CAM Business and Climate Change: Towards Net Zero Emissions

This course is for you if:

• You’re interested in understanding global warming and climate change risk implications and opportunities to enhance your organisation’s long-term value.
• You’d like to explore real-world innovation and design strategies that can enhance long-term organisational resilience.
• You want to sustainably and profitably rewire your business model, and drive change toward a net-zero future.

You’ll walk away with:

• A real-world understanding of the multifaceted business risks posed by climate change, and the strategic opportunities and untapped value that arise from taking action.
• Strategies for driving collaborative action and stimulating triple bottom line performance accounting for people, profit, and the planet.
• The ability to rewire your business model for long-term resilience and profitability in an uncertain and disruptive future.
• An action plan to facilitate the transition to net-zero emissions to help you set your organisation's sustainability objectives enabling you to lead change in your organisation and beyond.

Over the duration of this online short course, you’ll work through the following modules:

• Module 1: A changing climate for business
  Discover the impact and dependencies of climate change on society, the global economy, and your business.
• Module 2: The vision of a net-zero carbon future
  Reimagining a more prosperous, net-zero world, and envisioning the milestones to get there.
• Module 3: The need to repurpose the economic system
  Explore the risks and opportunities as the economic system is repurposed.
• Module 4: Collaborating and leading a low carbon transition
  Discover the importance of policy and partnership in moving beyond business as usual.
• Module 5: Decarbonisation success stories
  Explore examples of success in moving from a carbon-intensive to a net-zero economy.
• Module 6: Innovation and design for a net-zero 21st century
  Understand why low carbon innovation requires a shift in how the economy grows.
• Module 7: Leading change and coping with disruption
  Recognise the leadership competencies required to encourage the winners and enable the losers to benefit from a low carbon transition.
• Module 8: Your role in leading the transition
  Describe your role, forecasting barriers, and embracing support for effectively leading a change process.

Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during course development.

Manage your time

GetSmarter's learning model is designed to help you, as a working professional, improve your skills without compromising on work and family responsibilities. The course work is broken up into weekly, manageable bite-sized modules, with incremental deadlines, designed to help you pace yourself over the duration of the course and allow you the legroom to work when it suits you best.

At the beginning of each module, you'll be presented with the course content and assignments necessary for completion. You also have access to your Success Adviser who will help you manage your time, and support you with any administrative or technical queries you might have.

Seek employer assistance

By improving your skills and industry knowledge, you'll have an influence on the success of your organization. Why wouldn't you ask your boss to help you fund your studies if it's going to have an impact on the way you do business?

Of our past students, 37 percent have received financial assistance from their employers. You can ask for help, too.

If you are a Learning & Development (L&D) manager, or involved in training and upskilling for an organization, you can request information regarding our corporate offering on our GetSmarter for a business page.