Graduate Diploma in Environmental Sustainability Implementation

Sustainability is on the agenda for many sectors. All sectors are responding to sustainability goals, with many organisations setting targets to be achieved by 2030 for compliance, consumer or market retention purposes. Consultation with a range of industry stakeholders has identified that there is a deficit of expertise in the market to address the implementation of sustainability agendas, however the scale and speed of the change required is urgent.

Drivers of this demand are the National Sectoral Emissions Ceilings, the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (2021) Act, Future Jobs initiative 'Transition to low carbon economy', Ireland's National Plan on Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reporting).

This full-time Level 9 Graduate Diploma equips students with the core skills to quantify the sustainability of a product, process or system, identify areas for improvement and devise and manage measures for implementation to improve sustainability.

• The Graduate Diploma in Environmental Sustainability Implementation comprises 60 credits of Modules (10 modules). These modules are offered across the Spring and Autumn Trimesters.
• All synchronous lectures, tutorials and practicals are delivered during normal working hours in Ireland and recorded to allow asynchronous engagement.
• It is possible for students to complete the programme entirely online. However, for those who want to attend campus, students enrolled in the programme are free to attend timetabled face-to-face lectures and practicals on campus if they wish.

The programme is designed to be suitable for people working in any sector in Ireland.

As most modules can be done either in real-time or via recordings – this gives workers flexibility in managing their learnings around their work hours.

Pathway: This 60 ECTS Graduate Diploma is a Pathway programmes that can build to a Masters degree award in Environmental Sustainability Implementation​. Students who complete the Graduate Diploma have the option of completing a 30 ECTS project which builds to this Masters degree award (see below details).

Progression to Masters: If you are interested in progressing to the Masters in Environmental Sustainability Implementation on completion of the Graduate Diploma, please email shelly.smith@ucd.ie for more information. Please note there is no direct entry to the Masters programme.

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Module Information:

Under the "What modules can I take?" section below you will see general module information, for a more detailed description including module selection rules click here.

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