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ESG and Community Engagement

Understand environmental, social and governance issues in operational terms, and plan engagement that listens and closes the loop.

What this course does not do

This is internal, framework-aligned learning. It does not make you or your organisation certified against any management or reporting standard: certification comes from an accredited certification body after audit, and assurance over reported figures comes from an independent assurance provider. Disclosure obligations differ by jurisdiction and sector, so your own legal and reporting teams remain the authority on what applies to you.

Professional electiveCoreProfessional Development
7 modules 36 lessons 3 enrolled ~9h of material
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ESG and Community Engagement

By the end

What you'll build

  • Explain what environmental, social and governance performance each cover, and identify what is material to your operation
  • Describe your operation's environmental impacts in operational terms such as energy, water, waste and land use
  • Map stakeholders, including groups that are usually left out, and plan an engagement with a feedback loop
  • Run or contribute to a listening session and close the loop on what was heard
  • Describe performance and targets accurately, avoiding claims the evidence does not support
  • Build ESG questions into procurement, project and supplier conversations

Curriculum

What's inside

7 modules · 36 lessons

  1. 01

    What ESG actually covers

    5 lessons
    • Environmental, social and governance: what sits inside each one
    • Why investors, regulators and neighbours ask different questions
    • Materiality: deciding what matters for your operation
    • Voluntary commitments compared with legal obligations
    • Three audiences, two lensesmatch pairs
  2. 02

    Environmental performance for non-specialists

    5 lessons
    • Reading your operation's footprint without a science degree
    • Energy, water and waste in operational terms
    • Emissions boundaries and why they change the number
    • Land use and biodiversity in plain terms
    • Units, arrows and boundariesfill blank
  3. 03

    Social performance and human rights

    5 lessons
    • Identifying who is affected by what your organisation does
    • Labour standards in your own operations and supply chain
    • Health, safety and community impacts
    • Grievance mechanisms that people will actually use
    • Build the list before you assesssequence order
  4. 04

    Community engagement in practice

    6 lessons
    • Planning an engagement that is not just an information session
    • Stakeholder mapping and who gets left out
    • Listening sessions and closing the loop on what you heard
    • Handling opposition, rumour and mistrust
    • Engaging indigenous and vulnerable groups with care
    • + 1 more lesson
  5. 05

    Governance, reporting and honest claims

    5 lessons
    • Describing performance without greenwashing
    • Baselines, data quality and targets you can verify
    • What common reporting frameworks ask organisations to disclose
    • Why assurance over the numbers is always external
    • What the number rests onmatch pairs
  6. 06

    Making it part of the job

    5 lessons
    • Turning a commitment into something a team can act on
    • Building ESG questions into procurement and project decisions
    • Tracking and reporting internally
    • Escalating a concern about a public claim
    • From commitment to Tuesdayfill blank
  7. 07

    Practice and check

    5 lessons
    • Terms people mix up in the same meetingmatch pairs
    • Designing an engagement that will hold upsequence order
    • Say what you actually meanfill blank
    • Extended hours and two hundred neighboursscenario
    • Course quizquiz

The shape of it

How this course works

Short lessons

36 lessons across 7 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.

Practice as you go

Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.

Progress you can see

Your progress is saved lesson by lesson, ready whenever you come back.

Ready when you are.

Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.

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