Descriptif
Find out how companies can take action to tackle climate change and understand the related risks and opportunities.
Objectifs pédagogiques
This course aims to give students a comprehensive overview of the topic of climate change in the corporate sector. Students will learn:
- To what extent bold climate action from the private sector is a necessary condition to limit global warming below +1.5°C/+2°C
- How companies can assess their climate impact through robust carbon footprint assessment methodologies (GHG Protocol, ISO14064, Bilan Carbone, etc.)
- Why and how companies should set emissions reduction targets in line with climate science, and establish inclusive and ambitious action plans to respect these trajectories
- How companies can reinvent their business models in order to maximize their compatibility with a low-carbon economy
- How companies can act beyond their own value chain to boost the emergence of a net-zero global system
- What classical “greenwashing” practices companies should avoid, and how to be vigilant as a company employee, consumer or citizen
- What power and responsibilities individuals have towards the climate emergency
18 heures en présentiel
Diplôme(s) concerné(s)
UE de rattachement
- FNS-M08_SASI : SASI - Sustainability and social innovation
Pour les étudiants du diplôme MS Forêt, nature et société - Management international
Basics about climate change causes and impacts.
Format des notes
Numérique sur 20Pour les étudiants du diplôme MS Forêt, nature et société - Management international
Vos modalités d'acquisition :
Through a paper (in group of 3-4 people)
Le coefficient de l'UE est : 3
Programme détaillé
- Introduction on energy and climate. Understanding “carbon neutrality” as defined by climate science. The need to act boldly to limit global warming to acceptable levels. Role of the corporate sector.
- Topics: IPCC, climate science, Paris Agreement, Stratégie Nationale Bas Carbone, regulation, Loi de Transition Énergétique
- Assessing a company’s impact on climate: tools, database and methodology. Case study.
- Topics: carbon footprint, GHG Protocol, Bilan Carbone, CDP
- Setting ambitious targets and performing action plans
- Topics: carbon budget, Science-based Targets, climate, governance, metrics, ADEME, ACT
- Changing the paradigm: limiting climate-related risks and creating business opportunities in a low-carbon economy
- Topics: low-carbon business models, avoided emissions, low-carbon products and services, TCFD, climate strategy, scenario analysis, CDP
- Acting beyond the value chain: how companies can contribute to net zero
- Topics: net zero, carbon neutrality, offsetting, removals, voluntary carbon market, carbon credits, Label Bas Carbone
- Greenwashing, or how to be vigilant as a citizen, consumer and company
- Companies, the State, individuals: what power and what responsibilities?
- Topics: doing your “fair share” for the climate, levers at individual scale, what “individual responsibility” can mean in a systemic problem
