Note from the ISSP team: The ISSP Sustainability Short Course is intended as a fundamental learning experience that anyone can benefit from, regardless of job description. To gain a more intermediate understanding of the same learning outcomes presented in the Short Course, we recommend ISSP’s Sustainability Foundations 4-hour course, which dives deeper into these themes, including on natural capital, ecological footprint, Natural Step, Gaia Theory, the UN system, leading sustainability leaders and much more.
► Professionals wishing to gain foundational knowledge on sustainability but for whom sustainability may not be a direct work function in their job description
► Business, corporations, higher education institutions providing broad-based sustainability knowledge to their entire workforce in a quickly digestible format
► Beginning sustainability professionals working in any sector
► Students in all disciplines who may not have sustainability courses as part of their degree program
► Anyone interested in contributing to a world that can sustain healthy, livable societies
At their core, sustainability concepts are about understanding and fostering systems — economic, social, and environmental — that can operate in perpetuity. Here is your invitation to join ISSP, the leading global network of sustainability professionals, as we present an overview of our foundations-level course to ready prospective sustainability practitioners of all backgrounds to be agents of positive change in their communities, companies, and the green workforce.
Across five self-paced modules—presented through an engaging animated slide deck and easy-to-follow narration—you’ll visit several key moments, concepts, and figures throughout sustainability’s history. Join us touring the first Earth Day and the groundbreaking environmental policies it inspired to the adoption of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, along with the evolution of economic theory to incorporate resources from a finite planet. Gain basic-level knowledge on key environmental, social and governance mechanisms organizations are using to embed sustainability in their corporate operations, government policies, and throughout society.
If you, your employees or students seek an overview spanning the founding of the United Nations System decades ago to cradle-to-cradle circularity and ESG principles driving progress today, the ISSP Short Course is for you.
Following the successful completion of the course, students will receive a Certificate of Completion, indicating they understand the basics of sustainability concepts, frameworks used by practitioners, and the leading initiatives advancing sustainability around the world.
The course is presented in five modules, totally 1 hour:
1) What is sustainability?
2) The limits to growth and systems thinking
3) Areas of environmental impact
4) Areas of social and economic impact
5) Levers for change
Course participants will take one quiz at the end of each module, approximately 30 questions each. Following the successful completion of the course, students will understand the basics of sustainability concepts, frameworks used by practitioners, and the leading initiatives advancing sustainability around the world.
Upgrades to the ISSP course technology will occur Summer 2024. Please note this transition will result in the loss of any progress you make in completion of this course. All course users will be provided a minimum of 30-day notice prior to platform transition to complete course. Access will be granted automatically on the upgraded platform for future course use.
Distributors may purchase multiple copies of packages to distribute to learners, and follow their progress. Bulk discounts are below.
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