Green Of­fice

CBS Green Office manages a collection of real-world business cases, accessible to students and educators alike.

We support the development, publication and promotion of teaching cases focused on sustainability, responsible management and societal and environmental challenges

Green Office manages the Free Case Collection available on The Case Centre and support faculty and students in case writing, teaching with cases, case publication and promotion as well as competency building through case workshops in partnership with Nordic Case House. 

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Contact: Lavinia Iosif-Lazar (li.go@cbs.dk)

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Through the Carbon and Climate Literacy workshops, participants work on the impact of carbon emissions and how to reduce them effectively through their own actions and commitments.

Green Office organizes and manages the development and delivery of the Carbon and Climate Literacy and Action workshops as part of the engagement in the PRME Working Group on Climate and Environment

The workshops are offered on a regular basis for both students and staff and cover the basic science behind climate change, as well as societal, organizational and individual actions and impact.

Participants in the 8 hour workshop have the opportunity to gain the internationally recognized Carbon Literacy Certificate issued by The Carbon Literacy organization.

Contact: Lavinia Iosif-Lazar: li.go@cbs.dk

The Biodiversity Literacy workshops provide a deep dive into the importance of biodiversity and how we can protect it through business and personal initiatives.

Green Office is currently developing the Biodiversity Literacy workshop in collaboration with CBS and Danish and international faculty. The workshop provides participants with the basic science behind biodiversity importance and main societal impacts as well as the current tools for action and increased impact at an individual, organizational and societal level.

Workshops will be available to both CBS students and staff as well as offered online to international participation.

Contact: Lavinia Iosif-Lazar (li.go@cbs.dk)

The Biodiversity Literacy workshop is part of the CBS engagement in the UN PRME Working Group of Climate and Environment.

‘Permahaven’ is a permaculture garden on the grounds of Copenhagen Business School (CBS) campus’ ‘Klimahaven’, next to the Water Tower in front of Nordre Fasanvej Metro Station.

Permahaven serves as a hub for learning and communicating about sustainability where the local community can share their knowledge among themselves and contribute to increasing biodiversity and well-being in the municipality, side by side with CBS students and staff.

CBS students and staff are welcome to join the Permahaven volunteer group as well as all activities organized by the group: link to website

Green Office supports the Permahaven activities and disemination of impact

Contact: Permahaven

Green Office contact: Lavinia Iosif-Lazar: li.go@cbs.dk

CBS’ education offer includes specific Minors focused on sustainability and green transition.

A minor is a com­plete pack­age of single courses or elect­ives with­in a spe­cif­ic aca­dem­ic area. It typ­ic­ally con­sists of three courses that can also be offered as single courses or elect­ives.

Examples of sustainability minors:

• Minor in Build­ing Or­gan­iz­a­tions for Sus­tain­able Fu­tures: Busi­ness and Eco­nom­ics in Trans­formation
• Minor in En­vir­on­ment­al, So­cial, Gov­ernance (ESG): Met­rics, Re­port­ing and Sus­tain­able In­vest­ments
• •inor in Sus­tain­able Busi­ness

You can find the complete list of Minors here: Minors | CBS - Copenhagen Business School

Green office has developed the Green List, a curated overview of CBS research and researchers focusing on sustainability related topics. This list aims to highlight green research at CBS, provide a comprehensive overview of the many different focus areas, and showcase the researchers working within them.

Additionally, we hope the list will serve as a point of connection for those interested in collaborating—both internally at CBS and with external partners—on green topics.

The Center for Greener Business is a pre-project at the Green Office funded by Industriens Fond that explores how researchers can better communicate knowledge to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working with green business. It focuses on identifying key barriers and incentive structures for effective knowledge sharing. The overall aim is to understand how CBS and other Danish universities can improve the communication of research and expertise relevant to green business. At the same time, the project examines how this knowledge can support SMEs’ innovation, strengthen sustainability efforts, and enhance competitiveness.

