Workshop: Measuring Impact | Enterprise GHG Inventory and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (2012)

This course meets on-line on Tuesdays (March 6, 13, 20, 27) 2012 at 12:00PM Pacific Time for 60 to 90 minutes.  12PM PT | 1PM MT | 2PM CT | 3PM ET

 

Carbon footprinting, both at an organizational and a product level, is an essential skill in bringing sustainability to organizations of all types. Tom Gloria, of Industrial Ecology Consultants, will provide you with an excellent background, rigorous process and concrete tools for conducting a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory of a company and carbon footprint of a product.  The material presented will provide key context, policy trends, and emerging protocols overview, and then present the entire process, including:

•   Selecting relevant protocols and data tools
•   Setting boundaries for your inventory
•   Data gathering
•   Calculating emissions
•   Estimating emissions sources with incomplete data
•   Interpretation of results, and framing of major issues
•   Final reporting writing and other dissemination

The workshop is intended to provide a foundation in the main technical issues so students are ready to take on the task of a GHG inventory or carbon footprint in a wide variety of circumstances.