Applications open for SLP Climate Leadership Certificate accelerated, autumn and winter 2026 cohorts
Accelerated programme
10th March 2026 - 10th June 2026
Autumn 2026
9th July 2026 - 9th December 2026
SLP Climate Leadership Certificate

The SLP Climate Leadership Certificate is a uniquely designed climate-focused leadership education programme, awarding successful participants with a certificate from Sustain Labs Paris. The programme focuses on three core aspects: science-driven climate action, purpose-driven leadership, and personal growth, while equipping participants with the skills to navigate ambiguity, drive climate action across sectors, and develop solutions to today’s most pressing sustainability challenges.
With an immersive in-person Climate Leaders Retreat, along with leadership coaching and passion project building with mentorship support, this unique programme also fosters learning and collaboration by creating a community of the most knowledgeable and resilient climate leaders globally.

Why choose the SLP Climate Leadership Certificate?
This programme uniquely blends technical expertise, leadership development, and mentorship, preparing you to drive meaningful change within your organisation and beyond. Learn from the best in climate education, with world-class faculty, expert coaches, and a highly selective cohort of global change-makers.
What will SLP Climate Leaders learn?
Develop a systems thinking approach and skills to lead your organisation’s climate agenda.
Grasp the latest science, accounting, and management of carbon.
Understand nature and nature-based solutions for climate change.
Acquire deep hands-on knowledge about the most cutting-edge technologies for industrial decarbonisation.
Know about current climate-related global regulations and anticipate those on the horizon.
Build purpose-driven leadership skills to drive impactful climate action within your organisation and beyond.
Enhance personal growth with leadership coaching.
Programme Structure
Delivered over four modules, the training combines innovative pedagogy and self-paced interactive learning material. Themes include:
Science of climate change: A deep understanding of the science driving climate action.
Carbon management: Methodologies and tools for carbon accounting and management.
Industrial decarbonisation: Cutting-edge solutions across industries for reducing emissions.
Climate regulations and policies: Navigating current regulations and preparing for future changes.
As part of the SLP Climate Leadership programme, our climate leaders come together for an annual Climate Leaders Retreat in Dubai. This exclusive Climate Leaders Retreat offers an incomparable experience to learn, debate, collaborate on both highly technical topics as well as deep learnings for systems thinking and leadership. The 3 day Climate Leaders Retreat is followed by an immersion into the latest technologies for climate action with VIP access to GITEX. The Climate Leaders Retreat is a credited component of the SLP Climate Leaders Programme for the Autumn and Winter cohorts and is optional for the Accelerated cohort. It includes masterclasses by world renowned experts, workshops, learning journeys, simulations, and immersions.
Programme Curriculum
The program curriculum is structured around 3 Curriculum Pillars - Technical skills, Leadership, and Systems thinking. Each Curriculum Pillar is offered by one or more modes of delivery - Self-paced modules, Masterclasses online, Masterclasses in-person - providing a progressive approach to learning and flexibility.
The program is designed such that aspects of the program that learners are typically able to self-learn are offered through self-paced learning, based on the belief that teachers are no longer information providers but instead add value by sparking deep reflection, inspiration, and conceptual understanding. All aspects covered in self-paced modules are supported by live masterclasses from industry experts, and then complimented by in-person discussions catalysed by leading global academicians during a 3-day SLP Climate Leaders Retreat.
Thus, under the first curriculum pillar of ‘technical skills’, 4 subjects - Science of climate action, Nature & carbon management, Industrial decarbonization, and Climate regulation and policies - are covered through self paced modules as well as masterclasses online. However, we believe that in-person discussions and debates in the classroom and outside of it, provide depth to conceptual understanding, reflection and formation of opinions, that online communications do not. All 4 subjects are therefore also taught during the in-person leadership retreat through Masterclasses in-person, where leading scientists work with learners to question the status quo and reflect.
The second curriculum pillar of ‘Leadership’, is delivered in-person during the 3-day SLP Climate Leaders Retreat. ‘It is an integral skill,’ critical for leaders who need to work critical for leaders who need to work through ecosystems of various departments, board members, regulators, investors, to lead them towards responsible business. Driven by the understanding that such learnings can only be availed through live interventions and experiences, facilitated by expert specialists using powerful scientific techniques, the curriculum pillar for leadership is delivered through in-person workshops, preceded by a personal coaching session or a 10-minute talk that builds on the concept of leadership and what it looks like in action. personal coaching session delivered online to set the pace and context.
The program brings together industry experts as mentors. We understand the need for technical input to climate projects, and the difficulty in attaining this. We also understand that our learners often have a sustainability and climate related project(s) that they would like to drive, if they got the support for it. The project could be an entrepreneurial venture, an entrepreneurial initiative, a new technology innovation, or something else similar. This is why, the program offers Learners work with the opportunity to build their projects by leveraging the expertise within the cohort but also that of the 6 mentors of the program. The third curriculum pillar of ‘Systems thinking runs through the programme in the meeting of masterclasses online, self-paced learning material and leadership coaching or the talk given. SLP Climate Leaders learn about ecosystems through multiple lenses, in turn equipping them to look at the whole picture, rather than silos.’

A learner needs to attain 30 credits to successfully graduate from the programme and be eligible for the certificate.
The Accelerated Programme cohort will be eligible for their programme completition certificate at the end of the programme in June. They will have the option to attend the Climate Leaders Retreat for a Retreat completition certificate.

Programme Offerings
Climate Leaders Retreat
An immersive experience focused on key aspects of climate leadership:
Climate science: Explore trends from the latest data and science, along with the scientific outlook for climate change.
Climate action: Hands-on learning through technology and nature-based solutions.
Climate finance: Strategies to mobilise and deploy funds for sustainability initiatives.
Purpose-driven leadership for organisational change: Build the skills to inspire and lead impactful climate action.
Systems thinking for climate action: Learn how to design and implement systemic solutions.
Mentorship: Receive in-depth guidance and feedback on your passion project.
Apply to one of the 3 cohorts in 2026, based on the dates and duration that work for you


What will the format be?
Self-paced online and interactive learning
1-week in-person Climate Leaders Retreat
1:1 leadership coaching
Passion project with mentorship
Industry immersion



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Programme dates
• Accelerated programme: 10th March 2026 - 10th June 2026
• Autumn 2026 - 9th July 2026 - 9th December 2026
• Winter 2026 - 1st December 2026 - 31st April 2027
Costs
USD 9,550 per participant.
Participants cover their travel, accommodation, and visa for the in-person SLP Climate Leaders Retreat.

Visa Support
The SLP Climate Leadership Certificate programme team will support participants with the visa process. Participants will cover their visa application expenses.
Who should apply to the SLP Climate Leadership Certificate?
The programme is exclusively for leading sustainability and climate action decision-makers within public and private organisations, who are seeking to deepen their knowledge as well as gaining unique skills in working through their organisations and the ecosystem for climate action.
You could be Chief Sustainability Officers, Directors or aspiring C-suite executives who champion sustainability and climate.
To apply for the programme, submit your application HERE.
Accelerated programme: Apply by 15th January 2026
Applications are assessed on a rolling basis
For any queries, write to us at sustain@labsparis.com
Fusion Climate Challenger Campaign
Learn more about the the SLP Climate Leadership Certificate programme and our partnership for the Fusion Climate Challenger Campaign
















