Global Energy Transition – Ecasitraining

ENERGY COURSES

About the Course

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This course will guide participants through the complexity and challenges of the global energy transition – shifting away from our dependence on fossil fuels to other sources of energy.

COURSE Contents

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This course will guide participants through the complexity and challenges of the global energy transition – shifting away from our dependence on fossil fuels to other sources of energy. The course will use a wide range of examples and case studies to develop and embed the concepts covered. On completion of this module, participants are expected to be able to:

Demonstrate critical understanding of the current energy transition and the application of renewable energy technologies as the sources of sustainable energy.
Demonstrate extensive awareness and understanding of the fundamentals, prospects, operation, and applications of the different renewable energy technologies while identifying the challenges around their integration into the electricity network and the role of energy storage systems in addressing this.
Demonstrate extensive and detailed awareness and understanding of the advanced technologies applied in the transportation of the renewably generated electricity and its integration to the electricity network.
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the economics of operating renewable-based electrical power systems.

TOPICS

An energy outlook: energy classification, statistics, consumption, environmental concerns, and the electricity market reform.
Energy transition and the renewable energy technologies fundamentals, operation, and challenges.
Transportation of the renewably generated electrical power.
Challenges to the integration of large-scale renewable energy generation into the electricity grid and strategies to offset them.
Role of Energy Storage.
Economics of operating renewable energy systems.
Guest Lecture by Energy Transition Industry Expert

Carbon Finance

About the Course

This course equips participants with the latest knowledge on how to evaluate the benefits of carbon management strategies, reduce your organisation’s carbon footprint and effectively engage in carbon trading. The course enables participants to work successfully in the renewables and carbon finance industry, both locally and internationally; and is suitable for those with both a basic and advanced understanding of the sector.

Course Contents

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Corporate emissions and decarbonisation strategies
Introduction to greenhouse gases (GHG) and climate change
ESG corporate principles and reporting
Corporate carbon emissions accounting
Types of emission-reduction commitments
Designing a corporate decarbonisation strategy
Carbon markets in Europe
Compliance carbon markets
Voluntary carbon markets
Opportunities in carbon trading and management strategies

Target Audience

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This course has been studied by participants from multinational organisations, small & medium enterprises, NGOs, educational establishments and governmental bodies.

The Course Includes:

Live Training with Q&A sessions
Course Materials
Networking with international participants
Exam for your Galileo Master Certificate
Certificate of Participation

Wind Energy Fundamentals: Renewable Energy Power Course

About the Course

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Wind Energy Fundamentals: Renewable Energy Power Course is a comprehensive video course where you can learn all about wind turbines and wind farm that are essential in working in the industry; from basic knowledge to how to design and manage wind farm projects.

I have handcrafted this course to allow students to acquire core fundamental knowledge on the wind turbines as well as how to apply it in the wind energy industry.

If you are currently or working towards being an energy engineer and wind turbines are something that you need to work with, you will find this course of great help to get the fundamental knowledge you need to kick start your professional career. If you are looking to work in this industry, this course will provide you with the fundamental knowledge that you need as well as a blueprint on what professions are needed in this industry.

So let’s get started! Let’s start your fulfilling journey and mark an important point of your phenomenal career!

What You Will Learn

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Understanding wind: We will be looking at the fundamentals of wind assessment
Wind turbine design: We will look at each of the components within the wind turbine in great detail and let you know what makes a good design
Siting: We will go through the general rules of the siting process
Reliability: We will look at how to determine the reliability and condition monitoring of wind turbines
Cost Assessment: How to Justify the Wind Farm Investment
Project Flow: What is the overall blueprint of a wind farm project?
Careers: What are the careers in the wind energy industry?

Target Audience

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Professionals who are interested in working in the Wind Industry (Not just engineers!)
People who just got a job in the wind industry and look for ways to get foundation knowledge
Students who are interested in the wind energy industry.

Sustainable Energy Systems

About the Course

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The free online course on Sustainable Energy Systems introduces you to the practice of using energy in a manner which fulfil the needs of the present without comprising the ability of future generations to fulfil their own needs. You will learn about the history of human energy use, challenges of continued reliance on fossil energy, the time scale for transition in energy use. You will also learn about environmental impacts of energy use, different energy sources based on environmental impact, and global capacity for non-renewable energy sources.

Furthermore, in this free online course on sustainable energy you will learn about the components of electricity, the link between electricity generation and carbon emissions, and sequestering carbon in geologic formations. Next, you will be learning about the sources of renewable energy, motivations for biofuels production, and types of catalytic and biocatalytic routes to produce biofuels and biochemicals.

Finally, you will learn about the thermodynamic principles of heat, types of geothermal systems, combined heat and power (CHP) as an alternative energy source, and Phase Change Materials (PCM) and their applications. This free online course will be of great interest to anyone interested in learning about sustainable energy systems. Enroll in this course today and learn about renewable energy, energy storage, energy generation as well as energy conversion.

Course Modules

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Sustainability and Environmental Challenges

In this module, you will be introduced to the history of human energy use, challenges of continued reliance on fossil energy, the time scale for transition in energy use, environmental impacts of energy use, different energy sources based on environmental impact, and global capacity for non-renewable energy sources.

Energy Sources, Carriers and Energy Uses

In this module, you will be introduced to the components of electricity, link between electricity generation and carbon emissions, sequestering carbon

Renewable Energy and Green Building Entrepreneurship

About the Course

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Welcome to the course where you learn to launch a new business in the energy, finance, real estate, design, engineering, or environmental sectors, while also helping you create positive environmental and human health impacts around the world.

We will integrate tools, trends, and tips from the field of entrepreneurship as a career path for making a difference and generating wealth in the renewable energy and green building sectors.

This is not a course about theory. Instead, we focus on real-world applications, step-by-step advice, and case studies.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

- Define key business opportunities, challenges, and potential solutions in the renewable energy and green building sectors.
- Analyze a successful business in renewable energy or green building.
- Identify 2 to 3 problems you might solve with either renewable energy or green building products or services.
- Plan for engaging with investors who might finance a new business.
- Take real-world first steps towards launching a new business or corporate initiative, by applying the 1-page business idea summary template and the Business Model Canvas to generating and refining your own new business ideas.

