Carbon Challenge Holding AG announces the opening of its Carbon Challenge Academy (CCA) in Valencia on 10 October. After a successful soft-opening with 28 Masters of International Management students from 15 leading CEMS European business schools during September (see photo), CCA will inaugurate its business training programmes with two carbon management training events for company CEO’s at the end of this month.
CCA is a management academy fully focussed on training and educating current and future business leaders to enable businesses to respond to the implications of climate change. CCA’s learning architecture is built on “experience-based learning”, with sailing being a core element of all training programmes. It was for this reason that Carbon Challenge looked at the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race as a platform for demonstrating success through carbon consciousness and building partnerships with the business community.
Tom Weaver, Sailing Director for Carbon Challenge, comments: “Our project prompted a great response the corporate community, but timing was too short and the prevailing difficult economic environment too difficult to allow sufficient funding for a competitive Volvo Ocean Race campaign. We were most encouraged by the interest from the business sector and, especially, the sailing community in our efforts to introduce a sustainability focus into the race. It is pleasing that the sustainability theme is becoming increasingly important in sailing and sport events, and we look forward to playing a role in that process”.
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Interview with Frederik Leloup, Director of Carbon Challenge Academy, for the upcoming issue of CEMS’ Alumni Magazine
Frederik, what is your role as the head of the Carbon Challenge Academy?
My role is to assure the implementation of our learning architecture, to constantly monitor and adjust the academy program and to gather experts, academics, business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, coaches able to contribute to our vision of offering best in class training for decision makers in carbon management. This unique combination inside the CCA allows passing from an ambitious inspiring and training program to action and results, as much for the carbon reduction challenge as for the development of business and people. The CCA will demonstrate that the challenge we have to face is a solid opportunity for value creation on the material point of view but also in regards to giving new sense to our professional engagements.
Where do you see CEMS’ particular expertise to support the CCA?
The decision-making is an emotional process based on the conviction that we have (or not). Of course an important rational investment has to be done to prepare this moment. In that perspective the CCA is offering an education to critical minds in carbon management to go out of the common sceptical (or cynical) attitude concerning climate change and its impact on the business sphere, but at the same time to avoid an ideological approach of the question. For me, the business pro has to manage facts and produce results that contribute to the development of the community. In that perspective the widely regarded quality of CEMS academics in business education through the CEMS-MIM program is a very important ingredient to the CCA learning concept to allow the top managers to take things into account.
In which way can experiences from sailing be implemented to the academic world?
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