Living and Working Sustainably

Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development. They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.

Report of the United Nations conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 Achieving sustainability may be the greatest challenge of the 21st century. Yet organisations have difficulty in turning rhetoric into reality. Many lack the systems, tools and skills to implement fully their good intentions, and to report and evaluate their performance.

This course provides guidance, tools, links and case studies to help you integrate sustainability into your organisation's decision making. It also provides a framework to enable organisations to report on their performance in a more consistent manner.

This diagram summarises the strategic approach to embedding sustainability very simply:

Identifying key issues and drivers
- Why is embedding sustainability important to my organisation?
- What are the internal and external drivers?
- What are my organisation's material relevant sustainability issues?

Develop strategy
- What does good practice look like for each material issue?
- What broad strategies can be implemented to achieve this?

Establish governance and accountability
- Who does what to deliver these broad strategies per material issue?

Set targets and action plan
- Where do we want to be in 'x' number of years?
- What concrete actors do we need to achieve the targets?

Which of our existing initiatives can we include to the action plan to help deliver our targets?
- Monitor - How have we performed so far?
- Report and evaluate - Are our processes working?

Developing a Personal Action Plan
- Your role within the sustainability environment
- Personal Sustainability touch points
- Committing to action and to change

(1) 4 to 5 February 2009 ► Register for this run
(2) 21 to 22 April 200 ► Register for this run
Time: 9.00am - 5.00pm
Venue: NTU@one-north campus, Executive Centre
Fee: Standard: SGD$590.00 NTU Alumni: SGD$472.00 Group (3 & above): SGD$531.00

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