Course description
CDP Reporting: Measure and Manage Environmental Impact
Determining your sustainability strategy, improving your environmental footprint, and disclosing risk are critical in today’s business world. Business as usual is no longer a viable option as we tackle the challenges of climate change. The CDP reporting framework is a practical, comprehensive tool for measuring and improving environmental performance. This workshop enhances your reporting capability, highlights alignment with other frameworks such as the Global Reporting Index (GRI) and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), and familiarizes participants with the background, methodology, and questionnaire.
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Who should attend?
Corporate citizenship, CSR, and sustainability professionals responsible for quantifying, measuring, or reporting on CO2 emissions proactively or in response to an investor or customer request. This course is also helpful for reporters including suppliers considering reporting for the first time.
Familiarity with your company’s greenhouse gas emissions and/or water and waste usage.
Training content
- The fundamentals and requirements of the four CDP reporting questionnaires, with primary focus on climate and supply chain.
- Strategies to improve disclosure and performance scores when addressing specific questions.
- The implications of defining organizational boundaries using equity share, financial control, or operational control.
- Guided principles for companies and suppliers considering or planning to report for the first time.
Costs
- Member: $1,350.00
- Non-Member: $1,550.00
Certification / Credits
As the Center is a certified CDP training partner, a certificate of completion will be awarded by CDP. Additionally, participants will earn 4 certificate units toward either a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Practice or a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Reporting, 6 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits. This is an elective course for a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Practice and a required course for a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Reporting.
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Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
At the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, we help companies advance and elevate their corporate citizenship to deliver both business and social value, no matter where they are in their corporate citizenship journey. As the leading corporate citizenship membership...