Competitiveness Through Enterprise Sustainability

Course

Semi-facilitated e-learning

UN Partner

International Trade Center

Length: 2 weeks
Effort: 3-5 hours in total
Level: Intermediate
Language: English
Region: World
Certificate: Yes
Price: Free

This course introduces the reasons for which environmental, social and economic sustainability is important to a small enterprise.

Sustainable Development Goals: Responsible consumption and production; Climate action
Subject: Social economy
Keywords: competitiveness; corporate sustainability; sustainability

About this course

This course highlights both the short and long-term benefits of sustainability and introduces industry best practices in dealing with the challenges inherent in adopting them, with a focus on examples of enterprises which have successfully benefited from introducing sustainable measures in their business activities.

Time required: 4 hours of study over 2 weeks.

Target audience

MSME and SME Managers, Business Support Organization staff, the general public.

Learning objectives

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

Associate the importance of sustainability to business success;
Identify ways in which an enterprise can reduce its negative impact on the environment;
Identify ways in which an enterprise can improve its social responsibility; and
Complete a basic enterprise sustainability assessment.