Corporate Climate Change Risk Management
Published: Program occurs multiple times each year. Visit the program page to learn more.
Description
The Corporate Climate Change Risk Management online program teaches leaders how to integrate climate-conscious strategies into their business practices. You’ll explore how factors such as international relations, legislation, and today’s political landscape impact climate change and an organization’s response to it. By the end of the six-week program, you’ll have the tools to help your business move toward a net-zero future.
Course Takeaways
- Learn how to measure scope emissions and analyze the carbon footprint of your business using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Tool.
- Review carbon pricing, carbon tax, carbon trading schemes, and carbon credits market.
- Gain carbon disclosure and carbon management skills to integrate climate change into your corporate strategy.
- Use the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures model to improve climate-related risk reporting procedures and guidelines within your business.
Meet the Instructors
Dr. Cort works at the intersection of sustainability and investor value. Over the course of 20 years, in consulting and academia, he has applied a scientific and economic lens to corporate social and environmental responsibility (or sustainability) in order to identify the tools, mechanisms, metrics and indicators that create the greatest value for investors, businesses and society. Todd has worked extensively with companies and investors across industrial sectors. His experience ranges from ‘on the ground’ implementation of sustainability programs to corporate level communication and investor strategy development. He has also worked extensively on integrated programs to meet regulatory requirements while promoting awareness and understanding of sustainability priorities through communications and engagement with communities, regulators, policy makers and internal stakeholders.
Todd has a courtesy appointment at the Yale School of the Environment. He serves as Faculty Co-Director for the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) and the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF). He serves on a variety of advisory boards including the JUST Capital Scientific Advisory Board and the PRIME Coalition Academic Advisory Committee and Merck Sustainability Advisory Committee. He is also currently Board Chair for Save the Sound, a regional environmental non-profit serving communities around Long Island Sound.
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