Measuring and Managing Your Carbon Performance
Consumers, employees and major investors are increasingly choosing climate friendly brands. This course explains how a rigorous approach to carbon performance management will enable you to measure your organisation’s carbon emissions and understand how to manage and reduce your carbon footprint.
£100 +VAT
Measuring and Managing Your Carbon Performance
£100 +VAT
Measuring and Managing Your Carbon Performance
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This course will enable you to
- Understand the international standards designed to combat climate change, that organisations need to comply with
- Identify the impact of the main greenhouse gases and define the three Scopes of measurement for carbon emissions
- Manage carbon emissions and learn how to measure them using carbon dioxide equivalents
- Define the differences between Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and how they are measured
- Calculate your organisation’s carbon performance through the six steps of carbon performance management
- Develop a process to manage your organisation’s carbon performance and reduce its carbon footprint
About the course
Organisations in all sectors are facing increasing pressure to improve their carbon performance. Consumers are choosing brands that are climate friendly, employees are becoming selective about who they want to work for, and major investors are diverting huge funds towards those companies that can prove they are managing their carbon footprint effectively.
Improve your understanding of carbon performance through this course with modules on the current international standards, the impact of greenhouse gases and the three different Scopes of measurement. You will learn how to measure your organisation’s carbon emissions and understand how to manage and reduce your carbon footprint.
Contents
International standards
Climate change
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Why is the GGP important?
ISO 14064
PAS 2060 and ISO 14607
New reporting rules
Greenhouse gas emissions
What are greenhouse gases?
Greenhouse gases: the facts
The three Scopes
Categories of measurement
A reporting overview
Measuring carbon emissions
Why measure emissions?
Converting consumption to a common unit
Conversion tables: a tour
Tools for calculating carbon emissions
Scope 3 emissions
A complex calculation
Scope 3 emissions
Starting to measure
Reducing Scope 3 emissions
Calculating climate impact
Six steps of carbon performance management
A development opportunity
The role of the accountant
Managing carbon performance
Why act now?
Managing your carbon performance
Carbon footprint: top tips
Carbon offsetting
Reducing your climate impact
Lessons learnt
How it works
Author
Ross Maynard
Ross has worked as a consultant and trainer for over 20 years, specialising in finance processes, management information and performance measurement. He supports organisations to understand their processes; facilitates improvement teams; and supports staff to work together as a team to deliver tangible and sustainable improvements.
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