Carbon Literacy Training for SMEs

Carbon Literacy for SMEs is a CLP accredited, foundation-level qualification designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses.

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What you’ll gain:

After completing the course you’ll be able to:

• Understand how climate change affects your business, customers and supply chain
• Recognise how business decisions influence carbon emissions, costs and resource efficiency
• Identify practical opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce waste
• Understand how sustainability can support innovation and future growth
• Contribute confidently to climate-related discussions
• Achieve Carbon Literacy certification

Who is this Carbon Literacy Training for?

Our training is delivered only to SMEs to keep it relevant, practical and focused on real SME challenges.

Tailored to any industry.

It’s especially useful for:

• Senior leaders wanting to make more informed strategic and investment decisions.
• Teams across the business, from operations and procurement to finance, HR, sales, marketing and compliance.
• Whole organisations looking to build a shared understanding of climate change and embed sustainability into everyday business decisions.

The business value of Carbon Literacy Training for SMEs

Our Carbon Literacy Training for SMEs delivers clear business value by equipping participants with a practical, relevant understanding of carbon, alongside a realistic view of your business’s emerging needs.

What this means for your business:

• Greater confidence responding to customer and supply-chain expectations
• Improved resilience in a changing business and regulatory landscape
• More motivated, committed employees who feel invested in the business’s future
• Stronger engagement through shared understanding and language
• Reduced risk of costly or ineffective decisions

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Open training sessions

Ideal for individuals and small teams

• One day accredited course
• Online or in person
• Maximum 15 delegates per session

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Training for teams of 7+

Bespoke Carbon Literacy training

Tailored to your organisation’s operations, sustainability priorities and business objectives, creating a shared understanding across your teams through practical, sector-relevant learning.

Ideal for:

• Leadership teams
• Departmental training
• Whole organisation rollouts

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Carbon Literacy isn’t about creating sustainability specialists.

It’s about giving every employee the confidence to:

• Understand environmental change
• Make better business decisions
• Identify opportunities to reduce costs and improve efficiency
• Strengthen resilience
• Respond to changing customer and supply chain expectations

Carbon Literacy is often the first step in helping businesses understand climate change, carbon emissions and the role they can play in creating a more sustainable future.

But knowledge alone doesn’t deliver change.

That’s why Ecogenesys Training Academy has partnered with sustainability consultancy, Genee, to create the  – Sustainability Growth Pathway – a practical route that helps SMEs turn learning into measurable action.

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After completing Carbon Literacy, businesses can continue their journey by developing an Environmental Management System through the nationally recognised Investors in the Environment (iiE) accreditation programme.

Together, the pathway provides a structured framework to help organisations:

• Build sustainability knowledge and confidence
• Measure and understand their environmental impacts
• Develop practical initiatives, including carbon reduction plans, waste reduction programmes, energy efficiency measures and sustainable procurement policies
• Engage employees in environmental action
• Monitor, measure and demonstrate continual improvement
• Achieve recognised environmental accreditation

Whether you’re just beginning your sustainability journey or looking to formalise existing environmental activity, the Sustainability Growth Pathway provides expert support every step of the way.