Sustainable Earth Academy for Small Business

$199

Total certificate cost

Online - self-paced

Learning modality

20 Hours to complete

10 courses

Overview

This updated course explores the latest changes to CDP’s integrated Corporate Questionnaire, now covering climate, water, and forests, through brief video lessons. Developed by Arizona State University’s College of Global Futures in partnership with Environ Energy, the course helps professionals navigate CDP’s global disclosure system with clarity and purpose. You'll gain practical skills to evaluate environmental impacts, report effectively, and improve your CDP score. Learn how governance, risk assessment, and emissions data can drive business value through improved transparency and strategy. Whether you're new to CDP or looking to enhance your current disclosures, this course turns environmental data into actionable insights for a sustainable future.

About this course

Sustainable Earth offers a variety of courses to help you and your organization embrace sustainable business practices, from circular economy, supply chains, reporting, greenhouse gas management, and more. Here is a description of each course in the series:

  • Fundamentals of Organizational Sustainability: In this course, you will learn the foundational sustainability concepts that are essential to organizations operating in today’s dynamic economic, environmental, and social conditions.
  • Fundamentals of Circular Economy: In this course, you will gain the knowledge and tools needed to begin to implement circular economy thinking into your business or organization.
  • Fundamentals of Sustainable Supply Chains: In this course, you will learn how can supply chain management, sustainability, and social responsibility work together to benefit companies.
  • Fundamentals of ESG Reporting: In this course, you will learn how organizations can begin to report on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance.
  • Fundamentals of GRI Reporting: In this course, you will learn the reasons why organizations report on their sustainability impacts and the core components of the GRI Standards.
  • Fundamentals of Greenhouse Gas Accounting: In this course, you will learn how organizations can begin to measure and manage their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
  • Fundamentals of CDP Reporting: In this course, you will learn the reasons why organizations report on their sustainability impacts and the business case for disclosing CDP.
  • Project-level Greenhouse Gas Accounting: In this course, you will learn the key GHG accounting concepts and frameworks that relate to project-level accounting.
  • Small Business Sustainability Tactics: In this course, you will learn a variety of sustainability tactics and strategies to help move your small business forward.
  • Small Business Sustainability Outsourcing: In this course, you will learn best practices for utilizing external resources to support your small business sustainability plan. 

Courses within certificate

This course provides an introduction to ESG reporting through brief video lessons. ESG reporting is key to understanding how organizations can report and improve on their environmental, social, and governance performance. Environmental, social, and governance (also known as ESG) is an umbrella term for organizational reporting on financial and non-financial sustainability metrics and indicators. This course provides an excellent overview of the basics of ESG reporting to help you get started with first or next steps in ESG reporting. Through this course, you will learn the building blocks of ESG reporting.

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