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The Sustainability Focused Project Management Professional Development Organization

Commitment to global citizenship through helping organizations around the world build skills that enable them to participate in and contribute to a healthy economy with a commitment to environmental stewardship through sustainable business practices.

09/08/2026

Your career in sustainability is just beginning. That is exactly why this award exists.

The GPM Fundamentals Award recognizes university students and newly certified GPM credential holders (CSPP™ / GPM-b™ or CSPMs™, certified after October 17, 2025) who apply sustainability principles in real research or project work.

Your submission includes:
📋 An executive summary (up to 350 words) covering your focus, your objectives, and how you applied sustainability principles, with reference to the GPM P5™ Standard where possible
📄 Your full research paper, or a project description with enough detail for the judging panel
📨 A letter of recommendation from your faculty sponsor or supervisor

You do not need years of experience. You need work worth showing.
👉 Submit your application: gpm.org/awards

09/04/2026

The most meaningful recognition comes from the people who know your work best.

The GPM Individual Sustainability Award is peer-nominated. Candidates cannot put their own name forward. A colleague, manager, or team member nominates them based on their real contribution to Sustainable Project Management™.

A strong nomination covers:
📌 Primary contribution (up to 200 words): why this person deserves the award
📌 Two to four additional contributions (up to 125 words each): projects led, processes introduced, articles published, workshops delivered, or conference presentations
📌 Links to supporting material that backs it up

Is there someone in your network who deserves this? Nominate them today.
👉 gpm.org/awards

09/01/2026

Why apply for a GPM Global Sustainability Award? Because recognition does real work for your career and your organization.

🌍 Global visibility among project leaders worldwide
🎓 Independent validation of your sustainability work by an expert commission
💼 A stronger professional and organizational profile
🤝 A place in a worldwide network of sustainability leaders

Three categories. One deadline: October 17.

👉 Start your application or nomination: gpm.org/awards

08/28/2026

✨ The GPM Global Sustainability Awards 2026 are officially OPEN!

Three categories. Three ways to earn global recognition for work that moves sustainable project management forward:

🏆 Individual Sustainability Award: peer-nominated, for professionals who lead the way in applying Sustainability in Project Management
📘 Fundamentals Award: for university students and newly certified GPM-b/CSPP certification holders
🤝 GPM Partner of the Year: for organizations making an outstanding contribution to the GPM mission

Submissions and nominations close October 17, 2026.

👉 Apply or nominate: https://gpm.org/awards

08/26/2026

Most of a project's impact is committed before delivery starts.

Scope, site, mandate, terms. Those are set by whoever authorizes the work, and they carry consequences long after the team has moved on. Cleaner procurement during delivery and accurate reporting afterward are both real work. Neither reaches back to change a decision that was made at the start.

The PMI GPM Guide to Responsible Project Sponsorship, published by PMI and GPM, is out now. It is written for the executives and senior leaders who authorize projects and remain accountable for whether those projects continue to justify their investment.

It covers what the role requires in practice: the mandate a sponsor governs with, the four decisions they own at every gate, the trade-offs that cannot be settled by a project manager alone, and where sustainability belongs in all of it. It also sets out seven accountabilities that define what sponsors own and what weakens governance when it is handed down.

Dr. Joel Carboni on why sustainability is decided in the sponsor's chair: https://gpm.org/perspectives/sustainability-is-a-sponsorship-decision

Get the guide: gpm.org/sponsor

08/17/2026

Most organizations apply real scrutiny to whether a project gets approved. Far fewer apply the same rigor to whether it should continue.

Once work begins, momentum takes over. Progress creates expectation. Investment creates commitment. Continuation becomes the default rather than a decision.

The PMI® GPM® Guide to Responsible Project Sponsorship launched last week. This new post on the PMI blog unpacks some of what it covers: the four decisions every sponsor owns, how governance drifts out of the structure without anyone noticing, and where sustainability actually enters a sponsor's work.

Worth a read if you authorize or govern projects, or if you report to someone who does. Check it out!

https://www.pmi.org/blog/project-sponsor-responsibilities-sustainability

08/14/2026

It's here!
The PMI® GPM® Guide to Responsible Project Sponsorship. The first guide of its kind with a governance model that you can use immediately.

A project can be well managed and still fail. When it does, the cause is rarely delivery effort. It is weakness in the decisions, authority, and governance that shaped the work from the start.

Sponsors authorize projects. They translate strategy into mandates that delivery teams can act on. They govern the trade-offs that project managers cannot resolve on their own. And for the most part, they have carried that responsibility without a shared understanding of what it takes to carry it well. Sponsors have been named, not developed. Accountability has been assigned, not supported.

This guide closes that gap. Sections on mandate, governance, gatekeeping, sustainability, complexity, scale, and the decisions that determine whether projects remain worth doing. It introduces STEWARD, seven sponsor accountabilities that cannot be delegated without weakening governance, plus six practical aids built for the point of decision.

Download it today!
Get it at pmi.org/learning/sustainability & gpm.org/sponsor
If you manage projects, send this to the person who sponsors yours.

08/10/2026

New in Perspectives. Dr. Joel Carboni on the word regeneration and what has to sit behind it.

Calling a project regenerative means saying you left a system better than you found it. That claim needs six things.

- A record of the condition before the project started.
- A clear line around what the claim covers.
- Measures of how the system is working, rather than lists of what was done.
- A monitoring period long enough for the system to respond.
- A named person who owns the monitoring after the project ends.
- An honest account of the harm the project still causes.

Most claims fail on the first one.

The article also names the problem. Regeneration washing is the use of regenerative language and commitments without evidence that any of it changes what an organization decides, buys, or reports.

New EU rules on environmental claims apply from 27 September 2026.

GPM applies the same test to itself. Regenerative Design is published as a competence and carries no certification because too few practitioners can yet provide evidence for it.

https://gpm.org/perspectives-feed/regeneration-requires-evidence-what-the-profession-has-to-be-able-to-show-before-it-uses-the-word

08/04/2026

Stakeholders experience the impacts of a project long after the project team has moved on.

That makes them more than people to be identified, categorized, communicated with, and managed. They are partners in shaping an outcome that is viable, responsible, and capable of creating lasting value.

Meaningful engagement requires project leaders to understand who will be affected, involve them while decisions can still be changed, and remain accountable for the impacts the project creates.

Our latest GPM Perspectives article by Hasyimah Afandi examines why stakeholder partnership is essential for sustainability in project management.

https://gpm.org/perspectives-feed/stakeholders-are-partners-in-the-outcome

07/30/2026

Today is Earth Overshoot Day.

As of July 30, humanity has used everything nature can regenerate in all of 2026. For the next five months, we're living on ecological credit.

The numbers from Global Footprint Network are stark:

🌍 We're consuming resources as if we had 1.73 Earths 🌍 We're using nature 73% faster than ecosystems can regenerate — the highest level of overshoot ever recorded 🌍 Our accumulated ecological debt now equals 20.6 years of the planet's entire regenerative capacity

Overshoot isn't an abstraction. It shows up as deforestation, soil erosion, biodiversity loss, and the extreme weather already disrupting communities and supply chains around the world.

The date can move. Solutions in energy, food, cities, and land use exist today — cutting fossil fuel emissions in half alone would move Earth Overshoot Day back by three months.

Every day past July 30 is borrowed. It's time to .

Learn more: overshootday.org

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