IEMA Environmental Sustainability Skills for Managers Course

The Environmental Sustainability Skills for Managers course aims to provide supervisors and managers with a strategic and operational overview of environmental sustainability as it affects their specific industry and work area.

The course covers the understanding of the strategic opportunities and constraints that
environmental sustainability presents organisations; the importance of resource efficiency; the impact of environmental sustainability across the value chain; the impacts of pollution, prevention, control and environmental legislation in organisations; and how employees support environmental sustainability.


1. The Learner will have knowledge and understanding of the main environmental and economic risks and opportunities
2. The Learner will have knowledge and understanding of compliance obligations and business drivers for change

3. The Learner will have knowledge and understanding of the main potential impacts on environment and sustainability

4. The Learner will have knowledge and understanding of how to improve environmental performance

5. The Learner will evaluate drivers for change and barriers

6. The Learner will apply knowledge and understanding to baselines data to monitor and improve performance
7. The Learner will apply knowledge of environmental sustainability across the value chain

8. The Learner will demonstrate the importance of implementing resource efficiency

9. The Learner will demonstrate how employees can improve environmental performance