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OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Environmental and Sustainability Management
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OTHM Qualification
OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Environmental and Sustainability Management
Instructor:
syedwahabali58@gmail.com
04 April, 2022
Description
The objective of this qualification is to develop learners’ understanding of contemporary sustainability and environmental-management issues, including environmental, social and governance considerations in policy, theory and practice.
Learners examine sustainability as a physical phenomenon and evaluate its financial and non-financial effects on organisational performance, governance, policy making and society. The programme also introduces international agreements that influence the sustainability agenda and explores how leadership and organisational culture affect change.
The four mandatory units establish a common foundation in sustainability, environmental science, energy transition, organisational environmental management and research. Learners then select two optional units to develop deeper knowledge in areas such as transformational change, net zero, environmental policy, sustainable finance or business strategy.
OTHM Qualifications is the awarding organisation. The qualification is regulated by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) and carries qualification number 610/3662/6.
Who Is This Course For?
This qualification is suitable for graduates, managers, consultants and experienced professionals who want to understand environmental and sustainability challenges at a strategic level. It may be appropriate for:
- Environmental and sustainability managers seeking postgraduate-level development
- ESG, corporate responsibility and sustainability professionals
- Environmental consultants and advisers
- Managers responsible for environmental performance, energy transition or net-zero planning
- Professionals working in policy, government, non-profit or development organisations
- Business leaders who need to integrate sustainability into strategy and operations
- Finance professionals interested in sustainable finance, ESG risk and disclosure
- Holders of a relevant Level 6 qualification who want to progress towards Master’s-level study
- Experienced applicants with substantial professional practice in a relevant field
Entry Requirements
Learners are typically aged 21 or above. The current OTHM entry profile is likely to include at least one of the following:
- A relevant Level 6 qualification, normally an Honours degree or equivalent from a recognised institution; or
- Relevant professional experience. Applicants should normally have at least three years of professional experience in the field and should confirm the acceptability of that experience with the delivery centre before registration
Applicants who are not from a majority English-speaking country must provide evidence of English-language competence in line with OTHM’s current English-language expectations.
Admission is subject to review of academic qualifications, professional experience, identity and English-language evidence under the current OTHM and centre requirements. Final admission cannot be guaranteed until the evidence has been assessed.
Lessons
Mandatory Units
Unit reference: J/650/9704
Unit details: Level 7 | Mandatory | 20 credits | 100 GLH | 200 TQT | Pass/Fail
Unit aim: Establish a critical foundation in sustainability and its relationship with resilience, economic growth and social responsibility while examining the urgency, ethics and international cooperation associated with environmental and social challenges.
Learning focus
- Understand the core principles, language and competing perspectives of sustainability
- Evaluate linked environmental and social challenges and their effect on society and business
- Assess international collaboration and ethical responsibility in the sustainability transition
Key topics covered
- Sustainability, corporate social responsibility and greenwashing
- Triple Bottom Line and systems thinking
- Resilience, the tragedy of the commons and planetary boundaries
- Ecosystem services, biodiversity loss and climate change
- Doughnut economics, growth and externalities
- Private enterprise, innovation and environmentally significant industries
- Rio Declaration, UNFCCC, Paris Agreement and Kunming–Montreal framework
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- Business ethics, ethical culture and codes of conduct
Indicative assessment: Coursework of approximately 4,500 words covering learning outcomes LO1 to LO5.
Unit reference: K/650/9705
Unit details: Level 7 | Mandatory | 20 credits | 100 GLH | 200 TQT | Pass/Fail
Unit aim: Develop an understanding of the physical foundations of energy systems, carbon emissions and climate change, then evaluate renewable technologies, storage, grid management and the policies required for energy transition.
