Course aim

To provide participants with the essential knowledge and practical guidance to successfully update and manage their environmental management system in line with ISO 14001, ensuring conformance and driving continual improvement.

Course description

ISO 14001 remains the leading global standard for environmental management, helping organizations improve performance, meet compliance obligations, and achieve sustainability goals. In addition to technical clarifications, ISO 14001:2026 introduces important updates that reflect emerging international priorities, such as climate change, natural capital, and biodiversity. It also emphasises the importance of supply chain management, adopting lifecycle principles, and effective planning and management of change.  

This one-day transition course is designed for organizations already certified to ISO 14001:2015. It provides clear insight into the new requirements and clarifications, implications for implementation, and guidance on how these amendments impact auditing activities – helping you stay ahead and maintain confidence in your environmental management system.

BSI’s on-demand courses are market-leading and available 24/7. Developed by top subject matter experts, they contain the same high-quality content you will find in our tutor-led training, but with the added benefit of being able to learn at your own pace and at any time.

How will I benefit?

This course will help you:

• Confidently interpret the technical changes introduced in ISO 14001:2026
• Understand how new and revised requirements affect EMS implementation, auditing, and conformity
• Identify and prepare the additional focus areas needed to ensure successful transition and continued certification

What will I learn?

Upon completion of this training, you will be able to:

• Explain the key changes incorporated into ISO 14001 and what they mean for environmental management systems
• Apply the updated requirements to environmental aspects and impacts, ensuring they reflect enhanced expectations on context, climate, and environmental performance
• Implement life cycle thinking into EMS processes, extending control and influence across product and service life cycles
• Implement the new and clarified planning requirements, including managing changes and strengthening risk-based thinking
• Update emergency preparedness and response processes to align with the amended standard
• Identify and gather the audit evidence needed to demonstrate conformance and support a successful transition to ISO 14001:2026

Who should attend?

Designed for ISO 14001 implementers, auditors, management system owners and those who need to understand and implement the changes to ISO 14001:2026. Suggested job roles include:

• Functional team members and managers relevant to environment, energy, sustainability, and corporate responsibility
• Environmental Management Systems managers and team members
• Auditors engaged in EMS auditing to ISO 14001 requirements
• Those who will be involved in advising top management on transitioning ISO 14001:2015-based environmental management system to the new version in an organization

How will I learn?

This is an online, interactive on-demand course. 

Courses are available 24/7 and you can learn at any time and from any place that suits you – you just need an internet connection.

You can learn as fast or as slowly as you want to. You can also take breaks at any time during the course and pick up where you left off when you are ready to continue.

During the access period, you can go back and repeat parts or all the course to refresh and reinforce what you have learned.

The course content is both detailed and engaging, with explanations, activities, and knowledge checks to enhance your learning.

What will I gain?

On completion, you’ll be awarded an internationally recognized BSI Training Academy certificate. Delegates who have already received a BSI Auditor Qualification for ISO 14001:2015, can update their qualification by completing this on-demand course and passing the ISO 14001:2026 Transition Qualification Exam. 

Prerequisites

Prior knowledge and experience environmental management tools and techniques, and of ISO 14001:2015 Amd1:2024 management system requirements, implementation and auditing.

Further information

Benefits of On-Demand for the individual

Convenient - courses are available 24/7 and you can learn at any time and from any place that suits you – you just need an internet connection

Learning pace - You can learn as fast or as slowly as you want to. You can also take breaks at any time in the course and pick up where you left off when you are ready to continue

Information retention - During the access period, you can go back and repeat parts or all the course to refresh and reinforce what you have learned

High-quality materials - Developed by top subject matter experts, course content is both detailed and engaging, with explanations, activities, and knowledge checks to enhance your learning.

Modules

• Module 1
• Module 2
• Module 3
• Module 4
• Module 5