Carbon Footprint Analyst Level 1
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To educate individuals on the key areas required in order to become a carbon footprint analyst. This is a hands on course where the learners will be taken through the logical steps required to complete a carbon footprint assessment. On completion learners will have the skills and knowledge required to complete a small business carbon footprint assessment. |
Course outline
Day 1: Why should we measure carbon:
What is Climate Change?
Climate and weather
What makes the climate change?
How has the climate changed in the past?
The greenhouse effect.
Have people contributed to changing the climate?
Is the globe warming?
Climate change and the future
What are the implications of global warming and climate change?
The Carbon Markets:
An Introduction
The history of carbon markets and the Kyoto Protocol
The Clean Development Mechanism
The Mandatory Market
The Voluntary Market
The state of Carbon Markets Day 2: How do we Measure carbon
What is a Carbon Footprint?
Why do a Carbon Footprint?
Planning to undertake a Carbon Footprint?
What are the Standards for Carbon Footprinting?
What tools are available to undertake a footprint?
How to undertake a Carbon Footprint for a business
Step 1: Setting boundaries
Step 2: Collecting data
Step 3: Data analysis
Quality control and Verification
Reporting and Disclosure
South African Legislation
Day 3: Doing the Footprint
Practical Example via case study
Certification/Accreditation
Carbon Footprint Analyst Courses strictly adhere to the GHG protocol and ISO 14064. Both of these standards are considered global Best practice for carbon accounting and are accepted globally.
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