Optimizing Sustainability in an Organization

Optimizing Sustainability in an Organization

Course Duration: 2 Days

Sustainability is a key concern of organizations worldwide. While “sustainability” can be defined in many ways, this training focuses on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors. By exploring these topics, organizations can better understand and manage both risks and opportunities, enabling them to optimize performance in the marketplace amid physical and transition risks in a rapidly changing world.

This two-day course is designed for those responsible to ensure their organization identifies both risks and opportunities when planning and implementing sustainability initiatives designed to benefit the organization and ensure its social license to operate. Sustainability Managers also contribute to the development of public disclosures that keep decision makers and key stakeholders informed of the organization's progress in managing identified risks and opportunities.

This training covers the key standards that support an organization’s journey to optimizing sustainability. It describes methods for determining the materiality of topics of environment, social, and governance so that key indicators and metrics can be defined, communicated, and disclosed.

This training also addresses how organizations can prepare for validation or verification of their pathways to optimizing sustainability. Organizations and their third-party assurance providers can use ISO 14019 – Sustainability Information to determine methods to establish requirements for reporting, improve data quality, and ensure both key decision-makers informed and all interested parties are informed.

This course will lay the foundation for reporting to voluntary or regulatory programs, identifying hot spots, and taking action to deal with actual or emerging issues.