Sustainable Development & Corporate Social Responsibility
- Sustainable Development Training emphasizes integrating economic, social, and environmental policies for a better quality of life.
- Innovation and creativity are crucial for engineers and scientists to meet people's needs sustainably.
- Resource efficiency is key for organizations to become more eco-efficient and create more value with less impact.
- Professionals from various backgrounds can benefit from the course's content and methods of instruction.
- Course delivery includes power point presentations, group discussions, and syndicate sessions.
Overview
The Sustainable Development Training course aims to equip professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to integrate economic, social, and environmental policies for a better quality of life for current and future generations. Objectives include promoting resource efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness while meeting consumer demand for sustainable goods and services. The course covers topics such as quality of life, environmental impacts, and corporate social responsibility. It is designed for professionals from various backgrounds and includes tutored sessions, group discussions, and industrial case studies. Delivery methods include presentations and handouts.
Who should attend
Engineers, Scientists
Course Content
Sustainable Development Training
The sustainability agenda is developing faster than any other part of the business agenda, with the relevant understanding and skills likely to be necessary conditions for success in the 21stcentury. Many organisations find the term sustainability abstract, a concept with which it is difficult to connect. At its heart lies the simple idea of integrating economic, social and environmental policies to ensure a better quality of life for everyone, now and for generations to come. Sustainable development means meeting 4 objectives at the same time:
- Social progress which recognises the needs of everyone;
- Effective protection of the environment;
- Prudent use of natural resources; and
- Maintenance of high and stable levels of economic growth.
Course Objectives:
Innovation and creativity on an unprecedented scale will be required to yield new processes, new methodologies and new ways of managing the future role of technology. There is a need therefore to examine ways in which engineers and scientists are able to take a central role in finding new ways of meeting people’s needs, expectations and aspirations whilst ensuring that the economy, society and the built and natural environments grow and develop in harmony. Yet the environment is struggling to cope with even current levels of consumption and climate change is just the latest and loudest of a number of wake up calls.
Resource efficiency lies at the heart of the sustainability challenge and organisations need to become more “eco-efficient”. The objectives of the course are to provide delegates with the appropriate knowledge, skills and competencies to apply technologies
- To ensure that sustainable development meets the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs;
- To create more value with less impact;
- To seize opportunities to innovate and enhance competitiveness;
- To make better use of physical, human and financial resources;
- To meet growing consumer demand for more environmentally and socially acceptable goods and services.
Intended for:
The nature of the course is such that professionals from a wide range of backgrounds can be accommodated.
Methods of Instruction:
Course participants will be required to apply knowledge gained during tutored sessions into group discussions and syndicate sessions, and will identify and define appropriate technologies and their application to industrial case studies.
Delivery Methods:
Course delivery will comprise a combination of short power point presentations with flip chart demonstrations. Delegate handouts will include notes on technical theory and diagnostic exercises.
Programme Schedule:
An Introduction to Sustainable Development
Session 1 – Quality of Life
Session 2 – Eco-centrism -v- Techno-centrism
Session 3 – Capacity for Continuance
Environmental Burden
Session 4 – Environmental Impacts, Human Activity & Biophysical Limits
Session 5 – Protection & Enhancement of Earth’s Life Support Systems
Session 6 – De-materialisation
Improving Environmental Performance
Session 7 – Global Climatic Challenges
Session 8 – Socio-Economic Needs
Session 9 – Life Cycle Assessment
Corporate Social Responsibility
Session 10 – Increasing Productivity for Economic Development
Session 11 – Ethics, Technology & Ideology
Session 12 – Stakeholder Impacts & Future Challenges
Sustainable Development training Inverness, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.
Sustainable Development Training in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, India, Ghana and Nigeria is also available.