Learning focus
- Understand climate science, carbon footprints and the environmental effects of energy use
- Compare fossil-fuel and alternative-energy technologies and their impacts
- Evaluate energy storage, grid management and national and international transition policy
Key topics covered
- The carbon cycle, the Anthropocene and climate-system evidence
- Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions, carbon dioxide equivalent and carbon budgets
- Life-cycle assessment and the role of IPCC reports
- Solar, wind, hydro, wave, tidal and geothermal energy
- Biomass, nuclear energy and different forms of hydrogen
- Technology development, market conditions and geographic suitability
- Energy storage, electrification and centralised versus distributed grids
- Battery impacts, rare materials and circular-economy approaches
- The energy trilemma: sustainability, affordability and security
- National policy, international cooperation and decarbonisation pathways
Indicative assessment: Coursework of approximately 4,500 words covering learning outcomes LO1 to LO5.
Unit reference: M/650/9707
Unit details: Level 7 | Mandatory | 20 credits | 100 GLH | 200 TQT | Pass/Fail
Unit aim: Develop the ability to identify environmental aspects and issues, select appropriate measurement and reporting approaches, evaluate management standards and understand the advantages and limitations of environmental management systems.
Learning focus
- Evaluate environmental issues, risks, drivers and stakeholder expectations affecting organisations
- Understand the principles, implementation and evaluation of environmental management systems
- Select suitable methods for environmental assessment, measurement, reporting and improvement
Key topics covered
- Climate impacts, flooding, drought and sea-level change
- Air and water pollution, waste, contaminated land and landfill
- Deforestation, biodiversity loss and resource pressure
- Environmental aspects, impacts, risks and compliance obligations
- ISO 14001:2015 and related environmental management frameworks
- Environmental audits, life-cycle assessment and environmental impact assessment
- Carbon, water and ecological footprinting
- Environmental objectives, indicators and improvement programmes
- Data collection, verification, assurance and sustainability reporting
- Costs, benefits, strengths and limitations of environmental management systems
Indicative assessment: Coursework of approximately 4,500 words covering learning outcomes LO1 to LO4.
Unit reference: T/618/0798
Unit details: Level 7 | Mandatory | 20 credits | 100 GLH | 200 TQT | Pass/Fail
Unit aim: Prepare learners for academically based management research by developing a sound research proposal and addressing the philosophical, practical, methodological and ethical issues involved in environmental and sustainability research.
Learning focus
- Define a relevant research problem, question, aims and objectives
- Critically review literature and develop an appropriate theoretical foundation
- Compare and justify research methods, data sources and analysis techniques
- Prepare a structured and feasible research proposal
Key topics covered
- Research questions, aims, objectives and project planning
- Critical literature reviews and theoretical frameworks
- Academic source selection, credibility and referencing
- Qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method approaches
- Questionnaires, interviews, observation, surveys and case studies
- Sampling, bias, validity, reliability and research limitations
- Qualitative coding and quantitative data analysis
- Research ethics, access, consent and data management
- Methodology justification and research-proposal structure
Indicative assessment: A research proposal of approximately 2,500 words covering learning outcomes LO1 to LO4.
Optional Units — Candidates Select Two
Unit reference: R/650/9708
Unit details: Level 7 | Optional | 20 credits | 100 GLH | 200 TQT | Pass/Fail
Unit aim: Develop knowledge of the tools, leadership behaviours and stakeholder approaches required to plan and deliver large-scale transformational change in organisations responding to sustainability challenges.
Learning focus
- Identify material sustainability issues and the internal and external drivers of change
- Assess organisational readiness, resistance and human responses to transition
- Apply systems thinking, communication and leadership approaches to transformational change
Key topics covered
- Materiality assessment and stakeholder priorities
- Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and Global Reporting Initiative perspectives
- Internal and external change drivers
- Readiness, resistance and organisational culture
- Lewin, Kübler-Ross and learning-cycle change concepts
- Motivation, communication, consultation and negotiation
- Systems thinking, stocks, flows and feedback loops
- Levers of transformation and the Doppelt sustainability-change model
- Leadership styles, diverse teams and ESG governance structures
Indicative assessment: Coursework essay of approximately 3,000 words worth 80%, plus a presentation supported by approximately 800 words of speaker notes worth 20%.
