Ready to make your digital products more sustainable? This course gives you a practical, step-by-step framework to reduce the environmental impact of your digital infrastructure, tackle social and governance challenges, explore questions of digital sovereignty, and create a comprehensive action plan.
Duration
4 sessions
Start
May 2026
Format
Online
This program includes
Focus on practice
Expert perspectives
Real-world case studies
Follow-up support
Certificate & badge
Walk away with...
Custom tools & resources to support your process
Certificate, badge & Linkedin accreditation
A catalogue of actionable next steps
A strong network of sustainability practitioners working on similar challenges in your field
A tailor-made strategy for your digital product or service
Course Overview
Learn to build truly sustainable digital products
Unlock the secrets to aligning teams, engaging key players, and driving sustainable change with actionable strategies and hands-on exercises.
A material issue
Understand your digital value chain
Together we’ll map your digital value chain and run a simplified materiality assessment to uncover hotspots and opportunities for change.
Analyze
Set a baseline: Measure your digital emissions
We’ll dive deeper into measuring your digital carbon emissions. Learn the theory and apply it straight away by analyzing your company’s digital footprint!
Sustainable AI?
Uncover the ecological and ethical implications of AI
AI is a game changer - but for the better? Together we take a critical look at the risks and opportunities of AI for sustainability.
Web design
Time to build a better (more sustainable) web
Bring your web designers and developers to this session to make them understand how to build digital products in the web that have a minimal carbon footprint.
Culture
How to build a product culture around sustainability
If you want to truly change for the better, you need to take a critical look at the way and underlying assumptions of how we build products.
Get buy-in
Craft and pitch your sustainable product strategy
Let’s bring it all together - learn how to wrap the learnings of this course up and convince stakeholders like your leadership team of taking a different path towards building your digital products and services!
What we’ll teach
Everything you need to know about this course at a glance
4 sessions | starting May 5, 2026
Price per seat 1999€, or as part of our membership plan (starting at 1000€). Can't afford it? Let's talk!
All modules
Module 1
May 5, 2026
Kick-off live session
with Francois Burra, Timo Müller
This programme combines a live session at the beginning and end with a series of hands-on, self-paced modules. Together, they are designed to help you understand, apply, and drive digital sustainability in your day-to-day work.
Live session
In this live kick-off session, you will meet your peers and instructors, get an overview of the journey ahead, and learn how to navigate and complete the asynchronous modules.
Module 1: Environmental impact of digital
What you’ll explore
The connection between climate change and digital technologies
The environmental impact of digital products and AI
How to measure and understand your organisation’s digital footprint
What you’ll work on
Identifying Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions in your context
Assessing your organisation’s digital sustainability maturity
Measuring the footprint of a website and identifying concrete improvement levers
Reviewing proven playbooks and extracting practical best practices you can apply quickly
Module 2: Low-carbon products
What you’ll explore
How to embed sustainability into everyday product rituals
What it means to build more sustainable AI products
How to approach discovery and design in a more mindful and frugal way
How to become more carbon-aware in product decisions
What you’ll work on
Identifying what is both realistic and impactful within your organisation
Developing and refining a personal 90-day action and commitment plan
Module 3: Turning ideas into action
What you’ll explore
How to use your influence effectively within your organisation
How to move from scattered initiatives to a focused sustainability roadmap
How to define ownership, timelines, and meaningful success signals
What you’ll work on
Defining your top three priorities for the next three months
Building a 6–12 month digital sustainability roadmap
Crafting clear internal and external messages to drive momentum
Module 2
May 19, 2026
Peer group exchange
with Timo Müller
A space to discuss your current challenges in more depth, exchange perspectives, and learn from the experiences of peers and instructors in a supportive setting.
Module 3
May 26, 2026
Wrap-up and feedback
with Timo Müller , Francois Burra
A dedicated moment to reflect on your progress, celebrate what you’ve achieved, and exchange feedback with peers and instructors in an open and supportive setting.
Module 4
June 2, 2026
Digital Sovereignty
with Timo Müller , Lucie Pourquier
As a final step, we invite you to an additional live working session with the LFCA team, focused on digital sovereignty. Together, we will explore why this topic is gaining importance, where common pitfalls in transitions lie, and how to distinguish between what is meaningful and what may not be worth pursuing.
This session is included in response to strong participant interest. At the same time, it sits slightly outside the core course structure, as it is more exploratory and discussion-based.
You will also be introduced to a practical workshop template to help you assess what is realistic and impactful within your own organisation.
Your instructors
Francois Burra, Strategist
François is the founder of Decarbonade and a Digital Decarbonization Consultant focused on building low-carbon products. He works at the intersection of business, product, and UX strategy, helping teams create simple, human-centered solutions with real climate and business impact. He believes in clarity, transparency, and decisions grounded in facts.
Timo Müller , co-Founder and Product lfca.earth
With more than a decade of experience in building digital products and startups, Timo is the driving force behind lfca's product strategy. Chances are high that the website or app you are reading this text on is programmed and designed by him 🤓
Lucie Pourquier, Sustainability Expert and Educator at LFCA
Lucie is a sustainability professional and educator with dual roles: corporate educator and independent consultant. Lucie's expertise includes creating strategies, managing governance and reporting, and building employee awareness through training programs.
Credentials for your resume
Upon successfully completing this course, you’ll receive a professional certificate to showcase your newly learned expertise. Easily add it to your LinkedIn profile to highlight your commitment to driving meaningful change and advancing your career.
How to enroll
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The social business model of our non-profit is membership-based and designed to help you navigate your entire sustainability journey—from reporting to leadership buy-in and beyond. Check out our membership fees here. Just want to take this course? It’s €1,999 if your company is covering it. Paying out of your own pocket? Reach out, and let’s chat!
Incredible work from everyone who came together to pull this off - a huge thank you! ...for what it's worth, this was way better than any course I've ever taken at university ;)
Isabel Nacke
Senior Corporate PR Manager, Home to go
The course took away my ominous feeling about CSRD being this big insurmountable task - it feels manageable now.
Diana Pauly
Head of Sustainability, idealo
A wide array of content packed into a 9-week course, a must-have for CSRD practitioners! The course allowed me to dive deeper into the mystical world of the new directive and what it actually means, now it feels way easier to approach - thanks to LFCA!
Minni Tynkkynen
Morrow X
I have learnt a huge amount and really value each speaker highly. Great content and discussions throughout the course.
Leena Ceccolini
Founder, Socially Circular
I've found it incredibly insightful and felt like I've learned so much. The speakers have been really engaging… each lesson was packed with valuable information, designed to set us up for real-world success.
Jenna Jones
Sustainability Coordinator, Ableton
In-depth but comprehensible, delivered to a high standard by an impressive range of experts. I came away with a good grasp of the big picture as well as much of the detail… Warmly recommended!
Focus on practice
Expert perspectives
Real-world case studies
Certificate & badge
