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.
£150 +VAT
Measuring and Managing Your Carbon Performance
£150 +VAT
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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
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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Jenette Stanley –
I enjoyed this course as I believe everyone one of us should look at our carbon footprint both at work and at home due to Climate Change. The course explored several ways that one can reduce their carbon footprint. It also helps one with CPD as this is a skill one can add to one’s CV.
Clarence Choi –
The contents are very comprehensive but delivered in an easy to understand way. I am fully satisfied with the knowledge I obtain and the course meets my expectation.
Joanna Chu Lai Fei –
The course is useful.
Caroline Hayden –
This was a really interesting and relevant course which has inspired me to investigate what more we can do in my organisation
Kathleen Gibb –
this was really good and helpful – though this course will need to be regularly updated as assumptions and measurement stats are hanging fast
Fung Lan Ho –
The course material gives me more ideas on carbon footprint which is useful to me.
Brian Larkin –
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Dallas ONeill –
Very good introduction to the world of GHG accounting and what it may mean for us as a profession.
Sandy Heng –
It gave me the overview I was seeking, along with good nuggets of info to think about on how I can get started on this.
Mark Tindale –
Really good references and worked examples.
Rchael Franklin –
I found the course very interesting, well written / presented. Would definitely recommend if you want to increase your knowledge on greenhouse gas emissions, what they are, how to calculation them and then ways to reduce them.
Scott Dempsey –
very practical and relevant to myself as an accountant, with new opportunity to add value to my organisation
Louise Skinner –
Excellent introductory course which provided the tools to be able to have a go at these reports and indicated some other places to which to refer.
Don Rajapakse –
I am indeed lucky to learn in depth of this matter with tools employed. Well delivered.
Ann-Marie Kerr –
Very helpful introduction to accounting for a company’s carbon footprint
Irene Awala –
Michael Pain –
Prompting and promoting climate considerations
Nicola Hankinson –
I now know a lot more about measuring and managing carbon performance than I did when I started the course