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To demonstrate which skills leading
organisations are building to find advantages in a trying business climate, GCX
would like to provide some examples of who we have trained and which skills
these individuals and companies have invested in building.
Consol sent their entire management on our
Introduction to Carbon Management course to help them position all departments
around the opportunities in low-carbon business practice.
Spier is the ultimate testament to
sustainability making good business sense by increasing their revenue by 300%
from 2007 to 2008. Spier has sent key staff members to almost every one of our
training courses. Their accountant has attended the GCX Carbon
Footprint Analyst (CFA) 1 course, CFA 2,Introduction
to Carbon Projects while their facilities manager attended the CFA1 course
and the GCX
Energy Efficiency Assessor course.
Spier’s combination of training their
accountant and their facilities manager is actually the most effective capacity
building investment that companies conducting carbon footprint assessments can
make.
The biggest challenge when conducting a
carbon footprint is not the calculation itself, but the fact that data is so
difficult to access. The primary reason for this is that companies are not
geared toward reporting on non-financial data and do not yet have the systems
in place that capture and log this data for carbon accounting purposes
McCarthy Motors sent over 100 corporate
staff on our Sustainable
Green Office Workshop workshop to gain complete staff buy-in for their
sustainability targets which include integrated environmental, social and
economic goals.
Discovery, Eskom, UNDP, Afgri, MetAir,
Massmart, Steinhoff, Clicks, Rainbow Chickens, Faircape Dairy, Dept of
Environmental Affairs, City of Cape Town, Unilever and the list continues organisations
have sent and continue to send staff on our strategic, specialist and awareness
building courses etc. the list goes on.
In
2011 we ran 21 training courses across South Africa with corporate and
industrial personal making up most of our attendees.
In 2012 we are going to focus on our
corporate clients to help them mobilise all staff members in the most
effectively presented blended training solutions. Please see our courses page for
our clearly marked “In-house Courses” that are best suited to large numbers of
staff.
Of all our training offerings The
Sustainable Green Office Workshop is likely to have the single most
positive impact on all your staff, while the courses most beneficial to senior
management and executives are Introduction
to Carbon Management and Introduction
to Carbon Projects.
To build specialist skills, please visit
our 2012
course calendar . Finance and accounting staff should attend our CFA 1 and
2 courses.
Operational Facilities Managers should
attend our GCX
Energy Efficiency Assessor, Water Management
and Waste Auditing and Minimisation course (launch details will be released
next year).
There is only one reason South Africa’s
leading organisations are taking serious measures to become more efficient in
their resource consumption, waste production and carbon intensity - to stay in
business.
Unfortunately governments don’t operate in
the same context as business which explains why business is leading the way
before legislation follows. Governments are paid by the people, which removes
the immediate connection between; operations, resources, and profitability
based on efficiency.
Organisations on the other hand understand
that business as usual could mean the fast track to no business at all. And those
that link profitability to social and environmental best practice are not only
showing stability- many are indicating growth in this adverse business climate.
It’s not only the lone polar bears on
melting icecaps that has played on the consciences of executives and investors,
it’s the business imperative. We should know - many of them are our clients. |
