Organisations building the capability to make better sustainability decisions across sustainability, finance, operations and leadership teams.
What you'll learn
How to combine AI with structured decision-making to evaluate options, analyse trade-offs, and identify the least-cost pathway to reducing environmental impact and sustainability-related risk.
Delivery
Tailored to your organisation, your sector, and your sustainability priorities.
How the day runs
Morning: Foundations
How AI actually works, and where it fails: hallucinations, limitations, and how to verify outputs before they influence decisions.
Data governance and responsible AI: what happens to your data, which tools train on it, what should never be shared, and practical rules for safe use.
Using AI efficiently: choosing the right model for the task, managing context effectively, and reducing both cost and energy use.
Prompting for sustainability work: moving beyond generic prompts to structured analysis.
Structured decision-making: framing sustainability decisions around environmental impact, sustainability-related risk, cost, uncertainty, and trade-offs.
Building a reusable prompt library and decision workflows your team can standardise on.
Afternoon: Applied to your work
Working directly with your own data, projects and sustainability challenges.
Turning existing sustainability data into evidence for better decisions.
Mapping and comparing interventions across impact, risk and cost.
Applying least-cost thinking to a real sustainability decision facing your organisation.
Using AI to analyse trade-offs, challenge assumptions, and support, not replace, professional judgement.
Producing practical outputs, including reports, plans or submissions, with a clear distinction between AI-generated content and human verification.
What you leave with
A repeatable approach for combining AI with structured sustainability decision-making.
A reusable prompt library and practical AI workflows.
A completed analysis based on your own organisational data.
The confidence to use AI safely, efficiently and effectively in day-to-day sustainability work.
Practical
Works with the AI tools you already use, including ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude and Gemini. Bring a laptop. Sample data can be provided if you prefer not to use your own.
Beyond general AI training
General AI training teaches people how to use AI. This programme teaches them how to make better sustainability decisions with AI. By combining structured decision-making with practical AI workflows, participants learn how to evaluate options, analyse trade-offs, and identify the least-cost pathway to reducing environmental impact and sustainability-related risk.