Sustainability Foundations

Learn the essential skills and tools used by sustainability professionals. Build your expertise with real-world projects, aligned with industry best practices. No matter your background, this program empowers you to start your transition to a fulfilling green career.

  • Basics of Sustainability

    Learn to identify sustainability drivers and topics, how to measure, set targets and take action.

  • Hands-on

    Tackle real-world challenges with a company case study that brings sustainability concepts to life.

  • Career kick-start

    Get career guidance content from your instructors. Join our growing community of sustainability professionals.

What is the Sustainability Foundations course all about?

Launch your sustainability career with confidence. This course equips you with the essential skills and hands-on experience for a smooth transition. We understand the journey - we've made it ourselves! It's challenging, but incredibly rewarding to do good in your day-to-day job.

What you will get from this course:

  • Skills

    • Identifying corporate drivers
    • Calculating a footprint
    • Setting Targets & making an action plan
    • Implementation & reporting basics
  • Knowledge

    • Climate science
    • Planetary boundaries
    • Systems thinking
    • Doughnut economics
    • Greenhouse Gas Protocol
    • Science-Based Targets
  • Materials & support

    • Completion certificate
    • Sustainability project
    • Session slides
    • Community access

The course is aligned with the following standards and frameworks:

What our alumni are saying...

💚 "Thank you to Luisa and Toby! This course covers key topics and gives a sound understanding and foundation in order to switch to sustainability careers."

Laurène M. A. - Sales Manager at Thales

 💚 "The Curve offers an incredible introduction to the world of sustainability careers! Luisa and Toby managed to strike a balance between theory and practice. Highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to cut through the hype and get a better understanding of what sustainability really is."

Masha P. - Strategist at KLM

Launch Your Sustainability Career Now

We want to change the world by making sustainability knowledge accessible and affordable.

  • Sustainability Fundamentals Course

    349
    /year
    Free cancelation up to 15 days before the starting date
    • ✓
      2 hour live session & 1 hour self-study per week for 4 weeks
    • ✓
      Forever access to community of alumni
    • ✓
      Sustainability career kick-start advice
    • ✓
      Guidance for first sustainability project

Sustainability matters, regardless of financial barriers. If you cannot afford this course, please email hello@thecurve.world and we will find a solution.

More questions?
📅 Book a 20-minute free call with us to if this is the right course for you.

Build Your Sustainable Career Toolkit

  • Week 1

    Climate Science and Sustainability Drivers

    Learn the climate science knowledge needed to understand carbon footprints, targets and reports. Understand the different drivers that lead companies to take sustainability action and put it into practice with case studies.

  • Week 2

    Planetary Boundaries & Footprinting

    Discover the planetary boundaries to understand the environmental topics putting our planet at risk. Learn about how to make product and company footprints aligned with industry leading frameworks.

  • Week 3

    Systems Thinking, Targets & Action

    Understand how to use systems thinking to choose actions that lead to impactful change. Learn how companies can set science-based climate targets and make action plans to meet them.

  • Week 4

    Doughnut economics and Implementation

    Learn about doughnut economics to understand the non-environmental topics putting our society at risk. Discover frameworks on how to implement sustainability actions and report on progress made with our reporting cheat-sheet.

  • project

    Sustainability Strategy Project

    In parallel to the course, you will be developing your first corporate sustainability project from beginning to end. Get ready to push yourself, its not going to be easy!

  • Careers

    Sustainability careers

    Discover a variety of sustainability roles, the companies leading the charge in different sectors, and gain industry insights and career tips from our sustainability experts.

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