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Carbon Footprint Competition

 

SMART partner Greenfleet recently announced a $500 cash prize for the team who submits the best carbon footprint assignment for ENVM3524. Students are required to conduct a corporate carbon footprint for a company as part of their assessment, analyse it, and make strategic recommendations to the board on how to reduce emissions in the most cost effective manner.

 

Greenfleet is Australia's largest provider of vehicle fleet offsets and other corporate emissions offsets.
 

www.greenfleet.com.au


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Sustainability Professionals set to be in hot demand

WME Magazine, March 2009


Despite little action on job boards during the current economic downturn, Safe Search MD Julie Honore says forward thinking businesses are looking to 'position themselves for the future' - creating new positions for environmental professionals that are central to business, rather than a niche area. Honore concludes that many of the top 70 ASX listed firms surveyed are looking to attract staff with a background in business but with qualifications in environmental & sustainability studies.

 

 
Our Courses

Semester 2, 2009


ENVM2522  
Environmental
Markets & Emissions Trading

ENVM3525
Sustainable Business
Practice

ENVM3527  
Communicating for
Sustainability

ENVM7525
Business Management in a             Carbon Constrained World
 

 

 

 

Courses

Courses offered by SMART are listed below. To find out more information on student study options, click here.  



 The study of Environmental Markets and Emissions Trading explores the areas of: eco-system services and emerging markets; environmental banking; factors driving the growth of the environment industry; financial and environmental risk and emerging markets for environmental finance; insurance and lending trends; future scenarios constraining access to finance and insurance and; investment in clean technology stocks. Note: Course offered as an elective in other programs.
      
       > ENVM2522: Undergraduate Course Profile
       > ENVM7524: Postgraduate Course Profile




Firms, Communities and Social Responsibility involves the study of the firm's role in society, the social responsibilities of businesses and how businesses can constructively engage stakeholders. In the process, contemporary issues in business ethics, corporate legitimacy, sustainable governance and corporate social responsibility are explored and discussed.

      > ENVM2524: Undergraduate Course Profile


 Communicating for Sustainability explores: triple bottom line reporting concepts; ethical reporting and marketing; legal and regulatory requirements for sustainable governance; global, regional and industry specific standards and trends in sustainability reporting, including the role of certification and; effective marketing of achievements in sustainability.

      > ENVM3527: Undergraduate Course Profile
      > ENVM7526: Postgraduate Course Profile
 



Business Management in a Carbon Constrained World involves strategic analysis of: the role of carbon in macroeconomic settings; risks to business associated with constraints on carbon use; carbon foot printing; issues associated with the transition from hydrocarbons to new energy sources; emerging market opportunities; emissions trading and clean development mechanisms and; the longer term outlook for a carbon constrained business environment. Note: Course offered as an elective in other programs.

     > ENVM3524: Undergraduate Course Profile
     > ENVM7525: Postgraduate Course Profile




Sustainable Business Practice integrates issues developed in the other four subject clusters by analysing interesting case studies of: effective stakeholder engagement; industrial project development in developing country and indigenous community settings; clean development projects and emerging 'green' technology businesses; entrepreneurship and emerging environmental markets; sustainable natural resource management and; reporting and marketing of sustainability

      > ENVM3525: Undergraduate Course Profile 

 

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Contact: Paul Dargusch (Course coordinator)
Email: p.dargusch@uq.edu.au 
Phone: 0448 606 257



 

 
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