Environment
Carbon Credit and Emissions Accounting
A practical programme in preparing an organisation’s greenhouse gas inventory under the GHG Protocol and ISO 14064-1 for Scopes 1, 2 and 3, and in the principles of carbon credits, emission reduction projects and their verification.
Overview
About the programme
Duration
3 days
Delivery
Training hall · Virtual · At your premises
Language
Arabic or English
Objectives
Training outcomes
- Understand greenhouse gases, global warming potentials and carbon dioxide equivalent.
- Set the organisational and operational boundaries of the inventory and the base year.
- Calculate Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions from activity data and emission factors.
- Assess data quality and uncertainty and prepare the inventory report for verification.
- Explain the principles of carbon credits: baseline, additionality, permanence, leakage, monitoring, reporting and verification, and the difference between compliance and voluntary markets.
Content
What the programme covers
Day 1: concepts and boundaries
- The seven greenhouse gases covered by the inventory, global warming potentials and carbon dioxide equivalent.
- The GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and ISO 14064-1 with its emission categories.
- Organisational boundaries by the equity share, operational control or financial control approach; operational boundaries and classifying sources into the three scopes; the base year and its recalculation.
Day 2: calculation
- Scope 1: stationary and mobile combustion, process emissions, and fugitive emissions such as refrigerants.
- Scope 2: purchased electricity by the location-based and market-based methods.
- Scope 3: the fifteen categories, how to estimate them and where to start.
- Spreadsheet exercise: activity data multiplied by emission factors and global warming potentials.
Day 3: quality, verification and carbon credits
- Data quality and uncertainty, the inventory data management system, and the inventory report and its verification under ISO 14064-3.
- Carbon credits: reduction and removal projects under ISO 14064-2, baseline, additionality, permanence, leakage, registries and avoiding double counting, and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
- Carbon neutrality claims and ISO 14068-1, followed by the assessment.
Who it is for
Target audience
Sustainability, environment and energy officers, process engineers, and data and reporting staff in industrial and service organisations and government bodies.
Method
Delivery method
Calculation exercises on spreadsheets that participants build themselves on their own laptops, starting with data from a hypothetical organisation and then applied to the organisation’s own data where available. Delivered in person in the hall or at the organisation’s premises, or virtually, in Arabic or English.
Questions
FAQ
Do we need special software?
No. Calculations are done on ordinary spreadsheets; each participant needs a laptop with spreadsheet software.
Can we use our organisation’s data?
Yes. If the organisation prepares one year of fuel, electricity and refrigerant consumption data, participants build a preliminary Scope 1 and 2 inventory from it during the programme.
Does the programme qualify participants to verify emission reports?
No. The programme explains the verification requirements and how an organisation prepares for verification; it does not confer the status of a verification body or certified verifier.
A programme tailored to your organisation
The duration and topics of the programme are adjusted to the organisation's needs, and it is delivered at its site, in a training hall arranged by the Center, or virtually.