What you will learn from this course

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1. Get Inspired — The Power of 3: Entrepreneurship + Green Building + Renewable Energy

In this module, you will reviews case studies of three award-winning examples of renewable energy and green building, including onsite videos. We discuss how entrepreneurship is a path for solving big problems that matter. Lectures illustrate that entrepreneurship is NOT just about startups — it’s also about internal innovation at larger organizations. We also dive into some of the many business opportunities in renewable energy and green building.

2. Dive into Business — Real Opportunity. Real Challenges.

In this module, the instructor explains reasons for the significant growth in the renewable energy and green building sectors. We describe challenges and criticisms of both sectors, along with counterpoints and solutions. Finally, we discuss some of the struggles of entrepreneurship that must be overcome on this path of innovation and making positive impact at scale.

3. Blast Off — Moving from Ideas to Business Implementation

In this module, the instructor provides tangible steps for generating, refining, and launching new business ideas, including tips for website, logo, advisory boards, and using helpful tools, such as the popular and dynamic planning and strategy tool called the Business Model Canvas. We also discuss how to think about building a team, because without one, your startup is just another job, not an enterprise.

Sustainable Regional Principles, Planning and Transportation

About this Course

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This course will provide students with an introduction to sustainable regional principles, regional planning concepts and evaluate regional transportation system issues. This will be achieved through dynamic video lectures, practical case studies and the evaluation of practices for success. These will include discussions of the importance of the regional plan, how to engage community involvement, the importance of understanding a development transect and others. Strategies for growth priorities, along with consideration of available housing and food security will also be addressed. The concepts of providing a rural preserve and a rural reserve will be evaluated and mapping of key aspects of the region, such as neighborhoods and districts will be explained. Evaluation of regional transportation systems will be addressed including multi-mobile balance and building choices into the transportation system modes. The considerations for including a regional railway system along with accommodating user mobility and accessibility will be explored.

Course Objectives

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By the end of this course, you will be able to:

- Formulate the relationship between regional principles, smart growth, and sustainability.
- Evaluate growth priorities, community involvement, and scale of governance to achieve sustainable smart growth.
- Evaluate and explain regional mapping of rural preserves, rural reserves, neighborhoods, and districts as important tools in regional smart growth planning.
- Describe the implications of mapping corridors and regional centers to the overall smart growth planning at the regional level.

What you will learn from this course

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Sustainable Regional Fundamentals

This module will evaluate important regional issues that provide part of the foundation for a sustainable city. Regional principles will be evaluated in the context of developing a regional plan for sustainability.

Regional Planning Including Developmental Priorities

This module will address issues related to neighborhood strategies for protecting the natural context of the neighborhood as well as the importance of the different, opponents necessary to have a welcoming and functional neighborhood. Structures will also be evaluated as an important part of the character of the neighborhood.

Regional Transportation System and the Land – Use Connection

This module will evaluate sustainable options for the important physical, components for the transportation infrastructure within the region.

Case Study

This module will evaluate sustainable options for the important physical, components for the transportation infrastructure within global best practices.

Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM)

About The Course

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Some economists say that the GDP of a country is directly proportional to its energy consumption. The global population is predicted to reach nearly 10 billion people by 2050. This will put high requirements on the demand for energy globally, requirements for leaner and more efficient supply chains, a push towards a diversified energy portfolio mix, and stricter environmental and regulatory control. The impact would be a surge in need for specialists having deep domain knowledge within the energy space to help our precious blue planet face some of its biggest energy challenges and hopefully help us transition into the “new-energy” age.

The course is specifically designed to impart you with the fundamental concepts to thrive and succeed in banking, commodity, and energy companies and get your foot in the door of the world of ETRM – Energy Trading and Risk Management. I have attempted to simplify and break down complex concepts into easily digestible pieces to ensure maximum learning is transitioned to you, in an entertaining manner.

The focused cheat sheets will help you solidify your learning. The wide range of questions in the form of quizzes (multiple choice questions) will assist in consolidating your knowledge. Lastly, I talk to industry professionals from a wide range of backgrounds within the energy and upload them in the form of podcasts. You get access to those as well in this course.

Ideally, you should be able to complete it within 3 months. But since you will get lifetime access, feel free to take your own sweet time.

So come, join hands with me and let’s partner together to understand the intricacies and dynamics of the ETRM industry. I wish you all the luck in the world and hope you clear it in the first attempt 🙂

What you’ll learn

Module One: Energy Markets

Energy trading markets have developed rapidly since the growth of oil spot markets in the late 1970s. The liberalisation of natural gas and electricity markets across Europe has led to the emergence of gas and power trading markets in many countries. Coal trading has also developed in recent years and the trading of carbon emissions has grown following the creation of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
This section provides an introduction to the energy markets and the different commodities traded, setting a foundation for the later exploration of energy trading and Back Office issues.

Module Two: Commodity Trading

A range of different contracts and financial instruments have been developed for trading energy commodities. This module explains the key concepts of commodity trading and the features of different contract types. The specific contracts and trading markets for each energy market are described.

Module Three: Life Cycle of a Deal

This module puts energy trading operations into context, showing how they fit into the life cycle of a deal. It describes the structure of a trading organization and explains the roles and responsibilities of the various different functions. It follows the life cycle of a deal, describing the main tasks that are carried out at each stage and explaining the key operating principles. It also identifies common problems that can arise.

Module Four: Energy Market Risks

All business is characterized by risk. However, there are certain categories of risk that are particularly relevant to energy markets. This module considers the issues relating to risk, in particular the price risk driven by the inherent volatility of energy prices, and examines means of managing energy price risk. Risks such as delivery risk, operational risk, credit risk, and regulatory risk are also explored.

Module Five: Master Agreements

Master Agreements provide a vital role in managing the process of energy trading. By trading under a Master Agreement counterparty do not need make complicated legal and commercial arrangements for each deal, and can instead concentrate on the deal itself. The relevant Master Agreement covers a wide range of areas including credit, netting, confirmation and settlement to simplify and standardize the trading process.
This module provides an overview of the key principles and practices of Master Agreements, as well as providing examples from the main Master Agreements in use for energy trading.

