Carbon Reporting and Carbon Footprinting Course
- Duration:1 Day
- Cost:£539 + VAT
- Ref:CIMA505
Gear up for a proactive approach to improve business performance
Who is it for
Finance directors, accountants, senior managers and others needing to know about carbon reporting.
What is it about
Speaker Details
Jean-François Lowes BSc, MBA, ACMA, has worked as a management consultant and trainer for nine years following 15 years in financial management. He has worked for Boots the Chemists, Egg, Reuters, Safeways, Harveys of Bristol and the Carbon Trust in a variety of finance and project management roles. He has extensive experience of risk management, business continuity planning and strategic change.
Jon Malcolm BSc, MBA, DipM, has worked for several years in the energy sector, concentrating since 2005 on carbon related areas. He is founder of Xcarbon Limited, a consultancy which helps organisations reduce their carbon emissions.
Jean-François and Jon are currently carrying out carbon-related consulting for two major hotel groups and a premiership football team.
THIS COURSE IS RUN BY CIMA MASTERCOURSES
Course Overview
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Introduction
9.45 Why carbon matters to business
- Climate change and energy issues
- Social influences on competitive strategy
10.00 Climate Change Act 2008
- Emissions targets
- Timetable
- Carbon budgets
- Corporate reporting
- Carbon footprints
10.30 Corporate carbon footprints
- DEFRA guidance on reporting
- Scopes 1,2 & 3
- Standard practice and best practice
- How to produce a corporate carbon footprint
- The Carbon Trust Standard
11.00 Break
11.15 Carbon reporting
- Reporting examples
- Exercise
- Carbon intensity ratios ISO 14064
- Data collection
- Accounting entries
- Strategy implications
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Carbon offsetting
- Additionality Types of carbon credits
- Offset standards
- Exercise
2.15 Green tariffs
- Office For Gas and Electricity Markets (OFGEM) guidelines
- Transparency
2.45 Break
3.00 Product and service carbon footprints
- PAS 2050 – products and services
- Process map
- Boundaries and prioritisation
- Data collection
- BS 8901
- Exercise
4.15 Other legislation relating to carbon emissions
- CRC energy efficiency scheme
- Climate change agreements
- Kyoto Protocol and EU Emissions Trading System
4.45 Course review and summary
5.00 Close of course
What will I get out of it?
Carbon reporting is becoming an integral part of an organisation's strategy to differentiate itself from its competitors in environmental terms. Corporate, product and service carbon footprints are influencing consumer and supply chain purchasing decisions.
This course will help you to:
- understand the implications of the Climate Change Act 2008, and know how to prepare for carbon reporting
- calculate corporate carbon footprints
- calculate product and service carbon footprints prepare and present an organisation's carbon report based on government guidance
- appreciate how carbon offsetting works
- understand the significant differences between corporate carbon footprints and reporting under the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme regulations
6 CPD hours (for non-CIMA members)
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