Event: CIFAL Newcastle - Carbon Footprint Accounting

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) provides innovative learning solutions to individuals, organizations and institutions to enhance global decision-making and support country-level action for shaping a better future.

Event Objectives:

• To educate learners on the basic concepts related to carbon footprint, its use, and its benefits.
• To provide in-depth knowledge on carbon footprint accounting for entities, products, and events.

Learning Objectives:

• To help learners attain basic concepts related to carbon footprint
• To help learners attain in-depth knowledge in carbon accounting process
• Understand climate change issues and greenhouse gases
• Understand global agreement on carbon emissions
• Understand carbon tax and credit
• Able to plan carbon accounting process for organisation
• Understand and apply life cycle analysis method
• Able to calculate CO2 emissions

Content and Structure:

• Overview of sustainability: Theoretical framework
• High-level dialogues on sustainability
• Introduction to carbon footprint (activity)
• Key sustainability topics (finance, supply chain, strategy)
• Introduction to sustainability reporting
• Sustainability reporting
• Climate-related risks and opportunities
• Data collection, internal control, and reporting

Targeted audience - People who are:

• Responsible to report and plan for strategies to reduce organisation's carbon footprint.
• Product/marketing related department with the need to consider product's carbon footprint.
• Other professionals who may need to involve with the data collection and planning related to carbon footprint.