
SLP Climate Leadership Certificate

The SLP Climate Leadership Certificate is a uniquely designed 5-month climate-focused leadership education program, awarding successful participants with a certificate from Sustain Labs Paris. The program 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 in Dubai, along with leadership coaching and passion project building with mentorship support, this unique program 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 program uniquely blends technical expertise, leadership development, and mentorship, preparing you to drive meaningful change within your organization 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 organization’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 decarbonization.
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 organization and beyond.
Enhance personal growth with leadership coaching.
Program 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.
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Carbon management: Methodologies and tools for carbon accounting and management.
Industrial decarbonization: Cutting-edge solutions across industries for reducing emissions.
Climate regulations and policies: Navigating current regulations and preparing for future changes.
Program Curriculum
The program curriculum is structured around 3 Curriculum Pillars - Technical skills, Leadership, and Project. 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.
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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 acamedicians during a 3 day leadership retreat.
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Thus, under the first curriculum pillar of 'technical skills', 4 subjects - Science of climate action, Nature & carbon management, Industrial decarbonization, and Climate regulationand 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 communuications 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.
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The second curriculum pillar of 'Leadership', is delivered in-person during the 3 day leadership retreat. Leadership training is split into two broad parts - Systems thinking; Knowing & management of self & others. Both parts are integral skills 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 in Dubai, preceded by coaching chemsitry checks and a personal coaching session delivered online to set the pace and context.
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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 entreprenurial venture, an intrapreneurial initiative, a new technology innovation, or somethign 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 7 mentors of the program. The third curriculum pillar of learners building their 'Projects' runs all through the program and is assessed through two simple metrics of attainment of project and the effort put in.

Program offerings
Climate Leaders Retreat (10 - 12 October 2025, Dubai)
A 3-day immersive experience in Dubai, UAE, 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 mobilize and deploy funds for sustainability initiatives.
Purpose-driven leadership for organizational 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.
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Participants will also gain full access to GITEX Impact 2025 (12-15 October 2025), including opportunities to speak in pavilions and engage with global sustainability leaders.



What will the format be?
Self-paced online and interactive learning
3-day in-person Climate Leaders Retreat in Dubai, UAE
1:1 leadership coaching
Passion project with mentorship
Industry immersion at GITEX Impact, Dubai, UAE



Program dates
02 June 2025 - 15 October 2025
Costs
USD 4,250 per participant.​
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Participants cover their travel, accommodation, and visa for the in-person bootcamp in Dubai, UAE.

Visa Support
The SLP Climate Leadership Certificate program team will support participants with the UAE visa process. Participants will cover their visa application expenses.
Who should apply to the SLP Climate Leadership Certificate?
The program is exclusively for leading sustainability and climate action decision-makers within public and private organizations, who are seeking to deepen their knowledge as well as gaining unique skills in working through their organizations 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 program, submit your application HERE.
Last date to apply - 20 May 2025​
For any queries, write to us at sustain@labsparis.com