Sustainable Green Transitions
Our world is changing all the time, and it seems that it is changing faster than ever. Society, climate, technology, economy, geopolitics, aging population, public health and eating habits are examples. Hardly anything in life is not changing. We like some, while others create fear and anxiety. Some we see coming, others arrive unexpectedly. In general, changes generate a feeling of insecurity: what to expect and how to react? Bigger, more significant changes are called transitions. For example the food economy, like other sectors in the economy, is facing major transitions. The world of more than 9 billion people in 2050 needs to be fed in a sustainable and responsible way, which means an increase in production of at least 60% is needed.
In the module Sustainable Green Transitions, we focus on four of these large, disruptive transitions;
- Food transition, changing food and eating habits, and improving food production methods
- Climate transition, complying with the Paris Agreement and limiting global warming means a considerable reduction of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions
- Energy transition, increasing the production of renewable energy and replacing fossil resources
- Digital transition, using opportunities coming from ICT, sensors, big data and data science
Transitions can be a threat to existing stable configurations facing persistent challenges, but also present an opportunity for more radical, systemic and accelerated change.
All organizations and companies will have to react on such transitions. The new underlying perspective is more than ever based on value creation, networking and sharing, open source, circularity and sustainability. Leading companies, large and small, appear to be able to initiate a fundamental change in their company and to grow towards new sustainable business models. In this process they mobilize their own organization as well as their market and environment.
What will you get out of it?
- Insights into the impact of the following major transitions on business in general: food, climate, energy and digitization.
- Relate this to the importance of food production, in particular in The Netherlands and the EU
- Insights into the four challenges of the food transition: balanced and healthy nutrition, access to food, availability of food, and stability
- Insights into other relevant transitions impacting the global food economy, such as climate, energy and digitalization
- Being able to put the food chain into a broader perspective of global transitions, and be able to see the role of your own organization/company in this spectrum. Being able to see opportunities for your own organization/company and for yourself personally.
- A proactive attitude and consciousness in regard to (continuous) awareness of major transitions and improvement in the food chain.
- Improving communication skills and influencing skills (especially to be able to execute the participants’ improvement proposals).
This module is part of the Modular Executive MBA program, track Business & Sustainable Transitions. You can follow this module separately or follow several modules and complete the full MBA.
