28 February 2012, 10:30am - 4:30pm, 21 Portland Place, London W1
25 April 2012, 10:30am - 4:30pm, 21 Portland Place, London W1

The full footprint of an organisation encompasses a wide range of emissions sources, from direct use of fuels to indirect impacts such as employee travel or emissions from other organisations within the supply chain.

Calculating an organisation’s carbon footprint can be an effective tool for ongoing energy and environmental management. In addition, organisations increasingly want to calculate their carbon footprint in detail for public disclosure including:

• For Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or marketing purposes
• To fulfill requests from business or retail customers, or from investors
• To ascertain what level of emissions they need to offset in order to become ‘carbon neutral’.

For these reasons, a robust approach is needed, covering the full range of emissions the organisation is responsible for.

This course introduces the issues and drivers around Carbon Footprinting and includes a session on improving difficult cases, and also a workshop session to put the theory into practice. Delegates should come prepared to discuss their issues and bring data etc. so that as well as trying a case study they can actually develop their own action plan to take away with them.

The programme for the day includes:

Carbon footprinting
• Why footprint – supply chain pressure and CSR agenda
• Interface with CRC Regulations

Green House Gas reporting
• Selecting your protocol, Carbon Trust, PAS 2050, WRI/WBCSD and ISO
• Future requirements

Carbon footprinting – principles
• Organisational and Operational boundaries
• Emissions Scopes
• Primary and secondary data

Carbon footprinting – practice
• Setting boundaries
• Calculations: Building emissions; transport emissions; process emissions; non-energy emissions (water, waste, public transport)
• Emission factors: What factors to use and where to find them; nonstandard emission factors

Tools and resources

Example footprint calculations

Carbon footprinting – Hints and tips for dealing with difficult cases
• Leased buildings
• CHP
• Green electricity tariffs
• Onsite generation

Delegate exercise using workbook & Defra emission factors
• Calculation of example footprint

On-going management of your footprint
• How the footprint can be reported
• Tracking emissions over time and setting targets

Conclusions and feedback

Speaker:

Our speaker for the day is Dave Covell, who has been involved in climate change management and energy efficiency activities since the late 1980’s and has considerable experience in many industrial and commercial settings. During this time he has developed excellent relationships with clients, colleagues and peers. Dave has developed many GHG inventories for both national and international organisations that have included scopes 1, 2 and 3. He has an effective communication style and is passionate about the work he does. He has account managed major projects for EBRD, Hilton International, BAA and the Health Sector. His wealth of experience and expertise is widely recognised resulting in him being asked to participate in the WRI’s protocol development technical panel, speak at conferences and provide training both in the UK and abroad.

Cost and booking:

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