CSE Accepted as a CDP Silver Education and Training Partner

CSE Accepted as a CDP Silver Education and Training Partner

October 4, 2011

The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in providing high quality carbon management training.

Through this alliance, CSE is strengthening its mission to support organizations, society and governments in making a sustainable difference in the world. This partnership reinforces CSE’s mission to contribute to the formation of Responsible Business worldwide through sustainable innovation, positive impacts, best practices, and organizational excellence. As a partner of CDP, CSE will be listed on the CDP website as a CDP country-specific education and training partner for the USA.

Nikos Avlonas, President and Founder of CSE, reveals that ‘partnering with CDP is a unique opportunity to contribute to the international carbon reporting standards formation and assist organizations to overcome global challenges and shape the new era of financial and policy decision-making’.

Paul Robins, Head of Corporate Partnerships at CDP said “We are delighted to welcome CSE as an education and training partner in the US. High quality carbon management and sustainability training plays a major role in supporting the 3,000 companies which report through CDP and also helps underpin CDP’s aims of seeing corporate carbon management and emissions reductions implemented globally”.

About CSE

The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) is a global sustainability advisory and training organization with offices in Chicago, Athens and Brussels. As a leading training provider, the company has coached over 5000 professionals across 25 countries on Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility and Climate Change topics. CSE is an Approved Training Provider under the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), offering intensive learning workshops on Sustainability in Europe, the USA and Middle East and has certified over 200 professionals as Sustainability (CSR) Practitioners across 5 continents and 25 countries. Certified Sustainability (CSR) Practitioner Training Workshops are held annually in cities across the USA. Since 2007, CSE has been a Carbon Neutral Organization and issues an Annual Sustainability Report based on the UNGC Principles.

To learn how you can “Walk the Talk” with practical implementation of Sustainability & Carbon Footprint strategies and programs within your organization, contact Louis Christopher at (773) 867-8647 or [email protected].

For more information visit www.cse-northamerica.org.

About CDP

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organization holding the largest database of primary corporate climate change and water information in the world. Some 3,000 organizations across the world’s largest economies now measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, water usage and assessment of climate change and water risk and opportunity through CDP, in order that they can set reduction targets and make performance improvements. This data is gathered on behalf of institutional investors, purchasing organizations and government bodies and made available for integration into business and policy decision making. For more information visit www.cdproject.net.