Systems and Tools for Sustainability
Learning Objectives
• Build knowledge about the conceptual systems that help us understand sustainability processes
• Review the methodology for life cycle assessment and its application
• Become familiar with cradle to cradle design
• Understand the challenges of assessing and measuring sustainability
• Become familiar with the major corporate sustainability reporting systems and their uses—the Global Reporting Initiative, the Global Compact, the Carbon Disclosure Project, carbon footprinting, and water footprinting
• Become aware of the other UN indexes such as the Human Development Index and the Human Sustainability Index
• Build awareness of ways organizations show their transparency ...
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