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Yale SOM Executive Education: Corporate Climate Change Risk Management

Move your business toward net-zero emissions. Develop the skills to conduct a climate change risk assessment for your business.

Move your business toward net-zero emissions. Develop the skills to conduct a climate change risk assessment for your business.

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6 weeks
6–8 hours per week
Starts Mar 19, 2025
Enroll by Mar 25, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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6 weeks
6–8 hours per week
Starts Mar 19, 2025
Enroll by Mar 25, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

Duration : 6 weeks (excluding orientation)

Global warming has caused an alarming rise in temperatures across the planet. To halt this exacerbation, the United Nations has called for all emissions to reach net-zero by 2050 — a feat that businesses can only achieve with credible actions.1

With a strong focus on the science behind climate change, the Corporate Climate Change Risk Management online program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education equips you with the skills and knowledge to move your business toward a net-zero future. Throughout this six-week program, you’ll take a look at some of the factors affecting the need for climate change risk management strategies in business, international and national climate policies, the political landscape, and legislation. Designed to provide you with practical takeaways, this program will help you implement carbon management plans to reduce your business’s carbon footprint.

Upon successful completion of this program, you’ll walk away with the ability to design and implement a climate change risk management strategy in your business.

1 United Nations (Nd). Accessed July 14, 2022.

This program is designed for leaders who are interested in developing a climate-conscious strategy for their company’s business practices. Professionals in any field will benefit from gaining an in-depth understanding of the theory and science behind climate change and its impact on business. It will also be beneficial for technical professionals who would like to link their practice to the world of business and prove the value of sustainability in the marketplace. Additionally, investment professionals tasked with delivering socially responsible investments will find value in this program. This program acts as a complement to the Yale SOM Executive Education Corporate Sustainability Management: Risk, Profit, and Purpose online program with more practical and advanced climate and environmentally focused risk management tools for business.

Course curriculum

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Adapt your business to succeed in the face of climate change as you work through the weekly modules of this online program.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Climate change and low-carbon transitions

Module 2: Climate-related financial risk

Module 3: Climate regulation

Module 4: Carbon footprint and handprint disclosures

Module 5: Implementing corporate climate risk management

Module 6: Carbon credits and voluntary markets

About the certificate

Get recognized for your knowledge when you earn an official certificate of participation from the Yale SOM Executive Education.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the program.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

88%

The percentage of executives who believe it’s possible to limit the worst impacts of climate change if immediate action is taken.

Deloitte (2022).

20%

The share of major companies who have 2030 goals that are in line with reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.

Race to Zero (Sep, 2021).

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