• Understanding of the Impact of IT in the Sustainability Journey
• Understand how to practice Sustainable IT, a significant portion of Carbon Footprint contributor
• Helps to build a more resilient organization
• Comply with Regulatory Requirements

• Environmental Impact Reduction
• Cost Savings
• Enhanced CSR and ESG Value
• Improved Compliance and Regulatory Adherence
• Helps organization to be more Innovative and Competitive
• Make a positive Societal Impact

• CEOs/CFOs/CSs
• CIOs/CTOs/CSOs
• Senior and Mid – Management in IT
• Any IT Practitioners
  • Developers
  • Testers
  • DBAs
  • Infrastructure and Operations
  • DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE Practitioners
  • Platform Engineers
• Organization Function / Department Heads
• Anyone interested to know at Sustainable IT

Brief About The Program

Sustainability is at the top of the mind of all CEOs and is an important topic for the Board. Strong ESG Practices are being driven primarily by regulators, investors and stakeholders. Climate change and evolving business challenges are forcing companies to reassess their ESG Risks. Funding and Regulations are decisively moving towards “Sustainability” driven.

The Board is ultimately responsible for creating and driving the company’s Sustainability and ESG agenda. To make them ready this course is important. The ESG Proficient Directors is aimed at preparing you for a Board position to contribute as an ESG proficient Director.

Key Benefits

• Make the Board Ready on Sustainability and ESG Concepts and Knowledge
• Help the understand the various Frameworks like GRI, BRSR, etc.
• Learn What and How of Materiality Assessment
• Learn how to incorporate Sustainability in the organization Strategy and Policies
• Learn about the Sustainability Governance and Oversight
• How to change the culture of the organization to adopt Sustainability
• Understand about how to become Independent Director Qualification Exam in India (Optional)
• Get ESG Director’s Proficiency Kit
• 24-month complementary listing on Open ESG Proficient Director Database

Who Should Attend? 

• Board Memebers
• CEOs/CFOs/CSs/CSOs
• Leadership Team
• Senior Management
• Anyone who aspires to be a director and is curious about sustainability

Modules

• ESG Proficient Business – Role of Leadership and Impact of Strategy
• Sustainability Policy & Strategy Analysis
• Materiality Mapping, Stakeholder Mapping and Practitioner’s Scorecard
• Industry Sustainability Report Analysis
• Sustainability Governance and Oversight
• Integrating ESG Practice in Organization Culture
• Upcoming ESG Regulations impacting business globally
• Preparing for Independent Director Qualification Exams (India)

Mode

Virtual Instructor Led / Physical

Timeframe

3 days / 6 virtual session of 4 hours each

Brief About The Program

Sustainability Reporting is becoming a mandate for in different countries from the Government, Regulatory Authorities and Financial Institutes. It is also becoming prevalent that organizations are taken to court for false claims in their published reports.

This course will help sustainability practitioners to understand the nuances of Reporting as per the various standards and also help them to be ready to do their own reporting or even be prepared with the information for the external consultant to prepare the report. It is also important for the Leadership and Senior Managers to be able to analyze the report created by consultants for usability and take necessary improvement to achieve the targets set.

Key Benefits

• Will help the participant to effectively analyze Sustainability report and gain the capability evaluate the Business Usability of the report and advice companies on its integration into the organization culture
• Be able to write reports that meet the framework requirements and the requirements of investors and regulators, with respect to their transparency and reliability

Who Should Attend?

• CSOs, CFOs, CSs
• Leadership Team
• Sustainability Practitioners
• Aspiring Report Consultants
• Anyone curious to gain knowledge on Sustainability Reporting

Modules

• Key concepts of Climate Change and Sustainability
• Sustainability Report: Introduction and familiarization
• Materiality Mapping
• Stakeholder Mapping
• Practitioner’s Scorecard
• Stakeholder Communication
• Sustainability Reporting Assurance
• Integrating Sustainability Reporting within Organization culture & Participant presentation on Report Assurance

Mode

Virtual Instructor Led / Physical

Timeframe

3-4 days / 6-8 virtual session of 4 hours each

Brief About The Program

The capacity of a business to deal with supply chain and procurement challenges, adapt to change and continue to develop requires qualified professionals. Procurement and Supply chain professionals contribute decisively to the organization’s resilience that builds the ability to meet the needs of today and develop strong practices to continue to meet the needs of the business in the future. This essentially implies that they need to bear the capability to build strong, resilient yet adaptable Sustainability practices.

The Scope 3 emission is all about Supply Chain and organizations need to be responsible for the Scope 3 emission.

Key Benefits

• Knowledge on the Supply Chain and Procurement from Sustainability Point of view
• Get Sustainability Procurement and Supply Chain Practitioner Kit consisting of
  • Sample Contracts
  • Sample Vendor ESG Evaluation Framework
  • Sample Vendor ESG Selection Framework
  • Guidelines on Vendor ESG Evaluation Process
  • Sample ESG evaluation framework for Supply Chain Function
  • Sample Procurement and Supply Chain ESG KPIs and Data Framework
• Get to be in the Open Certified Sustainability Procurement and Supply Chain Practitioner Listing

Who Should Attend?

• Supply Chain Professionals
• Procurement Professionals

Modules

• Introduction to Sustainability and key concepts
• Understanding and decoding a company’s
• Sustainability Agenda relation to Procurement & Supply chain
• Planning and integrating sustainability into the procurement process
• Integrating third party (Vendor) ESG – Evaluating and measuring performance 
• Integrating Sustainability into Supply Chain Operations – Evaluating and measuring performance
• ISO 20400 Guidelines for Sustainable Procurement
• GHG Emissions Scope 1,2&3
• Using procurement analytics to analyse and reduce Scope 2&3 carbon emissions
• Measuring and Reporting Sustainable Procurement

Mode

Virtual Instructor Led / Physical

Timeframe

3 days / 6 virtual session of 4 hours each

Brief About The Program

Sustainability is important because it seeks to address the ongoing ecological, social and economic challenges facing humanity. It involves balancing the needs of the present generation with the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. By promoting sustainable practices and policies, we can ensure that natural resources are used in a responsible manner, limit the negative impact of human activities on the environment, and create a more equitable and stable society for all. Ultimately, sustainability is about creating a better and more secure future for ourselves and future generations.

Key Benefits

• Increased knowledge and understanding of sustainability & ESG
• Development of sustainable habits
• Professional Development
• Improved reputation

Who should attend?

Anyone who wants understand basics of Sustainability practice

Modules

1. Sustainability
   • What is sustainability?
   • Sustainability v/s ESG
   • How Sustainability helps various stakeholders in Business?
2. SDG Goals
   • What are 17 SDG Goals?
   • How can organizations implement SDG goals?
3. Paris Agreement
   • Key points of Paris Agreement
   • How does the Paris Agreement relate to 17 SDG goals?
4. Sustainable Finance
   • What is sustainable Finance?
   • How is Sustainable Finance important for organizations?
5. GHG Protocol
   • What is GHG protocol?
   • What are the different emission scopes?
   • How is GHG related to SDG goals?
   • How can organizations reduce different scopes of emission?
6. Circular Economy
   • What is Circular Economy?
   • How can organizations implement circular economy?

Mode

Virtual Instructor Led / Physical

Timeframe

4 hours