools and insights to make informed sustainable financial decisions. Gain a comprehensive understanding of ESG and leverage data for strategic investment choices. Learn from Yale SOM faculty and experts for impactful sustainable finance strategies.

8 Weeks

Cambridge (CISL) Sustainable Finance and Investment

Elevate supply chain efficiency through technology and analytics integration. Skillfully navigate risk in complex landscapes, fostering resilience. Elevate global supply chain operations with sustainability measures and value creation strategies.

8 Weeks

Cambridge (CISL) Sustainable Finance and Investment

Gain insights into sustainability challenges in real estate and learn solutions. Understand how sustainability enhances communities and business value through systems thinking. Develop a strategy to promote sustainability in your organization or sphere of influence.

8 Weeks

Cambridge (CISL) Sustainable Finance and Investment

Gain insights into sustainability in finance and business, addressing climate impacts on financial systems. Develop skills for steering capital towards sustainability, mitigating financial risks, and creating lasting value. Craft sustainable finance strategies and integration plans.

8 Weeks

Cambridge (CISL) Sustainable Marketing, Media and Creative

Explore sustainable marketing transformation, reforming psychological, sociological, and environmental impacts. Innovate purpose-driven marketing with tools and confidence. Develop a Strategy for Action to drive change. Join a global cohort for collaboration, and access the CISL Network.

3 Weeks

LSE Sustainability Communication Strategies

Gain insight into sustainability messaging’s factors, adapt to evolving landscapes. Understand audience attitudes for effective communication. Balance ethics, reputation, and stakeholder interests using the TADD model. Frame messages for maximum impact.

8 Weeks

Cambridge (CISL) Communicating for Influence and Impact

Excel in stakeholder communication, harnessing its power to drive transformative change. Develop a Personal Impact Plan to amplify your influence. Ignite innovation and promote sustainability, fostering a ripple effect of positive impact.

2 Weeks

Economist Education Data Storytelling and Visualisation

Enroll to cultivate a data-driven mindset for effective problem-solving. Acquire skills in data storytelling and visualization techniques to influence decision-making. Master the art of data visualization, gaining proficiency in selecting and utilizing impactful chart formats.

8

Cambridge (CISL) Business Sustainability Management

Craft a practical sustainability plan, harnessing the power of innovation and technology. Gain insights into worldwide environmental regulations, the implications of sustainable production, and the impact of consumption patterns.

6

Oxford Leading Sustainable Corporations Programme – Oxford Saïd

Gain skills for climate risk management, ESG integration, and sustainable value creation. Formulate impactful KPIs, integrate sustainability into governance, and access Oxford Saïd insights for positive change.

6

Yale SOM Corporate Sustainability Management: Risk, Profit, and Purpose

Formulate a robust corporate sustainability strategy with expert guidance. Discern potential risks and opportunities, acquire proficiency in strategic frameworks, and garner the expertise needed to facilitate the successful implementation of sustainable practices.

8

University of Cambridge Leading Sustainability: High Impact Leadership

Equip yourself with key competencies and tools to unite teams around a shared goal and find your own purpose as a leader. The course is facilitated by industry experts and faculty members from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), who bring many years of experience in supporting business lea

8

Cambridge (CISL) Business and Climate Change: Towards Net Zero Emissions

Gain insights into climate-related risks and opportunities. Learn from successful low-carbon initiatives. Lead collaborations, align goals, and rewire your business for long-term resilience and profitability. Get a net zero emission transition action plan for sustainability.

6

Yale SOM Corporate Climate Change Risk Management

Gain climate science knowledge. Measure scope emissions, analyze business carbon footprint with GHG Protocol. Integrate climate into strategy through carbon disclosure, management. Understand carbon pricing, trading, credits. Enhance climate risk reporting via TCFD model.

6

Economist Education Climate Change and Business: Sustainability, Risk and the Push for Net Zero

Gain climate science, economics, and risk insights. Implement ESG and decarbonization strategies effectively. Learn tools to measure, reduce, and offset carbon emissions. Master climate disclosure and carbon footprint assessment for business.