Module Six: Energy Market Regulation

Over the past decade, the regulation of energy trading has become increasing complex and wide-ranging, with the introduction of REMIT, a regime tailored to (physical) electricity and gas trading, and the extension of a series of financial market regimes to the trading in commodity derivatives, emission allowances and emission allowance derivatives. Relevant regulations include MiFID II/MiFIR, EMIR, MAR/CSMAD, SFTR and the EU capital adequacy regime (IFR/IFD, currently under development and replacing CRR/CRD IV). Compliance with these regulations is a vital part of the modern energy trading business.
This module provides an overview of the key energy trading regulations and regulatory roles, as well as a guide to the potential impact of these regulations on energy trading operations. Key areas covered include the overall regulatory context, as well as the detailed application of REMIT, EMIR, MiFID II/MiFIR and MAR/CSMAD to European energy markets.

Module Seven: Back Office Tasks

The Back Office has a crucial role in maintaining the operations of an energy trading business. This module examines the principles of Back Office operations and concisely introduces the main tasks of Back Office staff. While different trading businesses have varying approaches to elements of Back Office operations, this module provides a simple explanation of the practicalities of common Back Office task and processes.

Who this course is for:

Business Analysts / Consultants involved in the ETRM industry and want to extend their knowledge
Financial Analysts – To understand the nature of the different financial risks involved within a commodity/energy firm.
Consultants & Analysts – To demonstrate the nuances of different commodity value chains and risks involved in your company
Junior Traders – Get early access to knowledge that the senior trader might not teach you yet!
Trade Support Staff – Learn what’s going on behind the screens and apply critical thinking to the trade processes and documentation.
Students – Currently pursuing or wish to pursue a career within the energy/commodity supply chain industry
Teachers – This will help you to demonstrate real life examples within the industry.
Energy Job Candidates – Use this course to quickly brush up your skill sets before your interview process

Law, Accounting and Finance for Energy Professionals

About the Course

A good manager or supervisor today must have a solid working knowledge of a broad range of management topics to make effective decisions. Three such topics are included in this course: law, accounting and finance. This offering will present the foundations of these key topics, in a practical manner, from the perspective of the petroleum industry. Upon its completion you will be able to read legal agreements and discuss financial statements in a whole new light and be able to apply them to project development or general corporate management. This program is a foundation course in our Essential Skills for the Oil & Gas Professionals Curriculum.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for those mid- to senior level managers and supervisors from all sectors of the oil and gas industry who wish to enhance their practical knowledge and understanding of three fundamental management areas: law, accounting and finance, that strongly influence their understanding of business and inform their organizational decision making. These set of core topics make this program a “must” for those whose major areas of formal studies was technology or other specialty fields.

Program Content

Legal Fundamentals and Applications of Law

Introduction to the Legal Process
Contract Law
Tort Law
Business Organizations
Tax Law and Application
Regulatory Law
Property Law

Fundamentals of Finance

Sources and Cost of Debt and Equity
Corporate and Project Financing
Typical Financing Term Sheets and Projections

Accounting and Finance

Accounting Fundamentals and Applications
Finance Fundamentals and Applications
Four Basic Financial Statements: Income, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow and Equity Statement
Building the Financial Statements of an Exploration Company and a Regulated Pipeline
Reading Financial Statements of Several Petroleum Companies

Law and Finance Project Simulation: Jasper

During this learning simulation game, teams of participants will perform the legal review and prepare a financing plan for its company to develop a potential underground gas storage facility in the Northeast region of the United States. They will be asked to review major service agreements, regulatory agency application documents, debt and equity financing agreements and prepare proforma financials for the project.

Energy Transition through 2050: Climate Science, Low Carbon Energy and Carbon Capture Strategies that Lead to Net-Zero

About the Course

This program responds to the most pressing challenge faced by energy suppliers and consumers today: The energy transition commitments that you, your company as well as governments must make to reduce carbon emissions to net-zero. During this program, you will learn the drivers of global warming, the extent of global energy demand growth through 2050, and the many low carbon strategies associated with energy demand, energy supply, and carbon capture to limit global warming.

You will also learn the various strategies that stakeholders, including government, corporations, advocates, and energy supply companies, have or could establish to stimulate action and achieve these important goals. Discussion will center around energy projections made through 2050, whose analysis is adopted and leads to a low-carbon future.

Who Should Attend

This program is ideal for those managers, executives, specialists, and government officials who wish to understand the science and impact of global warming and the actions that can be implemented to reduce their respective carbon footprint. You will return home knowing how to prepare a “rational plan” that you, your company and, perhaps, your government, can adopt as part of your contribution to an evolving energy transition.

Course Contents

The Science and Impact of Global Warming
Energy Transition Model, Learning Curves and 2020 Historical Demand-Supply Profile
Drivers of Energy Demand and Projected Energy Intensity
Projections of Energy Demand
Projections of Energy Supply from Fossil Fuels
Electrification, Power Supply, Hydrogen Fuels and the Growth of Renewables
Energy Transition within the World’s 10 Regions
Government and Public Policies to Stimulate Energy Transition
Energy Transition Strategies of Oil and Gas Companies
Contributions of Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization to Energy Transition
Bringing It All Together – Bridging the Gap

Leadership Essentials for Energy Professionals

Description

This two-week program is designed for mid-level to senior managers and supervisors from all sectors of the oil and gas industry who seek to enhance four essential critical management skills: Leadership, Negotiation, Business Communication and Strategic Planning. The program is taught by highly regarded instructors who have had broad and practical management experience in the international oil and gas industry or are specialists in the area in which they teach.

Who Should Attend

This program is designed specifically for mid-level to senior managers and supervisors as well as new leaders from all sectors of the energy industry who wish to enhance their understanding of leadership with an in-depth focus on five key competencies.

