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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainability-consulting
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课程名称：可持续发展咨询 概述：可持续发展咨询将探讨帮助个人、企业、政府及其他组织实现可持续发展目标的技术与职业。学生将学习可持续发展顾问使用的核心概念和工具（包括生命周期分析）。课程还将批判性地审视可持续发展顾问的常见实践，包括环境、社会及治理（ESG）、碳足迹计算以及LEED及其他可持续发展标准的角色。 课程大纲： 1. **课程导览** 描述：熟悉课程内容、同学以及学习环境，学习课程所需的技术技能。 2. **模块 1：简介** 描述：介绍可持续发展咨询领域及生命周期思维的核心理念。可持续发展顾问与组织合作，帮助其提升可持续发展表现或验证该表现，涉及可持续评估、战略规划及实施可持续发展方案。 3. **模块 2：生命周期评估** 描述：继续讨论生命周期评估（LCA），了解顾问如何解释LCA结果，包括识别重大库存和影响结果、评估结果可靠性及提出结论与建议，案例分析将从圣诞树开始。 4. **模块 3：社会可持续性** 描述：探讨环境、社会和治理（ESG）标准用于评估投资或商业实践的可持续性及伦理影响。随着监管者、投资者和顾客对企业影响的关注加剧，ESG的重要性日益提高，但ESG的评级方式及改善途径却存在争议。 5. **模块 4：可持续性认证** 描述：可持续性认证对于许多公司而言是雇佣可持续性顾问服务的重要价值部分，认证能帮助公司向利益相关者（客户、员工、监管者及同行）传递正确消息。优秀的顾问会对公司进行严谨评估，合作也可能在公司内部进行。 6. **课程总结** 描述：提供课程完成后的继续学习方向，并分享对课程体验的想法。 通过本课程，学生将了解可持续发展咨询的基本概念与实践，为未来在这一领域的发展打下基础。
Name:Course Orientation
Description:You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course.
Name:Module 1: Introduction
Description:This week we’ll be introducing the field of sustainability consulting and the key idea of life cycle thinking. A sustainability consultant works with organizations to help them improve their sustainability performance, or to certify that performance. This might mean making sustainability assessments –strategic planning, implementation of sustainability programs, or reporting on sustainability performance. These workers make these judgments using life cycle analysis to make quantitative, replicable determinations of environmental impact. All sustainability consultants either explicitly or implicitly use this technique in their work, and we’ll start the course by learning about this approach.
Name:Module 2: Life-Cycle Assessment
Description:This week we will be continuing our discussion of life-cycle assessment. This will enable us to see how consultants interpret LCA results: by identifying the significant inventory and impact results, evaluating the reliability and conditions of those results, and finally by stating their conclusions and recommendations. We’ll also begin to look at case studies - starting with Christmas trees!
Name:Module 3: Social Sustainability
Description:Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) refers to a set of criteria used to assess the sustainability and ethical impact of investments or business practices. ESG has become an increasingly important concept in recent years as more regulators, investors and customers have become more concerned about measuring the wider impacts of corporations. But the way ESG is rated is not without controversy - and nor are the ways in which companies improve their ESG scores. This week we will apply our life cycle thinking to understand what lots of consultants do, and why it might not always be making the world more sustainable.
Name:Module 4: Certifying Sustainability
Description:For many companies, sustainability certifications are a large part of the value in hiring the services of sustainability consultants. They provide a mark of approval that can help them send the right message to their various stakeholders - be they customers, employees, regulators, or even their peers. These certifications possibly even make the world more sustainable. Good consultants rigorously assess the companies they work with, and as we’ll see this week, their is a wide variety of settings in which these assessments take place. Sometimes sustainability workers even help companies from within.
Name:Course Conclusion
Description:You will find out where to go next after completing this course and be able to share any thoughts you have on this course experience.
Sustainability Consulting will look at the techniques and careers of people who aid individuals, companies, governments, and other organizations in their efforts to pursue sustainability goals. Students will learn core concepts and tools sustainability consultants use (including Life Cycle Analysis). The course will also critically examine common sustainability consultant practices, including ESG, footprinting, and the role of LEED and other sustainability standards.
