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Skills for sustainable business operations

How can a business achieve ‘sustainable operations’? It is not just a matter of preventing pollution or reducing energy consumption, although these might be significant sustainability issues for some businesses. It is about planning and managing a business for sustainability and for the specific sustinability issues affecting the sector and the business. Some businesses might be faced with customer demands for ‘green’ products and need to focus on sustainability in the supply chain. Others … [Read more...]

Sustainability Skills Resources now available

UPDATE: The majority of the resources are relevant for the updated and re-coded units of competency in the MSS Sustainability Training Package. The exceptions are the Assessment Guides (core units) and Online Assessment ideas (Skill Sets) which have not been updated for the Assessment Requirements. The Sustainability Skills resources will help training providers to design and deliver sustainability training and assessment using the MSS11 Sustainable Operations qualifications. The resources … [Read more...]

About carbon sources and sinks

This guide provides general information about carbon sources and sinks. It explains the basic concepts such as carbon dioxide equivalent and demonstrates how different issues might be relevant, depending on the context. The guide includes examples of natural and commercial sources of carbon, calculating carbon emissions and carbon reduction 'sinks'. The information is relevant to several units of competency in the MSS Sustainability Training Package; however the guide is not aligned to a … [Read more...]

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