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How to Measure, Reduce, and Offset your Company’s Carbon Footprint

BIMA and MSQ via FutureLearn

Overview

Explore the different carbon footprint modelling tools

No matter how many green practices you have in place, companies still produce at least some carbon in their operations.

On this six-week course, you’ll be guided through the terminology, measurement techniques, and reduction strategies for your company’s carbon footprint.

You’ll start by examining different carbon footprint modelling tools before a step-by-step guide will help you model your own Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 carbon footprint.

Learn how to reduce and offset your carbon footprint

You’ll explore common strategies for reducing your carbon footprint before examining how and where your company can offset its carbon footprint.

This course will help you navigate the confusing carbon offset landscape to help you find the scheme that works best for you and your business.

With strategies in place, you’ll learn how to track your reductions and create dashboards to report on your progress, improving your brand reputation and showing your customers you’re committed to your green initiatives.

Discover other pledges and environmental sustainability initiatives with the experts at MSQ

Guided by the Chief Sustainability Officer at MSQ, you’ll finish the course with the knowledge and confidence to implement carbon reduction and offsetting strategies and help influence others to do the same.

If you upgrade on this course, we will offset 1 tonne of carbon, as well as plant 5 trees supported by Ecologi. These trees will be sequestering carbon well into the 2050s – helping you leave a carbon offsetting legacy long after you’ve finished with us! See our progress so far.

This course is designed for anyone interested in how companies can help to tackle climate change.

It will be particularly useful to SMEs who are looking to reduce their carbon footprint and to introduce a carbon offsetting scheme to their company.

Syllabus

  • Understanding the key terminology around climate change
    • Introduction
    • Why take action?
    • Understanding greenhouse gases (GHGs) and key terminology
    • What are "net" emissions?
    • End of week quiz
  • Modelling your scope 1 and scope 2 emissions
    • An introduction to modelling
    • Modelling your emissions - getting started
    • Modelling your scope 1 emissions
    • Modelling your scope 2 emissions
    • End of week quiz
  • Modelling your scope 3 emissions
    • Modelling your scope 3 emissions
    • Viewing your base carbon footprint
    • End of week quiz
  • Offsetting and reducing your emissions
    • An introduction to carbon offsetting
    • Where to offset
    • Setting a reduction target
    • Simple reduction strategies
    • End of week quiz
  • Monitoring and reporting on your offsetting and reductions
    • Tracking your current footprint
    • Using the carbon footprint tracker
    • Modelling with multiple offices and multiple countries (advanced)
    • Creating a company dashboard
    • Creating dashboards for a customer
    • End of week quiz
  • Going beyond and influencing – other initiatives
    • Reduction pledges
    • Other pledges and commitments
    • Staff schemes
    • Wrap-up and next steps

Taught by

James Cannings

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