Course description
The IEMA pathways to net zero course gives clear, consistent guidance on best practices in response to the climate crisis. The course provides supervisors and leaders with a strategic and operational overview of environmental sustainability gifting practical knowledge and skills they can apply to their organisations from day one.
This online training course is designed for all sizes of businesses starting their journey towards sustainability, with an emphasis on responding to net zero and carbon neutrality. It sets out the business case and measures for cutting emissions, and explains practical, focused ways to decarbonize.
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Training content
The course is split into the following module structure:
- Why net zero?
- Responding to net zero
- Greenhouse gas accounting
- Carbon neutrality
- Net zero methodologies
- Developing a decarbonisation plan
- Net zero across the value chain
- Communicating net zero
Assessment
An assessment is completed at the end of the course and is accredited through IEMA. The assessment for this course consists of an online 20 question multiple choice test. You have two attempts to pass this assessment. Further attempts can be purchased for £50 +VAT.
Costs
Multiple purchases
We have formed a collaboration with Astutis and UKGBC and if you purchase both this course (IEMA pathways to net zero - course accredited by IEMA) and ‘An introduction to sustainability in the built environment’. We are pleased to offer both courses for a special price:
- RICS Members: £527 (saving £83)
- Non RICS Members: £710 (saving £126) - (Prices exclude local sales taxes)
Certification / Credits
Learning outcomes
- Explain the urgency of the underlying climate science driving the net zero agenda
- Explain the main international policy context for responding to the climate crisis
- Explain the risks and opportunities of net zero, including future business viability, reputation, supply chain vulnerabilities etc
- Explain the business and environmental benefits of low-carbon goods and services
- Explain the requisite corporate governance, resourcing and accountability for delivering net zero
- Explain how to establish a greenhouse gas inventory across all three scopes
- Explain the main principles of greenhouse gas accounting (including using activity data and emission factors)
- Explain what carbon neutral means and its application for organisations, products and services
- Explain how to establish science-based targets (methodologies)
- Explain how to establish a net zero strategy (near- and long-term targets)
- Implement a decarbonisation plan with suitable targets and milestones to deliver on a science-based target and/or net zero objective
- Explain how to reduce greenhouse emissions where these are influenced but not directly controlled (Scope 3)
- Explain how to communicate externally about responses to the climate crisis, net zero and making robust green claims
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