Sustainability Session (Title TBD)

University of California, Berkeley

Two-day Session
In this two-day sustainability course, professionals will gain understanding of the key concepts, tools, and ideas necessary to make business decisions integrating social and environmental elements as part of the core strategy. 

The sustainability effort for your organization is not about appeasing activists and figuring out how to make your business “less bad.” It is about providing new value to your organization by maximizing the available resources and moving beyond business as usual.
Your Takeaways
  • Gain sustainability-related knowledge to use across any enterprise.
  • Introduction to hands-on technical skills to use in the sustainability field.
  • Greater understanding of climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, and carbon intensity. 
  • UC Berkeley certificate of completion



Scientific Advisory Board

Max Auffhammer
George Pardee Jr. Professor of Sustainable Development
UC Berkeley
Photo of Mike Cheng smiling at the camera
Mike Cheng
Advisor to the Dean and Executive-In-Residence
Rausser College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley
David Zilberman
Professor, Robinson Chair
Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
J. Keith Gilless
Dean Emeritus
Rausser College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley
Who should attend

This session was developed for executives with demanding schedules. It was designed to be short and intensive, consisting of lectures, discussions, and interactive activities such as the review of cases studies and applied exercises. Participants are mid-career professionals who are challenged to solve complex cross-sectoral sustainability problems from a wide range of disciplinary, geographic, and organizational backgrounds including nonprofit and community-based organizations, applied research and education institutions, government, international agencies, and the business sector.

Agenda

Session 1: The Economic Value of Sustainable Busine

Session 2: Analytics for Sustainable Decision Making

Session 3: Sustainable Supply Chain Management

View Course Descriptions.