This 2-day course revisits some of the key concepts, principles and practices, of organizational GHG emissions and removals quantification and reporting, outlined in ISO 14064-1; and summarizes related requirements for carbon footprinting of products, provided by ISO 14067. This refresh then provides the foundation required to know and understand the key principles and requirements for demonstrating carbon neutrality, following a hierarchy on a pathway to Net Zero, outlined by ISO 14068-1. The course aims to explain how the pathway is used in developing a carbon neutrality management plan, the methodologies used for carbon footprint quantification, use of offset, and provides clear guidance for those responsible for the achievement of carbon neutrality.
Who will benefit?
The course will help you:
- Understand the basics of climate change and its impact on Planet Earth and human society
- To know and understand the international trends and efforts to address the climate crisis, including evolving policy and regulatory landscape related to carbon reduction, carbon neutrality, and net zero
- Develop a comprehensive strategy to achieve carbon neutrality, on your pathway to net zero
- Understand the requirements for selection of a carbon neutrality subject and the quantification of its carbon footprint
- Understand the hierarchy on a carbon neutrality pathway in ISO 14068-1, including emission reduction, removal enhancement and possible use of carbon credits for offsetting
- Embed GHG management and carbon neutrality into your environmental and energy management activities
- Improve environmental and energy performance, contributing to reduced risk, carbon emissions, and associated costs
- Enhance your sustainability credentials and improve organizational resilience
Support your organization and local, national, and regional endeavours to mitigate climate risks and wider social and corporate governance efforts
What will I gain?
On completion, you’ll be awarded an internationally recognized BSI Training Academy certificate.
Who should attend?
The pathway to Net Zero and achievement of carbon neutrality is relevant to any organization, of any size, in any sector, and in any country. Through an organization's operations and value chains, carbon neutrality is an important milestone to achieving Net Zero. All functions and levels within an organization can contribute to the achievement of carbon neutrality, so knowledge and understanding of key concepts and principles across an entire organization and its value chain partners can help develop carbon reduction plans and strategies.
Suggested job roles include those responsible for developing, implementing, and managing policies, processes and practices, leading to the achievement of carbon neutrality, such as:
- Technical and non-technical representatives, involved in generating a relevant GHG inventory, reducing GHG emissions, implementing GHG removals, obtaining carbon offsets, and managing the appropriate documentation to confirm the organization’s carbon neutrality status
- Administrators, operatives, technicians, supervisors, managers, senior managers, functional heads, directors, and executive directors requiring knowledge and understanding of carbon neutrality
Those with roles/responsibilities linked directly or indirectly in support of carbon neutrality endeavours, including Environmental Managers, Energy Managers, Sustainability Managers, Corporate Social Responsibility Managers, Environmental, Social and Governance Managers, Public Relations and external consultants
What will I learn?
Our high-impact accelerated learning methodology improves knowledge retention and skill development. This course is interactive and activity-based, resulting in a deeper understanding of the content and more effective application in the workplace.
What is included?
It is now widely accepted that human activity is contributing significantly to negative impacts on our planet. Climate change is one of the most urgent issues of our time. To avoid the worst effects and keep the rise in global temperatures to no more than 1.5°C by the end of the century compared to the pre-industrial scenario, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1 (IPCC) of eminent scientists has identified that we need to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by 40% in this decade and to global net zero by 2050. Fixing the climate change problem and securing a stable, prosperous future for the planet is a key driving force behind climate action.
Carbon neutrality, which is a state of balance between carbon released into the atmosphere and the amount of carbon removed from it, is an important milestone on that pathway to Net Zero.
This 2-day climate change management-carbon neutrality training course will help you:
- Know and understand the key terms, definitions, and process of becoming carbon neutral
- Understand the differences and relationship between carbon neutrality and net zero
- Understand the relationship between carbon neutrality and associated requirements, including top management’s commitment to carbon neutrality, selection of carbon neutrality subject, carbon neutrality management plan, accurate quantification of GHG emissions and removals, emission reduction and removal enhancement, carbon footprint offsetting, reporting, and claiming neutrality, on the journey to net zero
- Plan the activities required to achieve carbon neutrality
- Identify when carbon offsetting is appropriate and how carbon credits work
- Appreciate the importance of verifying/validating declarations of carbon neutrality
Prerequisites
It is recommended that you have completed prior learning relating to the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions and removals, carbon neutrality management planning, and the verification of greenhouse gas emissions, before attending this course.