More information about the project can be found here: https://industriensfond.dk/projekt/center-for-groennere-forretning/

Contact:

Pe­ter Holm Ja­cob­sen: phj.go@cbs.dk

Anna So­fie de Ne­er­gaard: ass.go@cbs.dk 

The CBS Green Office leads this project, supported by the KR Foundation, exploring the potential for establishing a national collaboration platform to advance green economics in research and education—particularly economic perspectives that integrate planetary boundaries. The project aims to assess cross-institutional interest, identify relevant researchers, and outline a conceptual framework, key focus areas, and potential collaborative activities.

Contact:

Pe­ter Holm Ja­cob­sen: phj.go@cbs.dk

Anna So­fie de Ne­er­gaard: ass.go@cbs.dk 

CBS Green Office is responsible external partnerships aimed at supporting CBS researchers within the field of green transition—particularly in accessing funding opportunities and strengthening the impact of research projects.

Green Office collaborates with CLEAN, Denmark’s green business cluster. Through this membership, CBS researchers gain access to a strong network of companies, public actors, and knowledge institutions, as well as opportunities for project development, funding calls, and innovation partnerships within the green transition.

In addition, Green Office has established a collaboration with Gate 21, a partnership between municipalities, regions, companies, and knowledge institutions working together to drive climate action. Gate 21 strengthens partners’ green competencies, supports innovation and scaling, and enables collaboration across sectors to accelerate the transition towards a climate-neutral and circular society.

Contact:

Lasse Søelund: ls.go@cbs.dk

Jens Riemer: jr.go@cbs.dk

The Centre for Sustainability at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) is a multidisciplinary research hub devoted to studying sustainable practices and developments in organisations, markets, and society at large. The Centre for Sustainability provides external stakeholders with easy access to relevant resources and activities at CBS, while also making it easier for CBS faculty to identify opportunities for collaboration with CBS colleagues and researchers from other universities. The Centre for Sustainability is part of the Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC) at CBS. 

Visit Centre for sustainability

Contact: 
sustainability@cbs.dk

The Copenhagen School of Energy Infrastructure (CSEI), a European Research Center at CBS, focuses on the economic policy dimensions of future energy infrastructure to support a successful green transition in Europe. Its research addresses renewable-based and increasingly decentralized energy systems. Based at the Department of Economics, CSEI works closely with industry stakeholders, the European Commission, and society. Key research areas include decentralized energy markets, European energy networks (including innovation, hydrogen, and energy islands), and energy business models and consumer behavior, with a focus on digitalization.

Visit the CSEI Homepage
 

Contact:

Philipp A. Ostrowicz: csei@cbs.dk

CBS Maritime is a research initiative established in 2014, focusing on the challenges and opportunities within shipping, ports, and the broader maritime industry. Its work spans key areas such as strategy, innovation, finance, digitalization, and industry dynamics. With a strong emphasis on sustainability, CBS Maritime explores topics including decarbonization, energy efficiency, and alternative fuels, aiming to support the green transition of the maritime sector. It bridges core business disciplines with broader societal perspectives to address complex industry challenges.

Visit the CBS Maritime Homepage
Contact:

Henrik Sornn Friese hs.si@cbs.dk
Carsten Ørts Hansen ch.om@cbs.dk

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The mission of the CBS Campus Sustainability Programme is to implement the approved campus sustainability strategy and a matching profile with specified goals initiatives.

Simultaneously, the CBS Campus Sustainability Programme wants to include campus users in the green conversion of campus. Thus it will be possible for campus users to register minor projects to be implemented continuously.

The project is led by CBS Campus Services and was launched in 2020.

CBS Campus Sustainability Programme has an ambition to prioritise and ensure synergy between initiatives based on ‘green cases’ which evaluate potential projects as to their impact on the social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainability.

If you wish to know more or have project proposals you are welcome to contact:

CBS Campus Sustainability Manager Anna Gallaus, / Campus Services: agj.cs@cbs.dk

Read more about the CBS Campus Sustainability Strategy and CBS Campus Sustainability Profile & Goals 2020-2025

CBS regularly measures its GHG emissions and works towards reducing out impact. You can find the latest report here. 

