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Scalable Learning for Sustainable Business
The WBCSD Academy is a high-impact, self-paced learning platform built to accelerate sustainable business. Designed with and for business leaders, it equips professionals at every level with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to tackle sustainability challenges and drive real change.
Each course blends expert insight with real-world application— empowering your teams to make smarter decisions, faster, and embed sustainability into everyday business.
This fundamentally important course is designed to equip learners with the knowledge, mindset, and practical tools to drive positive change, foster sustainability and inclusivity, and effectively communicate the importance of sustainability within their organizations and society.
This course introduces the growing risks inequality poses to society and business, while highlighting the private sector’s critical role in addressing it. Learners explore 10 key actions businesses can take to build a world of opportunity for all, based on insights from the Business Commission to Tackle Inequality.
This course introduces the essential links between business and nature, helping learners understand how environmental dependencies and impacts translate into both risks and opportunities, showing learners why nature is a critical business issue.
This course equips learners with essential knowledge and tools to support climate action across business functions. It covers how to measure, reduce, and report emissions, showcases real-world strategies from leading companies, and introduces the Climate Drive’s Net Zero Guidebook.
WBCSD’s “Circular Transition Indicators: Foundation and Practitioner” courses equip you with the skills to accelerate the transition toward a circular economy. You’ll gain in-depth knowledge of the Circular Transition Indicators (CTI), one of the most comprehensive frameworks available for measuring circularity performance in business.
IPM course is a holistic approach to corporate performance management based on the integration of multiple capitals (e.g., natural, social, intellectual) and long-term value creation into decision-making to drive strategic success.
Fair Recruitment in Practice is an interactive e-learning course designed to help companies and service providers strengthen their recruitment practices for migrant workers.
This self-paced systems training provides learning on climate scenarios for the Food, Forestry and Agriculture sector; how to navigate the Climate Scenario Analysis Tool & how to use the tool to assess impacts & inform decision-making.
This short course provides the context needed to navigate 2025’s shifting sustainability landscape with confidence, relevance, and strategic foresight. Learners will strengthen their ability to talk about sustainability with fluency, understand its intersection with geopolitics, and stay current with evolving regulations.
This short course distils the wisdom and experiences of industry leaders into actionable strategies, empowering businesses to integrate sustainability into their organizational fabric, seize its commercial potential, and be resilient in the face of disruptions.
Simple, Affordable Pricing for Impact at Scale
Unlock 12 months of unlimited access to all WBCSD Academy courses for your entire company—at a highly affordable subscription rate. Empower every employee with the knowledge and tools to drive sustainable business transformation.”
| Individual License fees per course | Price (Swiss Francs) |
|---|---|
| 3-hour+ courses | CHF 120 |
| 1-3 hour courses | CHF 50 |
| Short courses | CHF 25 |
WBCSD Academy Licenses member offer:
Members enjoy 25% discount on all license fees
Volume discounts apply to 100 licenses or more.
The WBCSD Academy is an online learning platform designed to help professionals across all roles develop the knowledge and skills needed to advance sustainable business practices. Courses are expert-led, interactive, and built around real-world insights.
Access is available to everyone! Some specific content may only be open to employees of WBCSD member companies.
Yes—most courses are asynchronous, meaning learners can start anytime and progress at their own pace, from any device. New live courses will be launched shortly.
Yes! Learners earn digital badges and certificates upon course completion. These can be shared on LinkedIn, internal platforms, or personal development records.
Yes. Admins at subscribing companies can access progress dashboards and reporting tools to track engagement and completion rates across teams.
Reach out via the Content page at the top of the page to get set up or reach us at academy@wbcsd.org.
Absolutely. Our content is regularly reviewed and updated to reflect evolving sustainability priorities, global frameworks, and business trends.
Yes, we support integration with Learning Management Systems (LMS) through Single Sign-on or using SCORM or xAPI packages.
The We Value Nature campaign and the Capitals Coalition have developed a free online business training course focusing on valuing nature and people.
Businesses that value nature and people benefit from improved risk management, new business and investment opportunities, enhanced stakeholder engagement and anticipation of future legislation.
This course comes in response to We Value Nature and the Capitals Coalition having seen an increased demand from businesses and the finance sector for the knowledge and skills to apply natural capital assessments and a capitals approach.
The Capitals Coalition, Nature^Squared, WBCSD-BCTI and Social Value International have developed a free, online training course with a focus on business’ transformation through valuing social and human capital.
This interactive course, ‘Transforming Business: Valuing Social & Human Capital’, comes in response to an increased demand from the business and finance sectors to gain a better understanding of the application of social and human capital.
Businesses that value their stakeholders, employees, the community in which they operate and their consumers, are able to build stronger, more resilient relationships, increase wellbeing of those affected and improve their financial performance.