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Green Lean Six Sigma for ESG & Carbon Reduction

Green Lean Six Sigma for ESG & Carbon Reduction

Cut carbon, reduce waste, and hit ESG targets using DMAIC, Lean tools, and carbon accounting on real projects
Created byGanesh Ravikumar
Last updated 11/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Run a full DMAIC project whose primary goal is cutting carbon, waste, or another measurable environmental impact
  • Build a green project charter and SIPOC that tie a process to a specific ESG or carbon target
  • Measure Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and turn them into Six Sigma CTQs you can track
  • Map a value stream with a carbon and energy overlay to expose the highest-impact waste
  • Apply Lean tools — the 8 wastes, 5S, kaizen, standard work — to energy and emissions, not just time
  • Use control charts and process capability on environmental data to prove a target is held
  • Score and select suppliers on ESG and run Scope 3 reduction projects across the supply chain
  • Design waste out of a process using circular-economy principles: reuse, remanufacture, recycle
  • Read the GHG Protocol, CSRD, and BRSR well enough to know what evidence a green project must produce
  • Report results credibly and avoid greenwashing by backing every claim with auditable data
  • Lead a Green Belt or Black Belt sustainability project and present it to finance and compliance

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Course content

9 sections • 48 lectures • 3h 26m total length

  • About Your Instructor3:42
  • Why Green Lean Six Sigma, and Why Now4:39
  • What Makes Six Sigma 'Green' — the Core Shift4:14
  • The Business Case: Cost, Carbon, and Compliance4:32
  • Course Roadmap and How to Use It3:19

Requirements

  • Basic familiarity with Lean or Six Sigma (you know what DMAIC stands for) is helpful but not required — core ideas are reviewed
  • No statistics background needed; the math is taught step by step with worked examples
  • A spreadsheet (Excel or Google Sheets) is enough for every exercise — no specialist software to buy
  • Curiosity about sustainability, ESG, or carbon reduction in an operations or manufacturing setting

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

AI is used to reframe the words, fixing spelling mistakes and grammatical mistakes and audio conversion.

Quality leaders are being handed a new target this decade: not just defects per million, but tonnes of carbon, cubic metres of water, and ESG numbers an auditor will check. This course shows you how to use the Lean Six Sigma you already trust to hit those targets — without guesswork and without greenwashing.

You will work through a full DMAIC project with a green lens: a project charter that states a carbon or waste goal, a measurement plan built on Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data, root-cause analysis for energy and material loss, designed experiments to find a lower-carbon process setting, and a control plan that holds the gain. Along the way you map a value stream with a carbon overlay, score suppliers on ESG, build control charts for emissions, and design waste out of a product using circular-economy thinking.

Every concept is taught the way it actually plays out on the floor — a solar-cell line in one example, a food factory in another — with one global, dollar-based case and one India, rupee-based case so the numbers feel real wherever you work. You will also see the regulations that now drive the work: the GHG Protocol, CSRD, and the kind of carbon-accounting evidence a CSRD or BRSR report demands.

I have spent more than twenty years on process and automation projects across manufacturing, supply chain, and e-commerce, and I have watched 'sustainability' go from a slide in the annual report to a number the operations team owns. This course is the practical bridge between those two worlds.

By the end you will be able to scope, run, and defend a green improvement project that saves money and cuts environmental impact at the same time — and prove it with data. Enrol now and turn your Six Sigma skills into measurable climate results.

Who this course is for:

  • Quality and process-improvement professionals (Green Belts, Black Belts) who want to add sustainability to their toolkit
  • Sustainability and ESG officers who need the process discipline to make targets actually happen
  • Operations and plant managers in manufacturing, energy, or climate tech under pressure to cut carbon and waste
  • Environmental compliance specialists who want to connect regulations to day-to-day process work
  • Engineers and analysts in renewable energy or green manufacturing who own efficiency and yield
  • Students and career switchers aiming for a role at the intersection of operations and sustainability

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