Unit reference: T/650/9709
Unit details: Level 7 | Optional | 20 credits | 100 GLH | 200 TQT | Pass/Fail
Unit aim: Develop a critical understanding of net zero, carbon neutrality, greenhouse-gas accounting, science-based targets, decarbonisation strategies and the need for climate resilience and adaptation.
Learning focus
- Distinguish net zero from carbon neutrality and explain the urgency of emissions reduction
- Apply greenhouse-gas accounting principles and evaluate organisational emissions boundaries
- Assess targets, transition plans, climate risks, adaptation and communications
Key topics covered
- Net zero, carbon neutrality and residual emissions
- Greenhouse Gas Protocol and Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions
- Carbon accounting, emissions factors, boundaries and carbon offsets
- Science-based targets and sector decarbonisation pathways
- Supply-chain emissions, double counting and stranded assets
- Net-zero pledges, credibility, greenwashing and transparent communication
- ISO 14064 and relevant greenhouse-gas reporting principles
- Physical and transition climate risks
- Climate resilience, adaptation finance and technological limitations
- Geoengineering proposals, risks and ethical considerations
Indicative assessment: Coursework of approximately 2,500 words for LO1, LO4 and LO5, plus coursework of approximately 2,000 words for LO2 and LO3.
Unit reference: D/650/9710
Unit details: Level 7 | Optional | 20 credits | 100 GLH | 200 TQT | Pass/Fail
Unit aim: Explore how law, policy and governance address climate change and unsustainability, including the interaction among governments, businesses and civil society, the instruments used to deliver change and the ethics of international negotiations.
Learning focus
- Understand environmental policy, legislation and governance
- Evaluate climate ethics, international agreements and approaches to allocating carbon budgets
- Compare legal, economic and persuasive policy instruments and their real-world effects
Key topics covered
- Environmental law, policy cycles and principles such as polluter pays and precaution
- Climate litigation, civic environmentalism and the just transition
- Ethical approaches to carbon-budget allocation
- Governance within environmental, social and governance frameworks
- Price, quantity, tax, charge, refund and market-based instruments
- Labels, certification, voluntary agreements and reporting
- United Nations, UNEP, UNFCCC and Conference of the Parties processes
- Paris, Glasgow and Dubai climate agreements and biodiversity frameworks
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- Limitations of gross domestic product and alternative progress indicators
Indicative assessment: Coursework of approximately 2,500 words for LO1, LO2, LO5 and LO6 worth 60%, plus coursework of approximately 2,000 words for LO3 and LO4 worth 40%.
Unit reference: K/650/9723
Unit details: Level 7 | Optional | 20 credits | 100 GLH | 200 TQT | Pass/Fail
Unit aim: Examine why banking and finance are central to sustainability transformation, how climate and biodiversity risks affect financial organisations, and how disclosure frameworks, sustainable financial products and ESG ratings influence investment decisions.
Learning focus
- Understand the role of financial institutions and markets in the sustainability transition
- Evaluate physical, transition and regulatory risks and their financial consequences
- Assess sustainable-finance products, disclosure frameworks, ESG data and ratings
Key topics covered
- The financial-services industry and the ESG finance ecosystem
- Banks, capital markets, lending, bonds, shares and asset management
- Physical, transition, legal and stranded-asset risks
- Central banks, regulation and sustainable-finance taxonomies
- Climate and sustainability disclosure frameworks
- Green bonds, sustainable debt, responsible investment and carbon markets
- Sustainability-linked finance and environmental claims
- ESG data, key performance indicators, scoring and ratings
- Differences among ESG rating methods and providers
- ESG labels and their relevance to corporate and retail investors
Indicative assessment: Coursework of approximately 4,500 words covering learning outcomes LO1 to LO4.
Unit reference: L/650/9706
Unit details: Level 7 | Optional | 20 credits | 100 GLH | 200 TQT | Pass/Fail
Unit aim: Equip learners with the language of business sustainability, an understanding of how sustainability affects the value chain, insight into short- and long-term business value, and approaches to holistic accounting and stakeholder collaboration.