6

Oxford Climate Emergency Programme – Oxford Saïd

Understand the urgency of climate action and your pivotal role. Ignite sustainable change through innovative collaboration. Construct a 100-day action plan, propelling impactful climate initiatives within your organization.

6

Yale SOM Sustainable Finance and Investment

Equip yourself with tools and insights to make informed sustainable financial decisions. Gain a comprehensive understanding of ESG and leverage data for strategic investment choices. Learn from Yale SOM faculty and experts for impactful sustainable finance strategies.

8

Cambridge (CISL) Sustainable Finance and Investment

Elevate supply chain efficiency through technology and analytics integration. Skillfully navigate risk in complex landscapes, fostering resilience. Elevate global supply chain operations with sustainability measures and value creation strategies.

8

Cambridge (CISL) Sustainable Finance and Investment

Gain insights into sustainability challenges in real estate and learn solutions. Understand how sustainability enhances communities and business value through systems thinking. Develop a strategy to promote sustainability in your organization or sphere of influence.

8

Cambridge (CISL) Sustainable Finance and Investment

Gain insights into sustainability in finance and business, addressing climate impacts on financial systems. Develop skills for steering capital towards sustainability, mitigating financial risks, and creating lasting value. Craft sustainable finance strategies and integration plans.

8

Cambridge (CISL) Sustainable Marketing, Media and Creative

Explore sustainable marketing transformation, reforming psychological, sociological, and environmental impacts. Innovate purpose-driven marketing with tools and confidence. Develop a Strategy for Action to drive change. Join a global cohort for collaboration, and access the CISL Network.

3

LSE Sustainability Communication Strategies

Gain insight into sustainability messaging’s factors, adapt to evolving landscapes. Understand audience attitudes for effective communication. Balance ethics, reputation, and stakeholder interests using the TADD model. Frame messages for maximum impact.

8

Cambridge (CISL) Communicating for Influence and Impact

Excel in stakeholder communication, harnessing its power to drive transformative change. Develop a Personal Impact Plan to amplify your influence. Ignite innovation and promote sustainability, fostering a ripple effect of positive impact.

2

Economist Education Data Storytelling and Visualisation

Enroll to cultivate a data-driven mindset for effective problem-solving. Acquire skills in data storytelling and visualization techniques to influence decision-making. Master the art of data visualization, gaining proficiency in selecting and utilizing impactful chart formats.

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Self-paced programs

For all teams

7 Weeks

Delft University of Technology Circular Economy: An Introduction

Drive sustainability via innovative business approaches. Uncover circular economy’s roots, business value, longer-lasting products, remanufacturing, waste-to-food concepts, systemic thinking, and practical applications. Contribute to a more sustainable future.

5 Weeks

UMCES Strategic Communication for Sustainability Leaders

In this University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science course, you’ll learn about science communication for environmental fields. Analyze, create data visualization, craft captivating narratives using ‘and, but, therefore’ method, and develop compelling communication products.

6 Weeks

The University of Tokyo Sustainability Science – A Key Concept for Future Design

Explore global sustainability science. Study historical lessons, current challenges, human-nature connections, urban-rural land use, environmental governance, ESD, and theoretical concepts. Discover Japan’s experiences and international initiatives.

7 Weeks

WUR Environmental Gamechanger – Lead the Way to Sustainable Development

Empower yourself for real change with this Wageningen University and Research course. Address global issues like climate change, pollution. Gain tools to comprehend sustainability, define problems, reflect on societal actors, develop change-making skills, and apply them to local issues.

10 Weeks

SDG Academy Climate Action: Solutions for a Changing Planet

Translate climate commitments into impactful actions. Direct efforts towards global emissions reduction and decarbonizing economies. Examine Russian and Australian initiatives alongside community and individual actions for a comprehensive approach to addressing climate challenges.

