Corporate Sustainability & ESG Courses and Certifications

Sustainable Business Practices

16 ratings at Coursera

Integrate sustainability into business operations: make the business case to leadership, map and engage stakeholders, manage carbon, energy, water and waste, and build sustainable supply chains.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Advanced Strategies for Sustainable Business

Embed sustainability across business functions: align goals with strategy, set KPIs and targets, report transparently, and engage employees, stakeholders, and community partners.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Sustainable Digital Innovation

200 ratings at Coursera

Align business strategy with sustainability goals: integrate sustainability into management, industrial digitalization and value chains, and prepare your organization for transformation.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

IMD Business School for Management and Leadership

Sustainability for Business: ESG Fundamentals

189 ratings at Coursera

Learn to integrate ESG into business strategy: planetary boundaries, CO2 reduction across the value chain, mandatory ESG reporting, stakeholder management, and an AI-powered simulation game.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Capitals Coalition

Valuing nature and people to inform business decision-making

53 ratings at Coursera

Learn to integrate natural, social and human capital into business decisions: apply the Capitals Approach, scope a natural capital assessment, and measure and value impacts and dependencies.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

CU Boulder;  Siemens

Leading the Circular and Sustainable Business

108 ratings at Coursera

Build the business case for sustainability: sustainable supply chains, greenwashing and certifications, Triple Bottom Line accounting, ESG reporting with GRI and CSRD, and sustainability leadership.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

A Business Approach to Sustainable Landscape Restoration

103 ratings at Coursera

Learn to design business-driven landscape restoration: assess degraded ecosystems, value ecosystem services, apply the 4 returns framework, build partnerships, and use the business model and PPP canvases.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

London Business School

Business for Good: Fundamentals of Corporate Responsibility

98 ratings at Coursera

The key objective of this course is to reconceptualise critical global challenges as sustainable growth opportunities for your business and achieve positive environmental and social impact.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Saïd Business School

Foundations of Sustainability and ESG

96 ratings at Coursera

Learn the three pillars of sustainability and the ESG framework: environmental, social and governance factors, ESG metrics and ratings, and the growth of ESG investing.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

ESG Essentials: Sustainable Business Strategies

Build a foundational understanding of ESG: origins, standards and frameworks, environmental resource management, sustainable finance, social risks, and governance, through practical case studies.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Generative AI and ESG

32 ratings at Coursera

Apply generative AI to ESG practice: use prompt engineering, RAG, and fine-tuning to analyze ESG data and extract Scope 1-3 emissions and DEI metrics from sustainability reports.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Saïd Business School

The Business Case for ESG

25 ratings at Coursera

Analyse how ESG integration drives financial performance, risk management and competitive advantage, then compare major ESG reporting frameworks and evaluate the quality of corporate disclosures.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

Sustainable Business Strategies

11 ratings at Coursera

Learn the strategies businesses use to cut environmental impact: calculate carbon footprints, assess supply chain sustainability, apply ESG criteria to investment, and read sustainability reporting frameworks.

• Coursera
• 4 hours 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Sustainability and Stakeholders: Tensions and Balances

Learn to integrate corporate sustainability by balancing stakeholder tensions: apply stakeholder theory to customer, employee, investor, partner and societal relationships, and analyse a company of your choice.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Capitals Coalition

Transforming Business: Valuing social and human capital

Learn to measure and value social and human capital in business using the Social and Human Capital Protocol and the Assess-Commit-Transform-Disclose framework.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course