Program Overview

This two-week program is designed for rising managers and new leaders from all sectors of the energy industry who seek to enhance their understanding of leadership fundamentals and critical competencies, and then obtain in-depth understanding of five key leadership competencies: Practical Negotiation, Develop Talent Management, Effective Business Communication, Demonstrate Financial Acumen and Strategic Thinking. The program is taught by highly regarded instructors who have broad and practical leadership experience in the energy industry or are specialists in the area in which they teach.

Course Contents

1. Leadership Competencies, Talent Development and Essential Negotiation Skills

Leadership Fundamentals and Key Competencies

This session summarizes leadership fundamentals and the most compelling competencies required of today’s leaders. It includes such topics as: what do leaders do? leadership theory and styles; motivation and social motives, emotional intelligence, selfassessment, management versus leadership competencies; leadership competencies: leading self, leading others, leading the organization; leading stakeholders; leading effective power and influence, leading the organization, organizational climate, organizational climate survey, improving organizational climate, leading change. Case Studies Include: What Do Leaders Do? What Makes a Great Leader? Power is the Great Motivator.

Build Talent and Teams

One of the essential skills of a leader is to acquire, develop and retain high performing employees and teams. This session is devoted to the talent management processes, the recruiting and building of a competent workforce, the development of effective teams and the active role that the leader should play to assure that the HR function achieves the strategic personnel goals of the organization.

Essential Negotiation Skills: A Process for Positive Results

The essentials of positive negotiation: the process of positive negotiation developed at the Harvard Negotiation Workshop applied to a petroleum case study. The key steps you will take to successful negotiations are:

Step One: Discover Underlying Interests of the Parties
Step Two: Generate Options to a Negotiated Solution
Step Three: Identify and Use Independent Standards
Step Four: Deal with People Problems
Step Five: Generating Alternatives to a Negotiated Solution
Step Six: Reaching Closure

2. Effective Business Communication, Financial Acumen and Strategic Planning

Communicate Effectively and Influence Others

Setting a communication strategy: credibility, persuasion, and channel choice. Presentation structure: writing vs. presentations vs. meetings vs. one-to-one conversations; writing more effectively; making effective presentations; running efficient meetings; speaking effectively one-on-one. Case studies and workshop sessions.

Demonstrate Financial Acumen and Drive Performance

Financial statements measure the performance of the organization and a leader must have a solid understanding of them in order to make decisions that achieve the strategic and operational goals of the organization. Key topics include an introduction to the accounting process; four major financial reports: balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement and equity statement; how they impact each other, the major indices that are used to measure the performance of the company and the various financial decisions that impact performance of the organization. Session will include the analysis of an emerging company to show the impact of key decisions and the review of actual financial statements of energy companies.

Think Strategically

Major trends and drivers of change within the international oil and gas industry: anticipating the future throughout the oil and gas value chains. Latest approaches to strategic planning and its importance for setting company vision and goals; effective implementation of strategy; planning and implementation of the plan using the Balanced Scorecard. Historical structure of the international oil and gas industry. Examples of strategic planning by key international companies including Petrobras, Mobil Oil, and others.

Economic Risk Analysis for Petroleum Projects

About the Course

This online course presents the way and methodology to perform economic risk analysis for petroleum project and industrial project in general. How to use Monte-Carlo simulation technique by using Crystal ball from Oracle under excel sheet is presented. This technique can be use in risk assessment in general. The applied example for this simulation in this course will for oil and gas investment project to present the economic calculation and how to calculate the risk of the investment.

This example for real project and present this online course the economic factor and how we can obtain the risk for any project. this technique can be applied for any risk assessment as this simulation is a general technique. The business decision is based on this analysis as it is the core for any project feasibility study which is the first step for any project. The attendees will receive a free ebook about “Business Project Investment : Risk Assessment & Decision Making”.

This course presents an overview for business investment and economic, risk assessment tools by using MonteCarlo simulation, statistics and probabilities methods with modern and advanced technique to take the best decision.

This course with the ebook is considered as a guideline methodology of how to take decision of project investment. These tools, technique and tips of thinking is very important when start your investment project for small scale or mega projects. This online course with the ebook are one of a series of project management in easy way to try to mix between practical ways and theoretical background. As per this course, you can see the best methods of taking decision with simple economic parameters and also we answer the complicated questions is how the multinational companies take decision. This series of book is the main tips of project management and how to work in a project or to deal with the project if you provide a services or outsourcing to any project

What you’ll learn

To do economic evaluation by using MonteCarlo simulation technique
Example of using crystal ball software
Practical example of using a decision tree
The student will be capable to do an economic study with risk assessment for any types of project

Who this course is for:

Project engineers
Project managers
Project services and site managers
Senior managers and decision-makers
Petroleum engineer or any disciplines seek management level

Course Contents

Economic analysis
Statistics tools
Probability distributions
Monte-Carlo simulation Concept
Crystal Ball Software

HR Management for Oil and Gas Managers and Supervisors

About the Course

This program is ideal for those who seek a firm grounding in the Human Resource (HR) challenges facing the international oil and gas industry today and the ways in which HR can contribute to implementing strategic plans, including the management of change. Participants will explore the principles behind the Balanced Scorecard and its use in analyzing leadership and workforce behaviors, skills and competencies, and the impacts of HR policies. Particular focuses are on defining, applying, and investing in workforce success and on identifying shared line management and HR accountabilities. The program’s topics are directly applicable to strategic business discussions and planning in modern organizations.

Who Should Attend

This program is designed specifically for mid- to senior- managers and supervisors from all sectors of the oil and gas industry who wish to enhance their competencies in essential HR management areas.

Lecture Content

1. Overview of the Petroleum Industry Today

2. Systems Thinking:

Developing a Big Picture Vision
Benefits of systems thinking to HR professionals; thinking systemically; attitudes and behavior; and understanding complexity.

3. Building the Workforce Scorecard

Introduction to the Workforce Scorecard; methods to align the workforce with corporate strategy; measuring workforce success through metrics; three challenges to successful implementation; integrating with the Balanced Scorecard.

4. Emotional Intelligence and the Corporate Culture

Organizational culture and change; emotional intelligence and applying emotional intelligence in your organization.

