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Module INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABILITY IN BUSINESS

Module code: MI6243
Credits: 5
Semester: 2
Department: BUSINESS
International: No
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As evidence of the climate crisis grows daily, from rising temperatures to unprecedented extreme weather events, sustainability concerns are becoming a central business issue. Supply chains, energy dispatch and production are being impacted; customers are demanding change; employees are raising concerns; investors are calling for greater transparency; and an increasing amount of litigation and regulation are driving climate action rapidly up the corporate agenda.

To date in Ireland, businesses have already begun to act on climate change with multinational corporations and large indigenous employers embedding sustainability across their businesses at different stages. SMEs are also responding as sustainability works its way from manufacturing to the supply chain. Their actions are driving access to new markets, innovation, greater resilience, and higher employee engagement.

With the scale of the challenge ahead, corporate climate action is now entering a new phase. Organisations are now tasked with taking increasingly ambitious and significant action including setting science-based targets, addressing emissions across scope 1, 2 and 3, aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals, while managing the complexities between climate and social issues and navigating through simultaneous crises.

The aim of this module is to equip future leaders with conceptual tools for addressing the complex and difficult issues surrounding the formulation and implementation of organizational strategies for success in the 21st century, in which sustainability will no longer be perceived as a “nice to have” and will become a fundamental business imperative.

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