Sustainability, and Circular Economy Models and Principles Programme

Overview

🕮 Off the shelf (OTS)

As many people already understand, sustainable practices such as cutting back on the printing of documents, help to reduce pollution and to conserve natural resources like water and energy. Similarly, the reusing and recycling of products reduces landscape and habitat disruption, and helps to limit biodiversity loss. Now, the drive for introducing sustainable corporate practices into the workplace is intensifying; departments and employees alike have a responsibility to equip themselves with the knowledge and understanding they are going to need to embrace and support new and better ways of working.

This programme, comprising 7 bite-sized modules, provides an introduction to corporate sustainability and the circular economy, and takes approximately 2-and-a-half hours to complete. Participants will learn how to incorporate sustainable practices and/or circular economy principles into the workplace including: energy usage, procurement and supply chains, social responsibility, business plans and stakeholder engagement. Reporting of sustainability performance is also discussed, including data collecting and reporting.

This programme is suitable for UK civil service employees and would suit anyone with an interest in corporate sustainability and the circular economy.

Module 1 discusses sustainability and its three pillars, and the concept of a circular economy in comparison to a linear economy
Module 2 looks at Sustainable practices in the workplace
Module 3 provides an introduction to Sustainable procurement and supply chain
Module 4 looks at Social Sustainability and Employee Wellbeing
Module 5 provides an overview of Circular Economy Business Models
Module 6 looks at engaging Stakeholders in sustainability
Module 7 provides an overview of Measuring and Reporting Sustainability Performance for the organisation