The Prince of Wales's Business & the Environment Programme
University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership
The Business and the Environment Programme focuses on the opportunities and challenges for businesses seeking to address the use and development of alternative energy and clean technologies. By understanding the complex interdependencies between energy, climate science and business, participants will acquire an in-depth understanding of the current economic, financial, policy and technological landscape of alternative energy technologies. This seminar is targeted to senior executives who are responsible for their organizations' energy policy or wish to influence it.
Participants will develop an Energy Action Plan over the course of the week that will prepare them to for immediate action in their companies after the program. Seminar graduates will receive alumni benefits from both Cambridge University as well as the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
Topics, Speakers, & Key Questions
Global system pressures: eco-service challenges, system pressures, and current trends.
Explore the latest trends and pressures shaping our world? What are the most serious challenges and how might they affect business? What is the link between the global economic challenge and eco-system decline? How can business move beyond responding crisis by crisis to a culture of adaptability and resiliency.
Climate change -- challenge, opportunity, and climate economics
What is the latest thinking about the pace, dynamics and impact of climate change? What are the most likely policy changes and strategic options that businesses need to know about? What are the likely global economics of carbon?
The business response for energy and climate
- Eco-Efficiency
What are the best practice examples of energy-related initiatives: How are they started? What are the keys to their success? What financial returns are possible from energy investments? What are the opportunities still out there? Why aren't more efficiency efforts adopted? What will be the effect of carbon prices on these efforts?
- Wind, Solar, and Biofuels
What is the state of the art in alternative energy? Which ones are most attractive to businesses interested in deploying them? How do you get started? How might companies in 'old energy' begin to shift and respond to the demands of clean technology? - The Business Response for Energy and Climate: Carbon Capture and Nuclear
Viability as a response to climate crisis? Current thinking on unintended consequences? Hot to tease apart the long-term cost? What if the cost of disposal includes a cost of insured risk?
The new energy infrastructure: what it means and how to finance it
Preparing yourself and your organization to lead the new economy
- Systems Thinking and Adaptive Response and Resiliency
Understanding how to map the complex relationships between system pressures and in complex systems? How can companies respond and adapt to these complex and interrelated resource and energy challenges? What's next and how are we considering it (water, pandemic)? In traditional companies, how can energy initiatives support and define company strategy? How can energy initiatives improve our standing with customers, partners and the general public? - Stakeholder Management
Becoming a successful champion-managing your organization's sustainability 'learning curve' and developing the True North for breakthrough? Communicating the long game: to your board, your colleagues and employees, your customers and shareholders?
The leadership challenge: culture, values, and ethics
Does your corporate and social values support the shift to a 0-Carbon Economy? If not, how can you make the link? How do you solve day-to-day real-life challenges while pursuing sustainability as a company strategy? How do we shape our corporate cultures to be supportive of sustainability? Using your company's current strengths and competencies to frame the shift to sustainability.Breakthrough skills: innovation and collaboration
Innovation: How can companies foment innovation and sustainability across business lines and organizational levels? What are the key skills of innovation? Who does innovation well? What are the key differences when you are innovating for sustainability?Collaboration: How can business creating breakthrough collaborations between sectors? What are the new partnerships? How will government (in particularly the US Government) support these partnerships and encourage Public-Private innovation?
Benefits
University of Cambridge Alumni Benefits
- Gain from 20 years of experience in educating, training and implementing sustainability within industry
- Benefit from an international Business & the Environment Programme alumni network of over 2,500 senior leaders across all sectors
- Advance solutions internationally with the convening power of the Prince of Wales
- Join a movement that will enable us to meet our needs without compromising the needs of our children and our children's children
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business Alumni Benefits
- Invitations to worldwide Haas-sponsored reunions, conferences, and seminars.
- Participation in regional alumni chapters that plan both educational and social events.
- Lifetime access to the worldwide network of over 30,000 Haas Business School alumni and over 300,000 Cal Alumni via our password-protected online community.
- Lifetime access to Haas School's library and online research database (Factiva).
- Lifetime subscription to CalBusiness magazine.
- Access to Alumni Career Services (coaching, workshops, job fairs, job posting service, experienced hire resume database)
- Invitations to support the Haas School's individuals and corporate investors program
- Participation in the Haas and executive education groups on LinkedIn
