The Climate School, the e-learning arm of sustainable insurance and consulting leader AXA Climate, has announced a new 10-syllabus curriculum specially created to aid in decarbonising the global economy. This is in partnership with specialist global sustainability company Blunomy.

 

The climate emergency is real, now is the time for action, after the time for commitments. Decarbonisation pathways will be different from one sector to another, it is critical to understand the carbon reduction potentials of each sector to accelerate their change. 

 

Through the Net Zero School training, knowledge workers across services companies can understand the decarbonisation challenges of some of the most CO2 intensive sectors including oil and gas, power, agri-food, road transportation and cement.

 

Specifically curated

The curriculum has been specifically curated to help professional services companies understand the carbon footprint of the major industries they work with, and more importantly the actionable decarbonisation levers. 

 

Candidates for taking Net Zero School include regulators, financial institutions, insurance companies and management consultancies, and other services providers.

 

Teams completing Net Zero School will:

·Fully understand what’s at stake and why the sector their clients work in needs to decarbonise (including climate risks)

 

·Appreciate how the different economic sector can transition (technology, business models),

 

·Get examples on transition strategies corporate market players could adopt to build resilient, but fully sustainable, business models.

 

With interactive courses, The Net Zero School mixes theoretical concepts with concrete examples of decarbonisation issues of the studied sector. It details the opportunities of the transition, the current obstacles, and takes examples of companies that are front runners or those that are lagging. Finally, the Net Zero examines the good practices but also the areas where it will be more difficult to decarbonise. The objective of this training is to give companies the right tools to better understand the transition of each sector to help their entire value chain to decarbonise. 

 

Drawing on a range of experts

Net Zero School has been created by multiple experts from AXA Climate, the Climate School, and specialist global sustainability company, Blunomy.

 

AXA Climate School President, Antoine Poincaré says: "The demand first came from our clients. With our first training offer (the Climate School), we were talking about sustainable transformation "internally" but many players, especially financial players, needed to understand the trends of sustainable transformation of their clients, i.e., of the whole economy. The task was immense, which is why we felt it was necessary to join forces with Blunomy, which has been working on various sectors of the real economy for years. The result is interesting because it is very concrete. We answer questions such as: are oil extraction professionals well placed to work in offshore wind? Which players in the agri-food industry can invest in biomass energy production?"

 

Inès Galichon, Partner at Blunomy says: “Blunomy teams have now accumulated an enormous amount of expertise on the levers and roadmaps that lead to successful decarbonisation across many key sectors. Transferring that knowledge is critical and contributes to our mission to massively accelerate the transition to a Greener, common future for humanity, so we are delighted to work with a true educational pioneer in this space, AXA Climate.

 

“This product is the first result of ongoing and deep collaboration between two companies that share the same goal: we hope it will be useful to professionals in multiple sectors, and we look forward to continuously developing and extending it together.”-- TradeArabia News Service