5. Human Resource Management

HR Processes; HR strategy model; building a manpower plan; source of personnel; recruiting and compensation.

6. Developing Competent Managers, Specialists and O&M Personnel in the Oil and Gas Industry

Typical competency levels, competency assurance system and process; effective development options using traditional and technology-based learning methods.

7. Business Simulation

Indicators for an inclusive green economy: Advanced course

Description

The application of indicator methodologies often requires policymakers to make adjustments to their specific national contexts. Countries need to develop tailored and flexible national indicator frameworks that respond to their development priorities and statistical capacities whilst supporting their efforts in monitoring progress toward a green economy.

This advanced e-learning experience builds on the concepts and processes described in the Introductory course and focuses particularly on the application of the Green Economy Progress (GEP) Measurement Framework developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) under the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE). This framework provides a methodology for comparing performance in the transition to a green economy over time.

What will you learn?

The course explores the conceptual underpinning of the GEP Measurement Framework and how it contributes to the “beyond GDP” measurement agenda. Firstly, it explains how progress (or regress) on a single indicator can be measured and how these indicators can be combined into the GEP Index with its weighting system. Secondly, it describes how to measure progress on a Dashboard of Sustainability and how to combine this information with the GEP Index to create a system for ranking countries that is informative to policymakers.

After completing the course, participants will be able to:

Illustrate the concepts, methodology and application of the GEP Measurement Framework
Select indicators for a customized country application and interpret relevant results
Explain how countries’ progress can be compared in a global application of the GEP Measurement Framework

The course at a glance

The course is self-paced and structured into four lessons:

Concepts in measuring green economy progress
The Green Economy Progress Measurement Framework methodology
Selecting indicators for country-level applications
Global application of the GEP Measurement Framework

Target audience

Potential participants in this training include:

policymakers in governments and international and regional organizations;
policy analysts and statisticians in these organizations;
academics from a range of disciplines concerned with the economy, environment and society

Green Fiscal Policy

Description

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many fragilities of our economies and deepened existing inequalities and imbalances. Long before the pandemic hit nations across the world, many economies were marked by harmful and inefficient use of public and private resources, reinforcing environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, global warming and vulnerabilities linked to health and social exclusion. In the wake of the health and economic crisis, citizens are increasingly demanding a departure from business-as-usual approaches in favour of innovative and green policies. Similarly, many governments recognize that the transformative potential of this circumstance must not be wasted.

Greening recovery efforts can help nations build forward better after the pandemic to increase the well-being of people and resilience of countries to future crises. Green fiscal policies in particular can play a key role in countries’ recovery efforts by removing inefficiencies in public expenditures and raising additional fiscal revenues which can be directed towards immediate COVID-19 relief measures while supporting longer-term investments. While this course was developed prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, its contents therefore remain relevant to current policy discussions.

One practical challenge lies in ensuring that countries are both aware of these opportunities and that they possess the knowledge and skills to take advantage of them. To address this challenge, the course sets out to provide interested participants from government, business, and civil society with an introduction to the green fiscal policy tools and approaches to foster a more sustainable future

What will you learn?

Participants completing the course will be able to:

Explain the rationale for greater use of green fiscal policy
List different fiscal instruments to promote desirable economic, social and environmental outcomes
Describe the key stages of the policy cycle
Highlight the main opportunities and challenges presented by the energy, transport and waste management sectors
Outline how international collaboration enhances fiscal policy action taken at the national level

Course Contents

The course aims to provide participants with a solid understanding of fiscal policy instruments and reform strategies available to policymakers to advance the green economy transition. It contains five lessons, each taking approximately 20 minutes to complete:

The need for green fiscal policy
Fiscal instruments for greening the economy
Effective strategies for fiscal reform
Applying green fiscal policy in key sectors
Collaborating for impact

Green Economy and Trade

Description

World trade patterns show that while many developing countries are now playing an increasing role in trade, many other—and particularly least developed countries account for less than 1% of all global trade—remain stranded on the margins. Still heavily reliant on natural resource-based products and raw materials for their exports, these countries are highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks.

The transition to an inclusive green economy represents many significant opportunities. By harnessing the increasing global demand for environmental goods and services, as well as consumer demand for more sustainable products, countries can diversify their economies, reduce their commodity dependence and boost their competitiveness. Thus, societies promote long-term, sustainable development while also strengthening their capacity to tackle the manifold environmental challenges lying ahead.

Trade can also power a green economic recovery from COVID-19. Global demand for environmental goods and services is expected to rise as countries roll out economic stimuli with larger earmarks for climate-friendly solutions. While this course was developed prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, its contents therefore remain relevant to current policy discussions.

One practical challenge lies in ensuring that countries are both aware of these opportunities and that they possess the knowledge and skills to take advantage of them. To address this challenge, the course sets out to provide interested participants from government, business, and civil society with an introduction to the various approaches that may be taken to harness green trade opportunities.

What will you learn?

Participants completing the course will be able to:

Outline the evolution of legal and governance frameworks underpinning the trade and green economy interface
Identify perceived challenges and potential opportunities related to trade in the transition to a green economy
Describe enabling policy conditions to foster green trade practices
Highlight sectoral case studies of green trade in action

Course Contents

The course aims to provide participants with a solid understanding of the policy instruments and enabling conditions needed for countries to advance the green economy transition via green trade, and vice-versa. It contains four lessons, each taking approximately 20 minutes to complete:

The trade and environment interface
Perceived tensions and synergies between trade liberalization and the green economy
Enabling conditions and policy design for green trade
Seizing sectoral opportunities

Green Industrial Policy: Promoting Competitiveness and Structural Transformation

Description

Industrial policy — or strategic government measures that aim to promote new economic sectors and accelerate structural change — has traditionally been employed to enhance productivity, boost competitiveness, and promote economic growth. Today, green industrial policy follows this same approach of state-driven structural change while also promoting broader social and environmental goals.

By drawing from recent examples of green industrial policy, countries can generate the benefits of traditional industrial policy while accelerating the shift away from carbon-intensive industrial production to more sustainable models, thus advancing the transition towards a green economy while reducing the numerous environmental risks lying ahead.

