Given financial and resource constraints, SMEs adopting Green Productivity (GP) frameworks can navigate the highly competitive, volatile, unpredictable, globalized market. The GP concept combines the three key elements of the environment, profitability, and quality, benefiting producers and consumers alike. ISO standards related to quality, energy, and the environment are powerful means to convert GP options into actions. This benefits SMEs and meets regulatory requirements, while strengthening their triple bottom lines.

Under the APO’s GP 2.0 initiative, developing GP management systems will provide organizations with specific protocols. This e-course covers emerging trends such as GHG emission accounting, life cycle assessment, and the recent ISO standard on the circular economy.

Course Objectives

The main objectives of this course are:

• Highlight GP as a pathway to decoupling industrialization from environmental degradation;
• Understand the key aspects of international standards related to GP frameworks; and
• Deepen understanding of implementation approaches to those standards under the GP concept.
  
  

This e-learning course will cover the following modules:

Module 1: ISO 50001: Energy Management Systems

Module 2: ISO 14064: Quantification and Reporting of GHG Emissions

Module 3: ISO 9001: Quality Management Systems

Module 4: ISO 14040: Principles and Framework of Life Cycle Assessment

Module 5: ISO 59004: Circular Economy

Important Notes:

1. Participants who register to take this course and pass the final examination with a score of 70% or higher will be eligible to receive the APO certificate. Please note that the final examination can be taken only once. Therefore, the most appropriate time to take the examination should be chosen carefully. The self-assessment quizzes are for personal evaluation only and are not related to the final examination results.

2. Participants who perform well in this course and receive the APO certificate will be given preference, on a merit basis, for selection to attend follow-up face-to-face multicountry APO projects on similar topics, when nominated by their NPOs and if slots are available.

3. Notes 1 and 2 are applicable only to participants from APO member countries. Participants from nonmember countries are welcome to take the course for self-improvement, although they will not have an opportunity to attend the follow-up face-to-face multicountry APO projects.

4. Each module is in a prerecorded video format in which the expert delivers presentations by explaining each slide. Participants can access the video by clicking on the link provided under the title of each module.