Learning focus
- Understand the economic and strategic case for corporate sustainability
- Evaluate sustainability across organisational value chains and performance measurement
- Assess circular business models, stakeholder engagement and responsible marketing
Key topics covered
- Triple Bottom Line and four-, five- and six-capital perspectives
- Economic, business, reputational and societal rationales for sustainability
- Corporate responsibility, sustainable consumption and resource limits
- Sustainability impacts across organisational value chains
- Total Impact Measurement and Management
- Sustainability reporting, GRI, CDP and evolving reporting frameworks
- Waste hierarchy, true cost of waste and circular-economy principles
- Five circular business models and financing challenges
- Responsible marketing, greenwashing and reputational risk
- Stakeholder communication, partnerships and collaboration with NGOs
Indicative assessment: Coursework of approximately 4,500 words covering learning outcomes LO1 to LO5.
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Benefits
- Build Advanced Sustainability Knowledge: Develop a critical understanding of sustainability, resilience, environmental limits, social responsibility and the international frameworks that shape organisational action.
- Understand Environmental Science and Energy Transition: Explore climate science, carbon accounting, renewable energy, storage, grid management and the policy challenges involved in moving towards lower-carbon energy systems.
- Improve Organisational Environmental Management: Learn how organisations identify environmental aspects, assess risks, use management systems and measure, audit and report environmental performance.
- Develop ESG and Strategic Decision-Making: Connect environmental and social issues with governance, finance, policy, value chains, risk and long-term business performance.
- Choose a Relevant Specialism: Select two optional units to focus your learning on transformational change, net zero, environmental politics and policies, sustainable finance or sustainability as a business strategy.
- Strengthen Research and Critical-Analysis Skills: Build the ability to define a research problem, review evidence, select suitable methods and prepare a credible postgraduate-level research proposal.
- Support Career Development: Develop knowledge relevant to environmental management, sustainability, ESG, consultancy, strategy, policy, government and non-profit roles.
- Progress Academically: The 120-credit Level 7 diploma may support progression to an eligible 60-credit Master’s dissertation or top-up stage, subject to the receiving university’s admission and recognition requirements.
Assessment Overview
The official specification lists coursework as the qualification’s assessment method and Pass/Fail as the overall grading type.
- All units are assessed and internally quality assured by the approved centre and externally verified by OTHM
- Assessment is criterion-referenced against the published learning outcomes and assessment criteria
- Learners must provide sufficient evidence to meet every required assessment criterion
- Specific assessment guidance and marking criteria are issued through the official assignment brief after learner registration
- The published unit assessments include written coursework, a research proposal and, for one optional unit, a presentation with speaker notes
- The overall qualification grading structure is Pass/Fail
Exact assignment instructions, submission dates and assessment arrangements are governed by the current OTHM specification, assignment briefs and centre requirements. Learners must submit their own original work and comply with academic-integrity and referencing rules.
What We Offer
- Structured guidance across all four mandatory units and the available optional units
- Support in selecting two optional units that suit the learner’s academic and career interests
- Instructor-led sessions aligned with the current qualification specification
- Clear explanations of sustainability, environmental science, energy transition and ESG concepts
- Unit-by-unit study plans and learning guidance
- Support in interpreting learning outcomes and assessment criteria
- Coursework planning, critical analysis and academic-writing guidance
- Research, source evaluation, Harvard-style referencing and academic-integrity support
- Practical examples connected to organisational environmental and sustainability challenges
- Guidance for the Research Methods unit and development of a research proposal
- Formative feedback and improvement guidance where included in the delivery plan
- Progress monitoring throughout the study period
- Initial admission and document-checking guidance
- Information about Master’s top-up and career-development routes
- Responsive learner support throughout the programme
$90.00
Course Information
- Lessons: 6
- Duration: 1,200 TQT / 600 GLH
- Course level: Advance
- Study Mode: Online
- Language: English, Arabic & Urdu
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