The course is designed to advance learning on green industrial policy at a high technical level and serves two types of users. First, the course provides individual learners with the knowledge and conceptual tools to grasp and shape the global debate on modernizing the industrial basis of our economies. Secondly, lecturers and instructors are encouraged to use the course materials and apply them within their instructional activities, for example by integrating them into existing curricula and/or programmes.

What will you learn?

The course’s materials are curated to help achieve the following learning objectives:

Explain the rationale for advancing green industry
Differentiate the main concepts related to green industrial policy
Highlight relevant empirical evidence in support of policy reform
Distinguish policy instruments to foster structural change
Appraise strategic considerations during policy design, implementation and evaluation
Outline the relationship between green industrial policy and trade

Course Contents

The course offers a wide panorama of the main conceptual and empirical considerations within the current global green industrial policy debate along five modules, each addressing a specific set of questions:

Industrial policy: Challenges and opportunities
Green industrial policy: Conceptual foundations
Strategic development of green industrial policy
Green industrial policy instruments
Green industrial policy and trade

TARGET AUDIENCE

The course features a distinct design to support trainers and lecturers in advancing learning on green industrial policy at a high technical level. A suite of didactic instruments is offered for integration or tailoring into existing instructional activities. Users are also welcome to peruse the course materials for self-study, since the material is presented in the format of a standalone online course. Those with a robust pre-existing understanding of the wider topic are expected to benefit the most. The course should be of particular interest to the following audiences:

1. Training institutions and universities, e.g. those entities educating the current and next generation of decision makers in public and private sectors;
2. Policymakers and planners, e.g. those working on the design, implementation and/or evaluation of contemporary industrial policy;
3. Civil society, e.g. non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups and industrial associations.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Building upon the trilogy of reports on green industrial policy developed under PAGE, this course aims to build capacities among its target audience with respect to the following areas:

Explain the rationale for advancing green industry
Differentiate the main concepts related to green industrial policy
Highlight relevant empirical evidence in support of policy reform
Distinguish policy instruments to foster structural change
Appraise strategic considerations during policy design, implementation and evaluation
Outline the relationship between green industrial policy and trade

Sustainable Energy Access for Communities

Description

There are 789 million people around the world who live without access to electricity. In addition, 2.8 billion people globally have no access to clean and safe cooking fuels and technologies.

In this two-week course, you’ll explore the meaning of energy access and how to overcome its challenges to provide safe and clean energy for communities around the world.

Since the launch of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the international community has been working tirelessly to address the energy access challenge. But this cannot be achieved unless we find ways to inspire and support entire communities to transition to renewable energy.

To do this, you’ll identify the right technological solutions and the many sides to renewable energy, including technology, behavior change, economics, and community dynamics. The course will help you address energy efficiency and how communities can save both money and energy with the right solutions.

Examining different business models, you’ll identify several renewable energy and off-grid community solutions, such as solar PV, wind, hydro, biogas, and even bio-electricity. You’ll also analyze a mini-grid case study and look into household energy consumption to understand where savings can be made.

When addressing energy access, it’s vital to consider the ways this can impact the wider community. You’ll examine case studies and learn innovative techniques to promote community engagement and help you make a change in your community. Finally, you will take part in a peer review of your plans to help your community move closer to a renewable energy future.

What topics will you cover?

Week 1: The Meaning of energy access

Challenges for renewable energy
Defining access to energy
Moving to clean cooking
Alternative energy futures: an integrated approach
On or off grid? A debate

Week 2: Renewable energy solutions for communities

Energy efficiency: saving money, saving energy
Exploring renewable options for communities
Analyzing household energy consumption
Business models for off grid community solutions
Mini grid case study and game

Week 3: Engaging the community

The importance of community engagement in the transition to renewable energy
Case studies in community engagement
A citizen’s assembly on energy in Lebanon
Creative ways to support stakeholder decision making
Planning a community engagement activity

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…

Describe the complex levels of access to energy and the relationship between access to energy and meeting the SDGs
Assess renewable energy solutions for communities
Identify a path to energy transition for you and your community
Experiment with energy efficiency
Discuss business models for renewable energy solutions
Explore approaches to engaging the community to move toward renewable energy
Produce a plan for community engagement with renewable energy

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for anyone with an interest in renewable energy transitions. You could be an aspiring community activist or leader, a professional working in renewable energy, or a government professional with a role in renewable energy.

Community Energy Ambassadors course

Description

Registrations for our annual Community Energy Ambassadors course are now open. Energy communities are one of the most important tools for creating an energy system that works for people and planet and we’re looking forward to help aspiring energy community organizers on their way.

Who is the course for?

Anyone who is interested in setting up an energy community in their local area, and looking for information and tools on how to get the ball rolling. The course will cover the theoretical aspects, including policy frameworks and the challenges community energy projects face in the current landscape, as well as practical skills such as community engagement and movement building. Participants will be working on their own community energy projects throughout the course and will present their ideas during the final seminar.

The aim of this course is to provide a stepping stone for people who’d like to start their own energy community. It’s open to anyone with a basic understanding of community energy and a proficient level of English. The course and material will be in English so you’ll need to be able to read and write in English, but a native level is not required. We encourage people who are working at non-profit organizations or in the field of renewable energy to apply. There’s a limited number of spaces available for the course so apply as soon as you can. We’re striving for a diverse group of participants from all across Europe and strongly encourage people from under-represented groups to apply.

Socially Responsible Renewable Energy Development Short Course

Description

The renewable energy landscape is changing quickly. Learn how to deliver better community engagement and benefit-sharing strategies that foster social license to deliver successful projects.

Governments are driving faster rates of renewable energy development to meet targets, address climate change and replace retiring coal-fired power stations. Renewable energy is also being positioned as a key economic opportunity for regional communities.

We need renewable energy developers who can secure and maintain community support for current and emerging opportunities. Getting the social aspects right will:

Help the renewable energy industry thrive into the future
Deliver benefits in regional communities and harness community support
Assist State Governments to meet their renewable energy targets

This two-week online course will equip renewable energy practitioners with training in best-practice community engagement and benefit sharing concepts and methods.

