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AXA Climate School
From understanding to action
How AXA Climate School is empowering organizations to take meaningful sustainability and climate change action
Kickstarting organizational sustainability
To inspire change, businesses need to educate and share knowledge as widely as possible, both internally and externally. This is where AXA Climate School comes in.
Every generation has an era defining problem it must solve. Today’s is maybe the most important of any generation: forging a sustainable way forward for the planet, our economy and ultimately our people to safeguard its future. The urgency of addressing climate change demands a whole-of-society transformation that will have the scale of the industrial revolution but the speed of the digital transformation. The responsibility to act can no longer sit solely at a governmental level. The scale and pace mean that industry will be required to play a central role in the transformation.
Businesses across the world, large and small, play a key role in leading and inspiring change. This is expected from a regulatory perspective, a risk-mitigation perspective — and of course there is a moral imperative to respond to community expectations of businesses.
Confronting the climate crisis
To inspire change, there is a need to educate and share knowledge as widely as possible across a business, and its spheres of influence. Everyone has a role to play.
This is where AXA Climate School adds value. We provide a large library of engaging, science-based training content that educates holistically on climate change and sustainability. There is content to help make required shifts at the organizational level sustainability transition, but the library goes a step further with content uniquely tailored to equip people daily in their functions, such as marketing, IT, finance, risk, legal and facilities management. For organizations serving clients in multiple sectors, there’s also sectoral deep dive content available.
Our aim is to give everyone within a business—across all levels and functions—the inspiration and the means to become active stakeholders in the organization's sustainability journey.
Understanding is the key to action
We believe sustainability information and training must have integrity to be trusted.
Scientific rigor is part of our DNA at AXA Climate. Our dedicated content team is supported by contributions from more than 120 experts from across academia and industry to accelerate learning and inspire change.
But good content needs to do more. Too often, sustainability training content loses the learner before they’ve properly started by using too much jargon and new concepts all at once. That’s why we place a large emphasis on making sure our content is engaging and inspiring, delivering a clear learning pathway. Science is balanced with accessibility and real-life examples. Our team micro-learning chapters are easy to comprehend and available in a range of languages to engage people across the globe. With studio production quality, on-demand access and a measured tone, we connect with organizations at a human level.
Finally, climate and sustainability are dynamic and rapidly expanding fields of understanding. Our team continually monitors the climate agenda. So much so that our content is updated every six to eight weeks to ensure it aligns with the latest scientific discoveries, research and regulations. This means you don’t have to dedicate precious hours and resources to reinvent the wheel.
Meaningful insights to inspire
Why is organizational sustainability training needed? In addition to the legal, regulatory, and societal considerations, businesses are beginning to appreciate that their growth cannot sustain unchecked in a world where natural resources are being depleted faster than ever before. Becoming sustainable requires a rethink of the status quo of our traditional linear economy – which today involves extracting resources, producing, consuming and then discarding.
Businesses need to operate within reasonable environmental limits – otherwise known as planetary boundaries. By increasing sustainability awareness internally, skills will be honed that will enable businesses to respond to increasing regulatory requirements. Sustainability practices will soon influence every part of an organization. Every job within a business today will be a ‘green job’ tomorrow.
Businesses need to get ahead of the curve. This is a problem that we have no option but to solve. And AXA Climate School’s mission is to help every committed organization kickstart their journey with the right enabling knowhow.
A paradigm shift is needed