Date: 08 November 2022
Time: 09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Venue: Online

Course Overview 

Carbon footprinting is the starting point of company’s journey to reducing their impact on global warming. A carbon footprint benchmark is established that gives detailed CO2 impacts from all the energies, resources and materials used in the business. Specific datasets are collected and organized in clear templates to establish this benchmark. The organisations are trained to understand the types of data to be collected, and the CO2 impacts associated with the various energies, resources and materials that are measured. It enables companies to understand the global warming impacts of their operations, identify
environmental hotspots and to take action to reduce these impacts. 

Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes

Through knowing their carbon footprint, we will help participants to understand how to measure and report climate change and carbon emissions and how to assess climate risk and opportunity in their organisations. We will share examples of best practise and recommended approaches to setting targets and pathways towards Net Zero and explain other Science based targets.

Course Content

• Understand the basics of climate change, business impacts and
  key trends 
• How can your organisation show climate leadership?
• Why is climate change such an important issue for more and more of our key stakeholders
• What is a Carbon Footprint and how does it relates to business needs? 
• Understanding Scopes 1, 2 and 3, and what a company can do to reduce them 
• Overview of how to measure, report, set targets and decarbonise your business. 
• What are Net Zero, Science Based Targets, Pledges Carbon Neutrality? 
• Select an appropriate approach for your organisation to set and meet emissions targets 
• Understand the principles of organisational and product environmental footprinting 
• Understand the basics of carbon reporting and how to prepare and present annual carbon footprint reports at company, process and product levels
• Understand how to engage with key stakeholders on the topic of climate change 
• Understanding how to assess climate risk and opportunity 

About the Trainer 

Caroline Morgan holds an MSc in Climate Change: Policy, Media and Society from Dublin City University and a BSc in Social Science from University College Dublin. Since completing her studies, she has worked at the DCU Sustainability Office on climate research projects and sustainability initiatives such as the DCU Climate Action Plan and DCU Carbon Footprinting. She has collaborated on projects with multiple higher education institutes on sustainability projects, both in Ireland and abroad, and also on initiatives with the Climate Action Regional Offices (CAROs).