Learning Outcomes

Recognize key social considerations that should be incorporated into renewable energy development.
Identify key characteristics of effective community engagement and benefit-sharing strategies that support best-practice outcomes for mid and large-scale projects.
Apply key community engagement and benefit sharing strategies to meet the needs of unique social contexts and analyze how a developer’s approach may impact on social license to operate.
Reflect on how introduced strategies and skills could influence future personal and/or professional initiatives.

Who should attend?

Renewable energy practitioners, advocates and policy makers, especially those in project development, project management and community engagement roles.

Course outline

Each week you’ll cover a new topic with guest presenters each week from the industry and wider sector over the course.

Week 1: Understanding social license + engagement principles
Week 2: Gaining strategic knowledge of the social context
Week 3: Developing effective community engagement plans + evaluation methods
Week 4: Engaging with Indigenous communities
Week 5: Benefit sharing concepts + options
Week 6: Legal + financial models of co-investment + co-ownership
Week 7: Forming partnerships for local economic development (procurement, employment & legacy initiatives)
Week 8: Effective complaint management + handling tricky situations

Applied Energy Efficiency Course & Training

Desciption

Energy costs are on the rise with projected forecasts in the order of 30%-50% over the next 2 years. Implementing energy efficiency measures in your workplace is essential in avoiding the mounting cost pressures that rising energy prices will bring.

This course will help you identify demand and supply efficiency opportunities in your workplace, evaulate the business benefits and develop solutions to improve the way your organisation uses energy.

During the course you will also be taken through several case studies to see how solutions have been applied in real-life.

This course will enable you to:

Understand the sources and types of energy used within the workplace, community facility and home
How to overcome the barriers to energy efficiency adaptation
Identify energy demand and supply efficiency opportunities in the workplace
Develop solutions to improve energy efficiency and productivity
Evaluate the business and community benefits associated with different energy efficiency projects
Implement energy efficiency opportunities
Understand and interpret energy efficiency product guidelines
Calculate running costs and project costs for energy efficiency opportunities to establish a cost/benefit analysis
Use models for financial assessment and business case development (e.g. Payback, IRR, NPV)
Employ workplace strategies to performance-manage business outcomes
Prepare reports and effectively communicate energy efficiency recommendations and objectives

Course Program

Prior to the course, you will receive a pre-course guide to read to help fuel discussion and achievement of learning outcomes in Part 1.

Part 1 – Demand Efficiencies and Barriers

Global energy consumption in the context
Policy and Regulatory Response
Energy Efficiency and Carbon Reduction Link
Demand Efficiency – Behavioral Changes
Behavioral Change Case Studies
Barriers to Energy Efficiency
Demand Efficiency – Infrastructure Changes
Infrastructure Change Case Studies
Power Factor Correction
Lighting – demonstration
Green Procurement

Part 2 – Supply Efficiencies and Business Case

What is Supply Efficiency
Forms of Renewable Energy
Solar PV Installation Case Study
Co-Generation – including case study
Financial Evaluation and Performance Measures
Performance Management – Targets and Continuous Improvement
Prioritizing Projects – Developing an Energy Efficiency Roadmap
Co-Benefits of Energy Efficiency Initiatives

This course is applicable to the workplace, community facility and the household. As preparation for the course, you will be asked to gather real energy consumption data from your workplace, community facility or home to use in the class exercises and tasks, therefore maximizing the course outcomes. Guidelines for the collection of energy data are supplied in the pre-course guide. During Part 2 of the course, you will work in groups to complete workbook exercises and engage in discussions on energy efficiency opportunities. The completion of workbooks forms part of the final assessment.

You will be taken through 7 case studies (4 demand and 3 supply efficiency initiatives) to contextualize the course content and assess relevance and applicability of different projects.

This course is applicable to both the workplace, community facility and the household. As preparation for the course, you will be asked to gather real energy consumption data from your workplace, community facility or home to use in the class exercises and tasks, therefore maximizing the course outcomes. Guidelines for the collection of energy data are supplied in the pre-course guide. Following the course, you will be given time to prepare a draft business case for a workplace energy efficiency opportunity you have identified.

Who should attend?

You should attend this course if you are responsible for, or interested in, energy consumption and identification of energy savings in your workplace, community facility or home but need the knowledge, skills and experience to successfully identify energy efficiency opportunities and achieve significant energy cost savings you should attend this course.

This course is especially relevant to the following positions and job functions:

Facilities and asset managers in private and public sector e.g. schools, hospitals, councils
IT managers
Operations managers
Small business owners
Property managers
Finance and business analysts
Procurement and supply chain managers

Energy Economics and Policy

Description

Concerns for energy security, threat of climate change, and uncertainties in the price of energy (the so-called ‘energy trilemma’) requires transformation of the ways in which energy is produced, delivered and consumed.

Both for the developed and developing economies challenges stem from meeting increasing electricity demands from more intermittent renewable resources. This course covers a variety of theoretical and empirical topics related to energy demand, supply, prices, renewable vs depletable resources and environmental consequences of energy consumption and production – all from an economic perspective. It will demonstrate how key economic principles are used in various energy-environment models to inform energy and climate policy.

What you will learn

On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

Critically evaluate the purpose of energy policy, as well as the range of policy strategies and instruments,
Explain how economic principles govern energy markets and the economics of energy supply,
Evaluate the approaches for energy market regulation,
Critically evaluate different approaches for the modelling of energy and environment interactions,
Identify and evaluate the key issues facing the energy sector (i.e. smart technologies, energy security).

Core content

Key concepts and main approaches in economic analysis of energy systems,
Different approaches to economic modelling of energy and environment interactions,
Energy efficiency and renewable energy policies,
Regulation and governance,
Energy policy theory and practice,
Economics of energy and ancillary services market.

Who should attend

Those with a broad interest in understanding and developing energy economics and strategy in the context of a sustainable future. This includes energy and facility managers, consultants, local government planners and those working in an entirely different sector considering a change in career path.

