At the end of this Training course you will:

• Learn to drive sustainable growth and accelerate climate-positive action. Reflect on opportunities for collaboration as a key part to doing business in the climate emergency as you gain a firm understanding of the crisis from a systems level and how it's related to other global challenges. 
• While exploring the impact and implications of climate change, you’ll be asked to reimagine the future and how your business can address sustainability concerns. 
• Learn how to leverage new opportunities through alternative economic frameworks. 
• Examine the way your business can achieve climate goals, and emerge from the programme with a plan to drive organisational change and shape a new regenerative future.

Climate Emergency Programme is ideal for:

• Senior managers and executives across all industries and business areas.
• Professionals from finance, manufacturing, engineering, and oil and gas, looking to understand the business implications of climate change, identify opportunities for innovation, and enhance their competitive advantage. 
• Sustainability, social, and environmental professionals who want to improve their ability to collaborate in order to action change and contribute towards circular economy growth. 

Day 1

Tackle the problem: The climate emergency.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the role of business in the climate emergency.
• Outline the importance of accessing relevant and up-to-date climate data.
• Articulate your role in your system in relation to the climate emergency.
• Identify ways to prioritise personal resilience while confronting the climate emergency.

Day 2

Experience the future: Climate risks and opportunities.

• Review the role of business in the climate emergency.
• Examine the current state of business to determine climate-related risks and opportunities in your industry.
• Interpret the implications of the climate emergency for the future.
• Use scenario planning to understand the potential future for your system and how you might put this analysis into practice today.

Day 3

Reimagine the future: Frameworks for a new economic system.

• Explain the importance of considering a range of approaches to changing economic systems.
• Determine the potential impact of new economic frameworks on definitions of growth in your industry.
• Articulate the limitations of a linear economy in facilitating sustainable growth.
• Justify which elements of new economic frameworks you would use to achieve goals in your organisation.

Day 4

Address the emergency: Business model innovation.

• Demonstrate an understanding of how and where systems are changing, and the impact these changes have on your business model.
• Review how organisations are transforming their business models today.
• Determine opportunities for innovation in your organisation based on your understanding of the business model transformation others are undertaking.
• Apply an experimental approach to business model transformation.
• Recommend how your organisation could adopt new business practices as part of transforming its business model.

Day 5

Drive collective action: Collaboration.

• Articulate the importance of building collaborative projects and relationships for your organisation as you address the climate emergency.
• Investigate the different types of stakeholders your organisation may need to collaborate with.
• Recommend how to communicate with a collaborator in a particular scenario.
• Shape the future: Plan for climate action.
• Deduce the change process your organisation may need to undertake to address the climate emergency.
• Catalyse others to co-create a change plan.
• Compile a customised change plan to address the climate emergency.

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.