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ONLINE COURSE

Sustainability:

Strategies and Opportunities for Industry

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Why enroll in this course?

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Gain all-encompassing insights into sustainable business practices applicable to professionals in every industry.

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Become a catalyst for change within your organization by using qualitative and quantitative information to make sustainable business decisions.

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Create pragmatic strategies and establish policies that are applicable across multiple sectors to improve sustainability.

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Engage in two live sessions with MIT instructors, and up to eight live sessions with learning facilitators, industry experts, and peers.

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Networking opportunities establish professional connections with industry experts and your cohort.

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Access to rich supplementary resources provides additional materials and content for a more thorough educational journey.

Certificate

Certificate

All the participants who successfully complete their program will receive an MIT Professional Education Certificate of Completion, as well as Continuing Education Units (CEUs)*.

To obtain CEUs, complete the accreditation confirmation, which is available at the end of the course. CEUs are calculated for each course based on the number of learning hours.

*The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is defined as 10 contact hours of ongoing learning to indicate the amount of time they have devoted to a non-credit/non-degree professional development program. To understand whether or not these CEUs may be applied toward professional certification, licensing requirements, or other required training or continuing education hours, please consult your training department or licensing authority directly.

Course outline

This online course seeks to prepare professionals from different industries with the necessary skills and experience to improve sustainability in their business operations. Each participant will discover the tools to create real and feasible strategies in their organization.

  • The Concept of Sustainability

  • Tragedy of the Commons

  • Shared Use of Common Resources: A Variety of Approaches

  • Industrialization And Global Population  

  • Principles of Sustainability

  • IPAT And Ecological Footprint 

  • Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

  • Life Cycle Assessment - Using Open LCA software

  • Measuring Sustainability

  • Material Flows: Water

  • Material Flows: Food

  • Material flows

  • Classifying Materials

  • Waste

  • Energy

  • Environmental Consequences of our Expanding Energy Needs

  • Energy System Transition

  • Circular Economy

  • Dematerialization

  • Industrial Ecology

  • Sustainable Business Strategies

  • Cities and Resources: Historical Perspective

  • Cities and Resources: Urban Economics

  • Urban Population

  • Urban Metabolism

  • Urban Resources Consumption

  • Tools for Addressing Urban Sustainability

  • Urban Climate Risks

  • Ethics of Sustainability

  • Ethical Traditions

  • Forms of Justice

  • Ethical Production and Consumption

  • Corporate Misconduct and Moving Forward

  • The Nine Planetary Boundaries

  • Corporate Sustainability

  • Climate Change and Rapid Decarbonization

  • Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  • Climate Solutions

  • The Anthropocene

  • United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

  • A Closer Look at Four SDGs

  • International Agreements and Environmental Challenges

  • Mercury Pollution

  • Loss of Biological Diversity

  • Risks and Rewards of the Grand Transition

Who is this online course for?

  • Corporate and strategic decision-makers determined to make an impact in their organizations.

  • C-suite, managers, and other high-level professionals from any sector who oversee teams and are interested in implementing new strategies to enhance their business’s sustainability.

  • Technical experts with a strong interest in sustainable business operations.

  • Professionals who want to implement sustainable practices in their industry.

  • Data analysts, scientists, and engineers interested in achieving data-driven sustainable outcomes.

Instructor

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Prof. John E. Fernández

Professor of Building Technology Program in the Department of Architecture and Director of MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

I gained a wealth of information from this course. The depth of the material covered helped me understand the concept of sustainability, from the broadest sense to the many details needed to grasp eve...
Sidney Biddle SUS
Sidney Biddle
Director, Business Development and Strategy, AtkinsRéalis
MSChE, EIT
This MIT Professional Education course was challenging and exciting, affording me the opportunity to understand sustainability in a global context. The modules on circular economy, dematerialization, ...
Olugbenga Adesanwo SUS
Olugbenga Adesanwo
Sustainability Deputy Manager, NNPC Limited
I found the content of the course to be in perfect alignment with its name, Sustainable Strategies and Opportunities for Industry. It was a thought-provoking course that equipped me with valuable tool...
Daniel Ayres BCA
Charles Haryslak
New Business Development, Polar Provisions

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