Corporate Low-Carbon Transition — Six-Month Professional Course
School: FINCOM Paris | Paris Business School. Duration: Six months. Programme code: ESPAST-C19.
Course Overview
Learn from an organizational management perspective about environmental baselines, emissions reduction pathways, and investment comparison to build capacity to translate environmental analysis into action. The course focuses on procurement, resource allocation, and implementation evaluation.
Learning unfolds around a complete case, progressively developing problem analysis, process documentation, and final outcomes. This course is not a compression of Bachelor or MSc into six months, but concentrated training in the specific capabilities outlined in this course.
Target Audience and Application Requirements
Suitable for applicants with business, management, environmental, engineering, or operations backgrounds. Applicants submit personal information, CV or learning history, and learning motivation; if the course involves creative work or technical foundations, applicants may attach portfolio or project materials. The course team will assess whether supplementary foundation learning is needed based on submitted materials.
Learning Objectives
- Able to compare enterprise emissions reduction options.
- Able to organize transition actions.
- Able to evaluate investments and performance.
Learning Modules
| Module | Learning Tasks and Outcomes |
|---|---|
| 1. Enterprise Operations and Environment | Identify case problem, organize foundational concepts and applicable conditions. |
| 2. Carbon and Resource Baseline | Organize case materials, explain sources, quality, and information gaps. |
| 3. Emissions Reduction Options | Complete exercises using learned methods, retain process and revision records. |
| 4. Investment and Cost | Apply methods to project, explain choices and constraints. |
| 5. Organizational Collaboration | Compare or test options, form evidence and improvement recommendations. |
| 6. Performance Tracking and Reporting | Integrate outcomes, submit report or portfolio and participate in review. |
Six-Month Learning Schedule
Months 1–2: Study Enterprise Operations and Environment and Carbon and Resource Baseline, identify case and prepare materials, complete foundation exercises.
Months 3–4: Deepen Emissions Reduction Options and Investment and Cost, complete phase applications, receive feedback and revise methods or options.
Months 5–6: Complete integrated project around Organizational Collaboration and Performance Tracking and Reporting, organize outcomes and conduct final review.
Practical Project
Propose an enterprise low-carbon action plan explaining investment prioritization, responsibility allocation, and effect tracking. Outcomes must explain personal contribution, materials used, analysis or production methods, results, and limitations. Team tasks are individually assessed for personal outcomes; participation in team activities does not substitute individual assessment.
Teaching Methods
The course combines method instruction, case exercises, project feedback, and final review. Online learning applies to materials, calculations, digital production, and document collaboration; tasks requiring photography, rehearsal, physical objects, or equipment testing require on-site specifications and conditions to be confirmed before the course starts. Actual online, hybrid, or on-site format is announced per cohort; listing a six-month course does not automatically commit all three formats to run.
Assessment and Completion
Complete designated modules and phase assignments, submit integrated project and pass final review. Evaluation focuses on comparing enterprise emissions reduction options, organizing transition actions, evaluating investments and performance, and outcome accuracy, process documentation, expression, and professional responsibility. Specific grading, resubmission, and re-review procedures will be announced before the course begins; those who do not complete assessment do not automatically receive a completion certificate.
Successful completion and assessment lead to an institution-issued professional course certificate.
Skills and Career Applications
Can be used for enterprise low-carbon, sustainable operations, and transition project support tasks. Course projects can serve as personal learning outcomes or portfolio materials; actual positions require evaluation in combination with existing education, experience, and employer requirements.
Fees and Application
Contact admissions for course tuition and payment information. Online and on-site use the same six-month full course fee. Before formal admission, tuition, practical conditions, other fees, and payment terms will be provided; pre-application does not require payment of tuition.
Admissions email: admissions@espast.fr.
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