Environment and Sustainable Development

Short course Global Environmental Policy Programme – Strategic Sustainability Leadership Program Executive Training 2020

GEPP trains on global sustainability dynamics, focusing on scientific knowledge, governance and negotiation. It empowers professionals with cutting-edge tools and skills to anticipate, design, implement and monitor localized sustainability transition in private and public institutions.

Information

Period

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80 Teaching hours
GEPP: 10 days SSLP: 3-4 days

Language

English

Format

On-site – switch over to online-learning if required

Contact

Alexandre HEDJAZI
alexandrebabak.hedjazi(at)unige.ch
website

Location

Genève, Boston, Muscat, Baku

Registration

Contact coordinator
Modules can be followed individually

Fees:

GEPP.Exec: CHF 6800

SSLP: CHF 2000-CHF 4000

Contribution to the SDGs

Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

Objectives

  • Conceptualize sustainability from a holistic, interdisciplinary approach
  • Integrate key business sustainability tools and strategic methods within a company or organization
  • Support a long-term strategy based on economic, environment and societial commitments towards new dynamics of global governance
  • Empower participants with entrepreneurial thinking for problem-solving, negotiation techniques, and data scaling tools to trigger impact
  • Develop an international network of sustainability leaders

Audience

Motivated professional, changemaker from the public (Government, NGOs, IOs, etc.) and private sector who wish to better understand sustainability practices and global governance to make a positive impact on society and workplace.

Learning outcomes

Negotiations Skills and Consensus Building 

Understanding, Designing, Managing and Monitoring Innovative Strategies to Current and Future Sustainability Challenges 

Mastering Sustianbilty Data Collection, Governance, Analysis and Dissemination  

Circular economy and financial tools for sustainability

Global Governance dynamics and Tools

Sustainability Nexuses 

Integrated risk management 

Sustainability Ethnics and Trade-offs

Programme

GEPP.Exec and SSLP embrace the triple bottom line concept: mindful actions and behaviors embracing a global world-view to recognize the connection between environment, economy and society. GEPP takes place in Geneva, with modules on diagnostic method, design thinking, forecasting/backcasting potential challenges, strategic use of data in negotiations, climate, energy, cities, environmental, financial, and policy data. SSLP takes place internationaly, with modules on practical implementation of sustainability transitions depending on the specificities of the context.  
 

Director(s)

Dr. Alexandre HEDJAZI, Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva

Coordinator(s)

Dr. Alexandre HEDJAZI, University of Geneva and Dr. Matteo TARANTINO, University of Geneva

Partnership

UN Environment Program • Harvard University ZOFNASS Program

Admission criteria

Higher education diploma 

Professional experience 

Number of participants

Le nombre de participants est adapté à la pédagogie choisie.

Contribution to the SDGs

Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

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