5 Weeks

The University of Edinburgh Climate Change: Carbon Capture and Storage

Explore Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) tech for atmosphere protection. Learn safe fossil fuel usage per Paris Climate Agreement. Discover CCS’s emission-reduction role, carbon-negative solutions, disposal methods, global status, and future industry scale. Suitable for all backgrounds.

1 Weeks

The International Monetary Fund Inclusive Growth: Climate Change

Attain comprehensive insights into the multifaceted threats of climate change encompassing societal, economic, and environmental dimensions. Define pertinent risks, craft effective mitigation and adaptation policies, and formulate inclusive reform strategies tailored to diverse country contexts.

6 Weeks

Columbia University Frontiers of Science: Climate and Us

Dive into Earth’s temperature balance, and its influencing factors. Study feedback loops’ importance, and past and future climate predictions and historical records. Assess human impact, explore adaptation and mitigation strategies. Use calculations, plots, and models for thorough understanding.

6 Weeks

Delft University of Technology Policy and Management of Modern Energy Systems

Gain insight into energy systems, transitions for climate combat. Analyze physical, economic, policy aspects, understand stakeholders, markets, regulation, renewable integration, policy intervention, and disruptive tech trends. Make informed decisions, design policies.

13 Weeks

MIT Sustainable Energy

Analyze energy tech from engineering, socio-political angles. Evaluate features, opportunities, challenges for global decarbonization. Apply systems-level tools, assess projects’ dimensions, and collaborate with stakeholders for sustainability.

10 Weeks

HarvardX Energy Within Environmental Constraints

This course is a quantitative intro to energy system and environment. Learn about engineering, environmental science, economics, tech, and impacts. Explore air pollution, climate change, land use, cost estimation, and carbon impact assessment.

6 Weeks

Imperial College London Incorporating Renewable Energy in Electricity Grids

Learn about variable renewable integration for cost-effective, reliable electricity. Learn conventional generators’ operation, electricity generation technologies, variable renewables’ impact, incorporation methods, future changes, and global integration approaches.

4 Weeks

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences Sustainable Corporate Financing: Foundations

Apply to traditional financing, explore sustainability’s relevance, quantify it, differentiate investor strategies, assess company approaches, and integrate sustainability into financing options for transitions. Practical examples and case studies included.

4 Weeks

ISCEA Sustainable Supply Chain Operations and Technology

Analyze efficient sustainable supply chain processes. Learn sustainable tools, end-to-end transformation, stages connection, circular thinking, transportation. Integrate sustainable manufacturing, warehousing, renewables in distribution. Connect enabling tools to sustainability and circular design.

10 Weeks

KU Leuven Sustainable Trade

Delve into sustainable international trade. Grasp global value chains, trade’s peace and SDG role. Learn voluntary sustainability standards (VSS), design, impact, motivations, policy integration. Gain interdisciplinary insights for global sustainability.

5 Weeks

The University of Queensland Essential Tools For The Low Carbon Economy

Explore global climate policies’ impact on low-carbon economy competitiveness. Understand climate change as public policy, adaptation/mitigation, carbon management. Learn carbon footprinting, MACCs, ETS engagement, project optimization, ETS options.

7

Delft University of Technology Circular Economy: An Introduction

Drive sustainability via innovative business approaches. Uncover circular economy’s roots, business value, longer-lasting products, remanufacturing, waste-to-food concepts, systemic thinking, and practical applications. Contribute to a more sustainable future.

5

UMCES Strategic Communication for Sustainability Leaders

In this University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science course, you’ll learn about science communication for environmental fields. Analyze, create data visualization, craft captivating narratives using ‘and, but, therefore’ method, and develop compelling communication products.

6

The University of Tokyo Sustainability Science – A Key Concept for Future Design

Explore global sustainability science. Study historical lessons, current challenges, human-nature connections, urban-rural land use, environmental governance, ESD, and theoretical concepts. Discover Japan’s experiences and international initiatives.

7

WUR Environmental Gamechanger – Lead the Way to Sustainable Development

Empower yourself for real change with this Wageningen University and Research course. Address global issues like climate change, pollution. Gain tools to comprehend sustainability, define problems, reflect on societal actors, develop change-making skills, and apply them to local issues.

