Abstract
Environmental leaders who have deep knowledge on global environmental issues such as global warming, natural resources and energy crisis, population issues, in addition to accurate knowledge of environmental risk management and pollution prevention and waste management and recycling, “Environmental Policy”, “Environmental Technology”, “Environmental Management strategy” are needed in the companies and the world. Global environmental issues are getting more complex, and this kind of Environmental leaders continues to be needed in the near future. The graduate school of environmental studies, Tohoku University developed new education system for environmental leader who can create business and technological solutions or environmental strategic policy with such deep knowledge for sustainability.
Five years have passed since this graduate school started the new course called SEMSaT (Strategic Environmental Management and Sustainable Technology Solutions) for environmental leader education, and over 50 students from the companies graduated. In this study, the need for the learning system after graduation in the society, the difficulties in educating them at only 1 University, the need for updating the curriculum constantly, and the need for further theoretical research on methodology of creating new business solutions, are suggested.
