Fundamentals of Carbon & Emissions Management
Understanding the opportunities and challenges to your organisation
About
The climate is changing, make sure you change with it and take the initiative on what is rapidly emerging as a key business issue.
Forward thinking organisations are now presented with a great opportunity to utilise this push towards a more sustainable future by taking the initiative and using sustainability to increase their competitive edge.
Fundamentals for Carbon & Emissions Management is a brand new seminar that has specifically been designed to provide you with a detailed insight into the opportunities and challenges to your organisation as we move towards a sustainable future. Recent growth in awareness of the climate change agenda and its importance to business presents an entirely new paradigm for any organisation to both reduce risk and build strategic competitive advantage.
This programme will provide you with the knowledge and tools to guide your business in the right direction to ensure you take advantage of the opportunities and challenges that a carbon-constrained global economy presents to your business. As with any new development, early movers will benefit and slow adapters are likely to suffer so take this opportunity to develop the skills to negotiate the complex and changing environmental challenges to your organisation.
Key learning outcomes
• Gain an overview of the issues surrounding climate change and what that means for your business
• Discuss the regulations and protocols of carbon management and discover a framework for understanding carbon and business
• Establish parameters for corporate accounting and reporting of greenhouse gases
• Develop techniques for using operational data for greenhouse gas reduction and business improvement
• Understand the lifecycle of products and the assessment of embedded carbon in products
• Discuss carbon offsetting and the process of buying and selling carbon credits to achieve carbon neutrality for your business
• Demystify the NZ trading scheme by taking a look at what it does and how that affects you
• Understand the opportunities associated with sustainability as a key strategic competitive advantage to your business
Who should attend?
This seminar is applicable to anyone looking to gain a better understanding of the opportunities and implications that carbon and emissions managements presents to their business.
• Finance managers
• Environmental managers
• Directors
• CEOs
• Managing Directors
• Climate change managers
• Sustainability managers
• Risk managers
• Lawyers
• Strategy Managers
Outline
Overview of the Issue – Business and Climate Change
• Climate change
• Greenhouse gases and how they have changed over time
• The history of the debate
• The Stern Report & The IPCC
• What do we have to do to ‘save’ the planet?
• Panic or a strategic imperative – the business value of a GHG inventory
• The emerging carbon market – challenges and opportunities
• Case Study
Framing Carbon Management
• What is carbon management?
• Who does carbon management?
• International regulations and protocols are in place?
• What national regulations and protocols are in place?
• Regulated versus voluntary inventory reporting
• A framework for understanding carbon and business
• Case Study: The Kyoto Protocol
Corporate Accounting and Reporting of GHG – Establishing Parameters
• Setting organizational boundaries
• Setting and tracking operational boundaries
• Managing operational scopes within a supply chain
• Avoiding double counting
• Establishing a base year
• Case Study
Calculating Operational GHG Emissions
• Identifying sources
• Selecting calculation approaches
• Collecting data and selecting emission factors
• Applying calculation tools
• Generating an emission report
• Verification of emission reports
• Defining materiality
• Preparing for verification
• Case Study: GHGs of an Industrial Organisation
Using Operational Data for GHG Reduction and Business Improvement
• Measure – Mitigate – Manage
• GHG reporting to drive business improvement
• Benchmarking
• Reductions in direct vs indirect emissions
• Offsetting for competitive advantage
• Setting corporate GHG target – why and how
• Communicating performance
• Information requirements for a public GHG emissions report
• Longitudinal emissions profiles
• Case Study: Reducing GHG emissions
Carbon Accounting for Projects
• The importance of additionality
• Base lines for projects (dynamic vs static)
• Assessment boundaries
• Primary vs secondary GHG-related effects
• Reporting GHG reductions
Product Life Cycles and the Assessment of Embedded Carbon in Products
• The goals and scope of Life Cycle Analysis
• Life Cycle Inventory analysis
• Life cycle Assessment Analysis
• Data aggregation and validation
• Reporting
• Case Study: Food Miles
Carbon Offsetting
• Why offset?
• What is carbon neutrality
• Buying carbon credits
• Selling carbon credits
• Case Study
The NZ Trading Scheme – What it does and who does it affect?
• Origin of the scheme
• NZ’s unique GHG footprint and vulnerability
• Public perception - ShapeNZ
• Timing of entry
• Direct and Indirect costs to business
• Nature of units and relationship to Kyoto
• How to trade NZU’s
Towards Sustainability as a Key Strategic Competitive Advantage
• Carbon and gas are just a starting pint
• Triple bottom line and holistic sustainability
• The emergence of clean tech
• Review of course
Facilitator
Gael Ogilvie, Senior Principal, URS New Zealand
Gael Ogilvie is a Senior Principal with URS New Zealand and has more than 25 years’ experience in environmental investigations and reporting, gained as a consultant to private and public sector clients in New Zealand, Australia, Asia, and more recently - the Gulf Region. URS New Zealand is part of URS Corporation – the world’s largest engineering design and environmental consultancy firm with more than 50, 000 staff and offices all around the world.
Gael is responsible for the URS New Zealand Climate Change business and has been actively involved in the preparation of more than one dozen carbon footprinting exercises - for a range of clients in the private and public sectors. URS New Zealand’s approach is to work closely with their climate change business clients to provide learning opportunities (for example putting together a robust carbon footprint, understand their performance (for example through benchmarking) and prioritise carbon management strategies.
Gael has also assisted a number of clients develop policy and mitigation/measurement tools to respond to climate change and drafted specific responses to the central government energy and climate change discussion papers and draft legislation. Gael’s climate change work has developed from her more general practice areas in assisting clients integrate sustainable business practices. Gael also has a wide range of expertise in environmental management – developing and implementing environmental performance and management systems, impact assessment, risk assessment, life cycle analysis and ecolabelling.
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