Green Project Management

Tomorrow, the GPM-b becomes the CSPP — the Certified Sustainable Project Professional.

It's a meaningful step, and we didn't want it to pass without honoring how we got here. Since 2013, practitioners around the world have carried the GPM-b onto projects that had never once accounted for sustainability — and changed how that work gets done.

The credential has grown as the field has: from the green movement, to sustainability, to regeneration. The CSPP reflects what the profession demands now. What it does not do is leave anyone behind — everything our community has earned and built carries forward.

Ahead of tomorrow's launch, our founder, Dr. Joel Carboni, wrote a letter to every GPM-b holder — including the 25 pioneers who earned the very first credentials in 2013.

It's worth your time. Read the full letter below.🔗

https://gpm.org/perspectives/to-the-gpm-bs-with-love

The GCC has set the sustainability commitments. The question now is whether the governance architecture exists to carry them into project delivery.

Arab News spoke with our Founder and CEO, Dr. Joel Carboni, on this for their Green & Blue series. The short version: sustainability is not a cost driver when integrated at project initiation. It becomes a cost driver when it is retrofitted after key decisions have already been made. Organisations that build sustainability governance into standard project processes will meet future regulatory requirements without disruption. Those that treat it as a reporting exercise will struggle.

Full piece below, with case examples from Expo City Dubai, the Neom water program and SAWACO.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2643726/saudi-arabia

Project impacts are business activity.

That sentence is going to cost some companies tens of millions of euros but it can be avoided.

Here is why. 👇

https://gpm.org/perspectives/when-the-reporting-floor-moves-projects-must-move-with-it

Happy Earth Day! P5 Version 4 and the Fourth Edition of the Practice Guide are now released!

In 2009, the P5 Standard introduced a structure for identifying sustainability impacts at the project level. In 2013, the first Practice Guide translated that structure into application. The environment those documents were written for no longer exists. Disclosure regimes have hardened. GRI, TCFD, and ISSB S1/S2 now define what organizations are required to report, govern, and defend.

P5 Version 4 is a complete rewrite. Every element is crosswalked to SDGs, GRI, TCFD, and ISSB, so project-level impact data moves into enterprise reporting without reconstruction.

The Fourth Edition Practice Guide formalizes impact thresholds as decision triggers, introduces dynamic materiality into project oversight, and defines how sustainability performance escalates through governance rather than sitting beside it.

These are not updates. They are a governance architecture for projects in 2026.

They are free (as they should be) and we invite everyone in the profession to download them.

You can find them on the GPM website and the PMI website.

P5 at GPM: https://gpm.org/p5
The Guide at GPM: https://gpm.org/standards-and-publications/sustainable-project-management-the-gpm-practice-guide
The Guide and P5 at PMI: https://www.pmi.org/learning/sustainability

At GPM, every day is Earth Day.

But tomorrow, we’re turning up the volume. Not one, not two, but three major announcements are about to drop.

Happy pre–Earth Day. Stay tuned.