GHG Inventory and Carbon Accounting
Building an inventory that will survive assurance
Covers greenhouse gas accounting to the GHG Protocol, including organisational and operational boundary setting, scope 1, 2 and 3 calculation, emission factor selection and the data quality that determines whether an inventory can be assured.
This course sits alongside our Sustainability & ESG consulting work, so what is taught is what we do.
Who should attend
Course content
Every module is taught with worked examples and exercises drawn from real plant, and adapted to your own process where the course runs in house.
Boundaries
- Organisational boundary under equity share, financial control and operational control
- Operational boundary and what falls into each scope
- Base year selection and recalculation policy
- Consolidating across sites and joint ventures
Scope 1 and 2
- Stationary and mobile combustion, process and fugitive emissions
- Emission factor sources and selecting the right one
- Location based and market based scope 2 accounting
- Renewable energy certificates and what they do and do not allow
Scope 3
- The fifteen categories and screening for materiality
- Purchased goods and services and the spend based against activity based choice
- Supplier engagement for primary data
- Uncertainty and how to report it honestly
Data quality and assurance
- Activity data collection and control
- Calculation documentation and traceability
- Preparing for limited and reasonable assurance
- Common assurance findings
What you receive
- An inventory calculation workbook
- A boundary and scope determination guide
- A data quality and evidence register
- Assessment result and attendance record
What changes afterwards
- Boundaries are set deliberately and documented
- Emission factors are selected with a stated basis
- Scope 3 screening focuses effort on material categories
- The inventory can be assured without rebuilding it
Standards and references
We teach GHG Inventory and Carbon Accounting against GHG Protocol corporate accounting and reporting standard and the codes listed with it, at the edition current when you run it.
Run GHG Inventory and Carbon Accounting for your team
We will come back with dates, the pre-reading it needs and a cost per head. Tell us who is attending, what they already do day to day and whether you want it at your site or delivered online.
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