Certified Carbon Literacy
 

Purpose:
This one day course gives employees and executives a good working knowledge of carbon related factors that will have to be included in their strategies to ensure their departments and businesses are prepared for doing business in a new low-carbon economy.
Companies in every industry need to understand the issues surrounding climate change that are beginning to affect their businesses.
These include: carbon emission measurement, monitoring and reductions, the carbon markets, carbon trading, offsetting strategies, as well as how carbon taxation may affect their companies.
Governments around the world are putting a price on carbon, either through taxation or with a trading scheme. Companies will have to start disclosing and reporting on their annual emissions.

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Course Outline:

  • The Science of Carbon
What is Carbon
What is Carbon Dioxide
Processes: Photosynthesis, Respiration, Sequestration etc
Carbon Cycle
Fossil fuels: oil & coal
What is Global Warming?
What are Greenhouse gases?
  • History
Industrial Revolution
Great Depression 1929 (onset of mass consumption and product obsolescence)
  • Global Warming & Climate Change – Effects and Politics
What is Climate Change, and what is global warming?
Impacts – Social, Economic and Environmental
Kyoto Protocol
International bodies (UNFCCC; IPCC etc)
Copenhagen - 7 Dec ‘09
  • Carbon Markets
Trading
Cap and Trade
Flexibilty Mechanisms (CDM, JI, ET)
Voluntary and Mandatory markets
Value of the markets

Carbon Management
  • Measuring:
What is a Carbon Footprint?
Tools to measure carbon emissions
The GHG Protocol
LCA
Case Studies as examples
Embedded carbon
Reducing
Waste
Low carbon economy
Low carbon living
Low carbon Working
  • Offseting
The basics
Standards and protocols
Benefits and risks
  • Reporting and communicating

Marketing
CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)

Cost: R2250

Dates and Venues


Email: sandrar@globalcarbonexchange. com
Fax: 086 541 6842
Cell: +27 (0) 79 291 8478

 

Registration forms can be completed online at http://globalcarbonexchange.co.za/courses-learners-registration-form.html