Fast-track your sustainability strategy and skills
Move your company further faster by taking action on today’s most pressing sustainability challenges with the Academy, the premier online learning platform from the UN Global Compact.
About the Academy
The Academy is the UN Global Compact’s digital learning platform helping business leaders develop practical skills to tackle sustainability challenges and drive impact aligned with the SDGs and the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact.
Featuring accessible webinars, on-demand courses, and case examples available anytime and in multiple languages, the Academy provides insights and best practices to support businesses at every stage of their sustainability journey. Participants can also earn certificates to showcase their achievements.
Courses
Business & Human Rights
Decent work in global supply chains
▪ How procurement decisions can advance decent work in supply chains
30 mins | Advanced
▪ Advancing decent work in business through the UN Global Compact Labour Principles
3 hr 30 mins | Foundational
▪ Eliminating harassment and violence in the world of work
coming soon
▪ EU forced labour regulation
1 hr | Advanced
▪ How can business build sustainable supply chains?
1 hr | Advanced
Living wage
▪ Living Wage Deep Dive
1 hr 30 mins | Foundational
Business and human rights
▪ Business and human rights: how companies can operationalise the UN Guiding Principles
2 hrs | Foundational
▪ Deepening human rights due diligence
2 hrs | Advanced
▪ Human rights and artificial intelligence (AI)
NEW! | coming soon
▪ Eliminating harassment and violence in the world of work
coming soon
▪ EU forced labour regulation
1 hr | Advanced
▪ How can business build sustainable supply chains?
1 hr | Advanced
“The Academy platform is extremely easy and user-friendly to use and offers a variety in the delivery of information to make the learning journey engaging.”
Environment & Climate Change
Science-based targets
▪ Setting science-based targets
30 mins | Foundational
▪ The Net-Zero Standard
20 mins | Foundational
▪ SBT Industry-Specific Exchange Series
6 hrs 45 mins | Advanced
Biodiversity
▪ Biodiversity fundamentals: The business case for action
1 hr | Foundational
▪ Managing nature-related risks and opportunities with TNFD
1 hr | Foundational
Climate health
▪ Developing an integrated health, environment and climate strategy for your company
20 mins | Foundational
▪ Climate-proofing your business: strategy planning for adaptation
1 hr 30 mins | Foundational
▪ Corporate action to advance a just transition
1 hr 30 mins | Advanced
Water
▪ How to assess and boost your corporate water resilience
1 hr 15 min | Foundational
▪ Delivering on net-positive water impact for growth and resilience
1 hr | Advanced
▪ The value of water for business
1 hr 30 mins | Foundational
▪ Improving long-term water security
45 mins | Advanced
▪ Understanding water resilience to safeguard and accelerate business
1 hr 30 mins | Advanced
▪ The road to Net Positive Water Impact: setting ambitions for business
1 hr 30 mins | Foundational
Ocean
▪ How companies can ensure a healthy and productive ocean
30 mins | Foundational
▪ Implementing a principles-based approach to sustainable ocean business
45 mins | Foundational
Sustainability Governance
Sustainable Development Goals
Anti-corruption
▪ Taking collective action for anti-corruption
20 mins | Advanced
▪ Assessing the risk of corruption to your business
1 hr 30 mins | Advanced
▪ Mitigating corruption risks to your business: developing anti-corruption policies and strategies
1 hr 30 mins | Advanced
▪ The gender dimensions of business integrity
1 hr 30 mins | Advanced
▪ Implementing anti-corruption programmes in your company
1 hr 30 mins | Foundational
▪ Measuring anti-corruption compliance in your company
1 hr 30 mins | Foundational
▪ Whistle-blower protection in business
1 hr 30 mins | Foundational
SDG leadership
▪ How to understand and take action on the global goals
30 mins | Foundational
▪ How to understand and prioritize ambitious action for the SDGs
1 hr 40 mins | Advanced
▪ Disruptive technologies
2 hrs | Foundational
▪ How to set and integrate ambitious goals into your company
1 hr 30 mins | Foundational
▪ Becoming a business leader on the global goals
1 hr | Advanced
▪ Forward Faster target setting masterclass
| coming soon
▪ How will Gen AI change sustainable business?
1 hr | Foundational
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG leadership
▪ How to understand and take action on the global goals
30 mins | Foundational
▪ How to understand and prioritize ambitious action for the SDGs
1 hr 40 mins | Advanced
▪ Disruptive technologies
2 hrs | Foundational
▪ How to set and integrate ambitious goals into your company
1 hr 30 mins | Foundational
▪ Becoming a business leader on the global goals
1 hr | Advanced
▪ Forward Faster target setting masterclass
| coming soon
▪ How will Gen AI change sustainable business?
1 hr | Foundational
SMEs
SMEs and SDGs
▪ Future-proofing your small and medium-sized enterprise
1 hr | Foundational
▪ How being more sustainable makes you more resilient
30 mins | Foundational
▪ The what and how of sustainable design for SMEs
30 mins | Advanced
▪ How to finance your sustainability strategy
30 mins | Advanced
“A crisp and brilliant introduction to sustainable development goals and how the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact can help companies prioritise actions aligned to these.”
Regional sessions
▪ Securing finance to unlock sustainability opportunities
| Coming soon
▪ Practical interventions to reduce your GHG emissions
| Coming soon
▪ Navigating the evolving landscape of sustainability reporting
| Coming soon
Forward Faster
Water
▪ FF Water Resilience Information Session
1 hr | Advanced
▪ Introduction to Forward Faster: Water Resilience
6 mins | Foundational
Gender equality
▪ FF Gender Equality Information Session
6 mins | Foundational
▪ Introduction to Forward Faster: Gender Equality
1 hr | Foundational
Climate action
▪ FF Climate Action Information Session
6 mins | Foundational
▪ Introduction to Forward Faster: Climate Action
1 hr | Foundational
Sustainable finance
▪ FF Sustainable Finance Information Session
1 hr | Foundational
▪ Introduction to Forward Faster: Sustainable Finance (part 1)
| coming soon
▪ Introduction to Forward Faster: Sustainable Finance (part 2)
| coming soon
Living wage
▪ FF Living Wage Information Session
6 mins | Foundational
▪ Introduction to Forward Faster: Living Wage
1 hr | Foundational
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