GSSR - GETTING STARTED WITH SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING by NTUC LearningHub

Course Overview

Sustainability reporting is an evolving process. This short but intensive course is aimed at providing you with the relevant knowledge and abilities to get started on sustainability reporting in your organisation, and to continuously review, update and improve upon the sustainability reporting process and sustainability report. This is an activity-based program and its primary objective is to get you to apply what you learn during the course, by developing a plan to implement sustainability reporting within your organisation. This is a synchronous course conducted fully online on Zoom.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, learners will be able to:

• Understand the concept of sustainability and sustainability development
• Understand the international developments and initiatives to promote sustainability reporting
• Understand the local developments and initiatives to promote sustainability reporting.
• Explore the various sustainability reporting and accounting frameworks and standards.
• Understand the components of a sustainability report.
• Explore the sustainability reporting governance structure & key stakeholders.
• Explore the various material environmental and social topics
• Understand how to conduct impact assessment.
• Understand how environmental or social issues are managed.
• Understand the different metrics and targets to drive sustainability (environment and social) performance.
• Understand how data is collected and analysed.
• Explore benchmarking of sustainability practices.

Course Outline

• Sustainability and sustainability Development
• Local and international developments in sustainability reporting
• Sustainability reporting and accounting frameworks and standards
• Components of a sustainability report
• Governance structure & key stakeholders of sustainability reporting
• Environmental and social material topics
• Conducting impact assessment
• Managing environmental or social issues
• Metrics & targets to drive sustainability
• Data collection and analysis
• Benchmarking of sustainability practices

Certificate Obtained and Conferred by

Upon meeting 100% attendance and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from NTUC LearningHub.