IEMA

The Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) is the professional membership body for everyone working in environment and sustainability, with over 20,000 members worldwide.

They support individuals and organisations in setting and achieving globally recognised standards for sustainable practice, in turn driving the development and uptake of sustainability skills. IEMA add value to their members by providing the knowledge, connections and recognition necessary to lead change within organisations at all levels.

About IEMA – What we do

As an IEMA approved centre we offer the following qualifications:

Foundation Certificate In Environmental Management

This five day course is provides learners with a globally recognised qualification that is the key to professional environmental knowledge and practice. The wide range of environmental, sustainability and governance principles covered ensures that learners appreciate and understand the breadth of the sustainability agenda, and the focus on specific management tools and skills provides learners with an introduction to practical application that they will need when working within this arena.

Business Benefits

• Supports staff to help your organisation cut costs, manage risk and win new work
• Enables the team to drive environmental performance and achieve sustainability goals
• Ensures staff are equipped to understand compliance requirements and carry out the right diligence checks
• Embeds the right skills to make your organisation resilient against growing climate change, weather, resource and energy threats
• Add a new dimension of organisational capability as staff gain new understanding of environmental management systems like ISO 14001
• Your team members will become an Associate Member of IEMA gaining access to a huge library of practical tools, guidance notes and updates that will enable them to keep their knowledge – and your organisation – current and compliant

Delegate Benefits

• Drives environmental understanding beyond traditional compliance-level tick boxing
• Learn about ‘bigger picture’ environmental issues and how they link to challenges organisations worldwide are facing
• Get to grips with how a recognised environmental system like ISO 14001 can be approached, implemented and bring business results
• Teaching is guided by a Learner workbook to support learning both in the classroom and back at work
• Benchmarked at Regulated Qualifications (RQF) Level 3
• Results in Associate Membership of IEMA and the internationally recognised AIEMA suffix
• Successful delegates are awarded an IEMA Foundation Certificate in Environmental Management

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Environmental Sustainability Skills for Managers

This 2 day course covers a wide range of environmental, sustainability and governance principles and will give learners an understanding of the breadth of the sustainability agenda, and the management tools and skills that they will need when working within this area.

Business Benefits

• Improves the environmental sustainability of your organisation
• Rapidly upskills your team and those who oversee operational objectives
• Improves environmental performance, efficiency and impact
• Gives your business an understanding of the strategic and operational implications environmental sustainability has on them

Delegate Benefit

• No prior environmental knowledge required
• Practical activities and workshops throughout
• Enable learners to evaluate drivers for change and barriers
• Apply knowledge and understanding to baseline data to monitor and improve performance
• Apply knowledge of environmental sustainability across the value chain
• Enable learners to demonstrate the importance of implementing resource efficiency
• Enable learners to demonstrate how employees can improve environmental performance
• Successful delegates are awarded an IEMA Environmental Sustainability for Managers certificate

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Environmental Sustainability Skills for the Workforce

This one day course is perfect for those working in any job role across all sectors, to ensure that environmental sustainability is embedded into all job roles of a company.

Business Benefits

• Reduces your organisations environmental impact
• Improves your organisations bottom line
• Ensures environmental sustainability is embedded in to all job roles of your company
• Gives your organisation a fundamental awareness of environment and sustainability issues

Delegate Benefits

• No prior environmental knowledge required
• Practical activities and workshops throughout
• Knowledge and understanding of the main environmental and economic risks and opportunities
• Knowledge and understanding of compliance obligations and business drivers for change
• Knowledge and understanding of the main potential impacts on environment and sustainability
• Knowledge and understanding of how to improve environmental performance
• Successful delegates are awarded an IEMA Environmental Sustainability for the Workforce certificate

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