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The Professional Diploma in Sustainability is designed for professional accountants and auditors working in practice or business who seek a comprehensive understanding of sustainability – and an accreditation to prove it.

Although there are no specific entry requirements for admission to the diploma, it is worth noting that the syllabus content and assessment may be challenging for candidates who do not have any accounting knowledge.

The diploma and certificates are available to all ACCA customers and non-ACCA professionals.

If you’re an ACCA customer, registration and exam bookings will not appear on your myACCA account. If you’re an ACCA member, this can count towards your CPD. 

The Professional Diploma in Sustainability includes four digital courses, each providing an individual certificate and a separate final exam.

You can take any number of courses or complete the entire series, along with a revision and practice module, to obtain the certificate(s) and/or take the exam for the diploma.

The exam fee is not included with the individual courses or the Professional Diploma in Sustainability series, this will need to be purchased separately.

Individual course option
For further information regarding course offerings, including course descriptions, associated fees, and links for purchase, please refer to the list below:


If you would like to complete multiple courses, these can be taken in any order; however, we recommend following the above order of sequence.

You’ll receive a certificate and a digital badge for completing each certification course. These will accumulate into an award if you complete all four certificates in the series.

The courses will provide the foundation of learning for the diploma. If you would like to achieve the diploma, you’ll be required to pass the separate exam.

If you feel you have comprehensive knowledge in this area you can book the exam separately without having to take any of the courses.

Professional Diploma in Sustainability series
The Professional Diploma in Sustainability series includes all four certificates and 10 hours of comprehensive exam preparation.

This does not include the exam fee, this will need to be booked separately.

For further information on the series of separate courses, fees, and link to purchase, please visit ACCA Learning

You’ll receive a certificate and a digital badge for completing each certification courses. These will accumulate into an award if you complete all four certificates in the series.

The series will provide the foundation of learning for the diploma. If you would like to achieve the diploma, you’ll be required to pass the separate exam.


Professional Diploma in Sustainability exam
You will firstly need to complete payment for the exam session via.ACCA Learning 

Once purchased, you’ll be required to register for the exam via the exam registration portal hosted by our examination provider, Pearson VUE.
As a bonus you’ll receive 10 hours of comprehensive exam preparation.


Please look out for an email from accads-noreply@useclarus.com within 3 business days of completing your purchase. You will be prompted to create a password for your account and then to book the exam. Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email with the exam details and instructions. 

You’ll be required to use the same email address across all platforms.

Exam Sessions
The next available exam will take place on 27 May 2025; registration will open on 4 February. 


Please note that you will need to complete both steps above (purchase and registration) by 5 May 2025 to sit the exam on 27 May. After 5 May no further purchases or registration will be accepted. 

Dependant on your location you will be provided options on how you can take the exam, either remotely invigilated, or centre based.

One form of official photo ID such as a passport, driving license, government issued national ID card must be presented to the invigilator on exam day.

The results for the Professional Diploma in Sustainability will be appear on your Clarus account, the results will be released in line with ACCA’s session result dates. For the February session, these will be released in ACCA’s March session results.

Visit ACCA Global for further information.

Special accommodation
ACCA is committed to ensuring that no student is disadvantaged in their examinations because of any special educational need, disability or temporary injury. In order to ensure this we can offer special access arrangements to enable all students to access our exams.
 
Requests for access arrangements will be considered in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. Reasonable adjustments may be made where a disabled person or a person who has suffered accidental injury or acute illness (whether short or long term) would be at a substantial disadvantage in taking an examination compared to someone who is not disabled.
 
For this specific exam, access arrangement requests must be submitted to ACCA at the time of exam booking.

Your information will be forwarded to the appropriate team for review, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

The special accommodation must be processed before you’ll be able to proceed with your exam booking.

Once confirmed, you can book the exam again.

Further support
For more information on the Professional Diploma in Sustainability, visit ACCA Global

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