10

SDG Academy Climate Action: Solutions for a Changing Planet

Translate climate commitments into impactful actions. Direct efforts towards global emissions reduction and decarbonizing economies. Examine Russian and Australian initiatives alongside community and individual actions for a comprehensive approach to addressing climate challenges.

5

The University of Edinburgh Climate Change: Carbon Capture and Storage

Explore Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) tech for atmosphere protection. Learn safe fossil fuel usage per Paris Climate Agreement. Discover CCS’s emission-reduction role, carbon-negative solutions, disposal methods, global status, and future industry scale. Suitable for all backgrounds.

1

The International Monetary Fund Inclusive Growth: Climate Change

Attain comprehensive insights into the multifaceted threats of climate change encompassing societal, economic, and environmental dimensions. Define pertinent risks, craft effective mitigation and adaptation policies, and formulate inclusive reform strategies tailored to diverse country contexts.

6

Columbia University Frontiers of Science: Climate and Us

Dive into Earth’s temperature balance, and its influencing factors. Study feedback loops’ importance, and past and future climate predictions and historical records. Assess human impact, explore adaptation and mitigation strategies. Use calculations, plots, and models for thorough understanding.

6

Delft University of Technology Policy and Management of Modern Energy Systems

Gain insight into energy systems, transitions for climate combat. Analyze physical, economic, policy aspects, understand stakeholders, markets, regulation, renewable integration, policy intervention, and disruptive tech trends. Make informed decisions, design policies.

13

MIT Sustainable Energy

Analyze energy tech from engineering, socio-political angles. Evaluate features, opportunities, challenges for global decarbonization. Apply systems-level tools, assess projects’ dimensions, and collaborate with stakeholders for sustainability.

10

HarvardX Energy Within Environmental Constraints

This course is a quantitative intro to energy system and environment. Learn about engineering, environmental science, economics, tech, and impacts. Explore air pollution, climate change, land use, cost estimation, and carbon impact assessment.

6

Imperial College London Incorporating Renewable Energy in Electricity Grids

Learn about variable renewable integration for cost-effective, reliable electricity. Learn conventional generators’ operation, electricity generation technologies, variable renewables’ impact, incorporation methods, future changes, and global integration approaches.

4

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences Sustainable Corporate Financing: Foundations

Apply to traditional financing, explore sustainability’s relevance, quantify it, differentiate investor strategies, assess company approaches, and integrate sustainability into financing options for transitions. Practical examples and case studies included.

4

ISCEA Sustainable Supply Chain Operations and Technology

Analyze efficient sustainable supply chain processes. Learn sustainable tools, end-to-end transformation, stages connection, circular thinking, transportation. Integrate sustainable manufacturing, warehousing, renewables in distribution. Connect enabling tools to sustainability and circular design.

10

KU Leuven Sustainable Trade

Delve into sustainable international trade. Grasp global value chains, trade’s peace and SDG role. Learn voluntary sustainability standards (VSS), design, impact, motivations, policy integration. Gain interdisciplinary insights for global sustainability.

5

The University of Queensland Essential Tools For The Low Carbon Economy

Explore global climate policies’ impact on low-carbon economy competitiveness. Understand climate change as public policy, adaptation/mitigation, carbon management. Learn carbon footprinting, MACCs, ETS engagement, project optimization, ETS options.

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  1. Percentage of corporate learners that enroll in multiple courses. edX Proprietary Data, 1 September 2020 – 15 September 2023. ↩︎
  2. 2022 Transparency & Outcomes Report. p 9. (2023) edX. Retrieved September 6, 2023. ↩︎
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  5. 2022 Transparency & Outcomes Report. p 9. (2023) edX. Retrieved September 6, 2023. ↩︎
  6. Based on surveys sent to learners who completed a course. edX Proprietary Data. (2023). edX. 1 September 2019 – 1 September 2023 ↩︎