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147 www.gogreen-project.eu entrepreneur in this process, along with the positive implications of such actions for your business. The training will provide you with the required knowledge, skills and individual competences to understand the impacts of your business on climate change and how to apply effective measures in order to mitigate these impacts by reducing GHG emissions, saving energy, decreasing waste, applying green technology, fostering innovation through new green products and services, training the staff on how to use efficiently energy, raising awareness of energy consumption and waste production. You will also learn to negotiate the need to perform eco-friendly practices and actions in your business, along with how to initiate, form, maintain and manage a green organizational policy that will ensure sustainability through an improved corporate green image and a strong competitive advantage. Your participation in the role-play simulation workshop will allow you to explore realistic situations by interacting with other people in a managed way in order to develop experience and try different strategies in a supported environment. You might be playing a role similar to your own (or likely one that you will perform in the future), or you could play a different one but part of the conversation or interaction that is developed around the business environment. Both options provide the possibility of significant learning, with the former allowing valuable experience to be gained and the latter encouraging you to develop a better understanding of the situation from another point of view. In any case, through the structured role-play, you will get exposed to different sets of opinions and come across multiple perspectives to consider within a challenging environment. Learning objectives The main objective of this role-play simulation workshop is binary as it intends to help you to: 1) Increase your understanding on the following areas: ⮚ Measure and reduce GHG emissions ⮚ Reduce costs by saving energy policies - technology applications ⮚ Reduce costs by training the staff on how to use efficiently energy ⮚ Raise awareness of energy consumption and waste production ⮚ Avoid penalty-fines ⮚ Increase corporate green image ⮚ Improve competitive advantage - first mover advantage ⮚ Encourage innovation of new green products and services ⮚ Provide stakeholders information and 2) Develop your key interpersonal competencies and skills such as: ✔ Critical thinking ✔ Problem-solving based on real-life scenarios ✔ Learning carbon footprint measure technique ✔ Negotiation skills ✔ Collaboration ✔ Judgment and decision-making Scenario The Company decides to invest in GHG management, energy savings and staff behaviour about GHGs emissions and waste. This scenario focuses on a hypothetical business unit that is operating as a Tomato producer in the agricultural sector in your country.

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