Energy Law

Description

Energy law is front and centre to many of today’s global crises, yet few understand it deeply enough to be confident in their professional work. The world is facing an array of critical energy law problems, from the Russia-EU energy crisis, the climate change energy transition crisis, the many pollution crises that result from energy-related disasters, and perhaps most importantly of all, energy justice. This course provides a deep introduction to the solutions and challenges of energy law.

Bringing together a distinguished team of experts from academia, leading law firms, and industry, the course provides a well-rounded account of the principal legal and regulatory issues in the renewable and non-renewable energy sector from an international and comparative perspective.

Are our current energy laws and policies strong and robust enough to ensure the global average temperature at the end of the century does not exceed 2°C as per the Paris Agreement? Or do we need to explore a much more diverse range of technological and regulatory options to reduce the amount of carbon emissions, for instance by making combined use of hydrogen and carbon capture and storage technologies? What are the investment implications arising from a changing climate? And what does it all mean for the lawyers at the heart of these decisions and transactions?

Indicative course topics:

Energy Law as a Complex System: Energy Independence, Economics of Energy, Energy Security & Environmental Sustainability
Carbon Reduction Policies: Law, Prospects and Problems
Climate Change Litigation and the Energy Sector
The Changing (Legal) Landscape in the Oil & Gas Sector: Legal and Societal Dimensions to the Energy Transition
Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS)
Decommissioning of (Abandoned or Disused) Offshore Installations
Maritime Boundary Disputes & Implications for Seabed Energy Investments
Role of Lawyers in Energy Crisis and Disaster Response
Renewable Energy Law: The Legal Landscape and Future Direction

Who is the course for?

The course would be beneficial for legal practitioners, students, law academics and non-lawyers with an interest in the global governance of energy and natural resources, environmental law, climate change and energy transition law.

Carbon Market Fundamentals

Description

As corporate stakeholders demand that organizations reduce emissions to limit contributions to climate change, carbon markets have become more relevant than ever. It’s important to understand these markets and how to responsibly engage with them to reduce the risks of an ineffective carbon management plan. We will start the course with the basics of carbon markets: purpose, terminology, and key events and drivers that have converged to create today’s market dynamics. Next, we will discuss compliance and voluntary markets and how these differ, along with examples.

We will assess different types of projects, and their characteristics (in terms of the number of offsets generated vs. the value of those offsets), before discussing the seven key metrics used to assess projects. We will end the course by examining how analysts and management teams can engage with carbon markets and conduct due diligence around project quality.

Learning Objectives

Define the purpose of carbon markets and carbon credits.
Explain key concepts & terminology.
Determine carbon credit quality, as well as associated risks and benefits.
Provide insight on the role of carbon offsets in achieving corporate climate commitments.
Compare compliance markets and voluntary markets.
Assess the value of different project types and their associated implications.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is designed for management teams, business analysts, management consultants, and financial analysts of all stripes at both private and public companies.

Contents

1. Carbon Markets Overview

Purpose of Carbon Markets Free Preview
Terminology Free Preview
History & Policy Free Preview
Carbon Markets vs. Carbon Taxes Free Preview

2. Compliance & Voluntary Markets

Overview
Compliance Markets
Compliance Markets Example
Important Compliance Markets & Market Dynamics
Net Zero vs. Carbon Neutral
Voluntary Markets

3. Projects

Project Types
Offset Characteristics & Credibility
Project Ratings
Project Ratings: Mechanism, Causality, and Additionality
Project Ratings: Marginal Additionality & Permanence
Project Ratings: Cost & Co-benefits
Projects with Co-benefits
Offset Certification Process

4. Engaging with Carbon Markets

Offset Lifecycle
Due Diligence Around Climate Commitments & Project Quality
Due Diligence Around Climate Commitments & Project Quality (cont.)
Where to Buy Offsets

5. Current State & Market Trends

Current Trends
Current Issues
Guidelines for Responsible Engagement

Introduction to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

Description

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) has gained increasing attention over the past few years, with many institutional investors investing only in those companies that provide ESG performance reporting. ESG has considerations relevant to analysts and investors, consumers and employees, and it has become a key topic of discussion at the Board table. This course provides an overview of an ESG framework and how it supports a company’s overall risk management. It examines each component in detail and provides insight into how they converge to impact a company and its stakeholders. The course also discusses how to look at corporate pressures & stakeholder expectations and their impact on risk identification and business success. Lastly, we look at critical considerations from both the company and investor perspectives before applying theory to practice in a final case study.

ESG learning objectives

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
Explain what ESG is and its relevance to making financial decisions;
Describe key environmental, social, and governance issues;
Explain how stakeholders influence corporate ESG performance;
Analyze ESG risks and opportunities;
Assess ESG company performance using publicly available information;
Translate ESG information to business intelligence.

Who should take this course?

This Environmental Social Governance (ESG) course is perfect for any one with interests including analysts who would like to better understand how a companies and organizations manages risks and opportunities that shifting market & non-market conditions create in today’s world.

This course explores concepts that will be useful for beginner and intermediate-level research analysts, banking and investment professionals, or business and finance students seeking to gain further insight into ESG.

The exercises and tools explored in this course will also be useful for any business analyst that wishes to advise public market clients on ESG strategies and improved disclosures.

What you’ll learn

1. Introduction

What Is ESG?
What Is ESG? Free Preview
Interactive Exercise 1 Free Preview
What’s Driving Growth?
ESG vs. Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)
Why Is It Important?

2. ESG Factors

Environmental Factors
Impact of Environmental Factors on Corporations
Social Factors
Impact of Social Factors on Corporations
Governance Factors
Impact of Governance Factors on Corporations
Materiality
ESG Risks & Opportunities

3. Corporate Pressures & Stakeholder Expectations

Stakeholders
Stakeholder Expectations
Modern Demands on the Supply Chain

4. Key Considerations for Companies & Investors

Reporting, Transparency, and Valuation
ESG & Competitive Advantage
ESG Trends & Initiatives
Initiative Impacts

5. Case Study & Course Summary

Case Study
Course Summary

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