Sustainability, Business and Values (2235.YR.015153.1)

General information

Type:	OPT	Curs:	3,4	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	5 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Year 3	Francesc Lozano Winterhalder	Ciencias Sociales	ENG

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Year 4	Francesc Lozano Winterhalder	Ciencias Sociales	ENG

Workload distribution:

In Class:

- Lectures with discussion, cases....24h
- Presentation of work classes...: 6h

Home work:

The rest of time forecast for 5 ECTS

- To understand the roots of the worldwide environmental crisis and its consequences.
- To be aware of the solutions in front of it.
- To clarify that acting at all level (companies, public sector, private life) is necessary as responsibility and opportunity at the same time.
- To know the worst problem we are facing nowadays al over the world: Climate Change (What is this? Reasons, actions facing the problem?).
- To realize of the necessity of changing our linear economic system to a circular one closing the loop.
- To see a big panorama of the sustainability including worldwide factors, social and ethical aspects.

1. SUSTAINABILITY AS RESPONSIBILITY AND OPPORTUNITY

1.1. Is there an environmental crisis?

1.2. Environmental risk - BP case discussions - Nature is our mother but also our killer - Natural risk and consequences

1.3. Why do we have a crisis?

1.4. The ecological footprint - Biodiversity and planet balance - Why is there important biodiversity? Health, food, biotechnology... - Ecosystems and business

1.5. Are there any solutions for our environmental crisis? - The role of technology - The case Ford - The World Business Council for Sutainable Development

2. SAVING ENERGY

2.1. Climate Change - Carbon Footprint - Six Degrees, a National Geographic Report - Climate vs. weather - The Greenhouse Effect - Reasons of our global warming and Climate Change - Consequences - Two key actions - The European Green Deal - The program Change!

2.2. What kind of energy do we need? - Renewable and not renewable sources of energy - Discussion in groups and short presentation - Worldwide cases - The case of China - Strategies in front energy challenges - The concept of - negawatts - Global Energy Trends report

3. REDUCING IMPACTS

3.1. From a linear economic system to a circular one - Circular Economy workshop

3.2. Environmental Management Systems

3.3. Circular Economy examples in different sectors (Biodiversity, Cities and Climate, Fashion, Finance, Food, Plastics...)

4. CONSIDERING VALUES AND WORLDWIDE FACTORS

4.1. The Story of Stuff - Discussion in groups and sharing results

4.2. Creating Shared Value (M. Porter) - M. Porter in New York (short video) - SV at Nestlé

4.3. Values - Deep roots of our environmental crisis - From a biological evolution to an ethical one - Towards a holistically sustainable development

- Lectures by the professor which aims to generate debate nd always. These are illustrated with an important amount of audiovisual support material.

- Presentation of numerous worldwide cases and examples of corporate success in sustainability that can serve as a model for business transformation towards a corporate sustainability.

- Elaboration and presentation of works by students, analyzing sustainability critically into a company or any issue related to this matter..

- Workshops

- Readings of relevant articles in sustainability

- Elaboration of concept maps

The bibliography and references will be presented at each session.

Group	Teacher	Department
Year 3	Francesc Lozano Winterhalder	Ciencias Sociales

Group	Teacher	Department
Year 4	Francesc Lozano Winterhalder	Ciencias Sociales