Sustainable Management: Online Course with Internship Agreement
Sustainable Management is an online course in EU sustainability reporting as it stands after Omnibus I. It covers CSRD scope, double materiality, the revised ESRS, GHG Protocol accounting, EU Taxonomy KPIs, CBAM, the EUDR, CSDDD supplier due diligence and limited assurance. It suits newcomers to ESG reporting roles. It runs 100 % online for 180 days and includes an internship agreement, for €200.
- 180 days of access
- 100 % online, at your own pace
- Level: beginner · No prior sustainability experience required
- Assessment: 10 quizzes (50 questions) and a final project
- Internship agreement included
- Certificate with a verifiable QR code
- Languages: Spanish, English, French
- Price: €200
Who it is for
- Graduates from a generalist business background aiming at junior sustainability or ESG reporting roles
- Finance and controlling staff asked to produce EU Taxonomy KPIs or carbon figures
- Staff at suppliers receiving due-diligence questionnaires, codes of conduct or data requests from large customers
- Anyone whose CSRD knowledge predates the 2026 Omnibus changes
What do you need to start?
Prior knowledge
- No prior knowledge of sustainability reporting is needed
- Comfort with basic arithmetic and percentages for KPI, emissions and CBAM cost calculations
- Basic spreadsheet use helps with the data-set and calculation exercises
Software and equipment
- A computer with an internet connection
- Spreadsheet software for the calculation exercises
- Power BI, SQL, DAX and Power Query are discussed as job-relevant skills; no software licence is provided
What you'll be able to do
- Determine whether a company falls under the amended CSRD, from which financial year, and at what assurance level
- Identify outdated pre-Omnibus scope advice and explain precisely what has changed
- Assign data owners and build an audit trail from source document to report line
- Design year-on-year tolerance checks and investigate flagged figures against source documents
- Classify emissions into Scopes 1, 2 and 3 and report Scope 2 on location- and market-based bases
- Calculate Taxonomy-eligible and Taxonomy-aligned shares of turnover, CapEx and OpEx
- Apply the 50-tonne CBAM threshold, estimate certificate costs and distinguish CBAM from the EUDR
- Rank suppliers by severity and likelihood of harm to target due-diligence verification
Skills you will practise
- CSRD and Omnibus I
- Double materiality
- ESRS
- GHG Protocol Scopes 1–3
- EU Taxonomy KPIs
- CBAM
- EUDR
- CSDDD due diligence
- ESG data audit trail
- GRI, ISSB, CDP, SBTi
Syllabus
- The EU rulebook after Omnibus I — Who must report under the amended CSRD: the combined employee and turnover test, start dates, limited assurance and the value-chain cap.
- Double materiality, step by step — A repeatable method for assessing impact and financial materiality across topics and sites that an auditor will accept.
- ESRS in practice — The 2026 revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards and the voluntary standard for value-chain companies.
- Building the ESG data set — Data sources, accountable owners, sanity-check controls and the audit trail from source document to reported figure.
- GHG accounting with the GHG Protocol — Scopes 1, 2 and 3, organisational boundaries, and location-based versus market-based Scope 2 reporting.
- EU Taxonomy Article 8 KPIs — Computing eligible and aligned shares of turnover, CapEx and OpEx, including technical screening criteria, DNSH and minimum safeguards.
- CBAM definitive regime and EUDR — CBAM's cost-bearing phase since 2026, the 50-tonne de minimis, certificate cost calculations, and the EUDR's postponed, size-based dates.
- Supply chain due diligence: CSDDD — Post-Omnibus CSDDD thresholds and dates, contractual cascade to suppliers, risk-based supplier ranking and what a code of conduct establishes.
- Limited assurance and the auditor's questions — How limited assurance on a sustainability statement works and how to prepare evidence for the auditor's questions.
- Global frameworks: GRI, ISSB/IFRS S1-S2, CDP, SBTi — What a GRI content index, IFRS S2 climate disclosure, CDP questionnaires and science-based targets ask of a European company.
Internship agreement
An intern with this course could support a sustainability, reporting or finance team: collecting energy and emissions data from departments, documenting audit trails, or drafting parts of a double materiality assessment. Other possible tasks include preparing Taxonomy KPI tables with controlling, checking import volumes against the CBAM threshold, or completing supplier due-diligence questionnaires for procurement.
The internship can run at the same time as the course, within the 180 days of access.
Frequently asked questions
What kind of job does the Sustainable Management course prepare me for?
The Sustainable Management course is built around the work of a junior sustainability and reporting analyst: scoping CSRD obligations, running double materiality, collecting ESG data, calculating GHG emissions and EU Taxonomy KPIs, and handling CBAM and supplier due diligence. The materials note that job postings increasingly combine these tasks with finance, under titles such as ESG analyst or financial controller with an ESG focus.
Which regulations, standards and frameworks does the course actually cover?
It covers the CSRD as amended by Omnibus I (Directive (EU) 2026/470), the 2026 revised ESRS and the voluntary standard for value-chain companies, the GHG Protocol including its Scope 2 Guidance, EU Taxonomy Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852, CBAM under Regulation (EU) 2025/2083, the EUDR, the CSDDD (Directive (EU) 2024/1760), limited assurance, and GRI, ISSB/IFRS S1-S2, CDP and SBTi.
Is sustainability reporting mainly a writing job, or do I need data skills?
The course treats it mainly as a data job. A report line usually draws on several departments, each needing a named owner, and every figure must be traceable from source document to final report for the auditor. The materials point to job market evidence that Power BI, SQL, DAX and Power Query are core skills for this role rather than optional extras, even in small reporting teams.
What could I do during the internship, and who finds the host company?
You find the host company yourself; the school then issues the internship agreement and its annex, which the company signs electronically, usually within one or two working days. Tasks related to the course include gathering energy and emissions data, building audit trails, supporting a materiality assessment, preparing Taxonomy KPI tables with finance, or answering customers' supplier due-diligence questionnaires.
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Content updated: 07/10/2026