‘Permahaven’ is a permaculture garden on the grounds of Copenhagen Business School (CBS) campus’ ‘Klimahaven’, next to the Water Tower in front of Nordre Fasanvej Metro Station. Permahaven serves as a hub for learning and communicating about sustainability where the local community can share their knowledge among themselves and contribute to increasing biodiversity and well-being in the municipality, side by side with CBS students and staff. CBS is one of Scandinavia’s largest business schools, whose main building has been located in Frederiksberg since 2000 and is a permanent part of Frederiksberg’s cityscape. The project consists of three main elements: lifelong learning, biodiversity and well-being.

‘Permahaven’ creates a framework for knowledge sharing about sustainability between CBS students and staff and the local community, inspired by permaculture thinking. Permahaven also strengthens biodiversity and the green corridors in Frederiksberg Municipality as well as increases well-being among the above groups. Why: CBS Campus has a great biodiversity potential if more campus square meters are used for green purposes in line with FRB Municipality’s Biodiversity Strategy. Permahaven also contributes to opening up CBS campus to the local community by enabling voluntary collaboration between CBS actors and various local groups such as children’s and elderly institutions, ethnic minorities and the unemployed. CBS theoretical knowledge about sustainability that can, through Permahaven, be wider communicated to local communities. 

The Permahaven project has been kindly supported by Frederiksberg Fonden.

Learn more about the Permahaven and join the volunteer group here: Permahaven

CBS Library is actively working towards sustainability in their operations and services. 

Throughout the year, CBS Library hosts and promoted lectures and presentations by CBS researchers on the various sustainability topics and organizes sustainability related events and initiatives. 

You can find out more about the CBS Library and join the events here: Bibliotek | CBS - Copenhagen Business School

The Principles for Responsible Management Education focuses on making responsible management integral to all education at CBS. Our goal is to develop a new generation of business leaders capable of managing the complex challenges faced by business and society in the 21st century.

CBS has been an active PRME signatory since 2008. In 2013, CBS PRME received the PRME Champion title and has maintained the honourable title until 2023 when it decided to increase focus on the chairmanship of the PRME Nordic Chapter.

Our mission is to be a global PRME leader by making responsible management integral to all education at CBS and part of our organisational identity. Furthermore, we reflect upon how we enact responsible management education and make such practices explicit.

We envision a world where free education implies responsibility towards society. We strive to address and support global, regional and local responsible management, sustainability and social issues through PRME and through the advancement of the 2030 Agenda.

CBS contact for PRME: Lavinia: li.go@cbs.dk

CBS is a member of the UN Global Compact and the Global Compact Local Network Denmark.  

For more information on the Local network, please visit here.

More information on the UNGC can be found here.

Green Office: 

Lavinia: li.go@cbs.dk

CBS is a member of the GBSN network.

The Global Business School Network is a global network of schools addressing local problems through education and training.

For more information about GBSN, please visit: https://gbsn.org/

CBS contacts for GBSN membership:  

Martin Jes Iversen: mji.si@cbs.dk

Wilbert van der Meer: wm.stu@cbs.dk

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an independent intergovernmental body established by States to strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, long-term human well-being and sustainable development.

CBS is part of the IPBES Denmark local network.

For more information about IPBES Denmark, please visit: IPBES i DANMARK – Det danske koordinationskontor for IPBES

CBS contacts for IPBES membership:

Justine Grønbæk Pors, jgp.mpp@cbs.dk

Aurora aims at equipping students with the skills and mindset to help address key societal challenges through social entrepreneurship and innovation. CBS students can apply for Aurora physical mobility funding to attend single courses, and hackathons at Aurora universities. Aurora university students can attend the CBS Bachelor and Master Summer University courses on Social Entrepreneurship.

Find out more about Aurora: http://www.cbs.dk/aurora