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ISO 14064 Carbon Footprint & GHG Accounting

Build an organisational greenhouse gas inventory that is ready for verification and ESG disclosure.

  • 3 days (24 training hours)
  • Live Virtual / In-House
  • Verifiable certificate

Course overview

Participants learn to quantify and report an organisation’s greenhouse gas emissions in line with ISO 14064-1:2018 and the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, and to prepare the inventory for verification under ISO 14064-3. The course uses a worked inventory for a sample company.

Learning objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Define organisational and reporting boundaries
  • Identify and categorise direct and indirect emission sources, including Scope 3
  • Select activity data and emission factors and calculate emissions
  • Assess data quality and uncertainty
  • Prepare a GHG inventory report and management plan
  • Explain what verifiers check under ISO 14064-3

Benefits

For you

  • Hands-on skills in carbon calculation
  • Understanding of the standards behind ESG and climate disclosure
  • A verifiable Vander certificate

For your organisation

  • A credible baseline for decarbonisation targets
  • Readiness for customer, investor and regulatory carbon reporting requests
  • Lower verification costs through a well-documented inventory

Course content

  1. Day 1

    Standards and boundaries

    ISO 14064 parts 1 to 3, the GHG Protocol, organisational and operational boundaries.

  2. Day 2

    Quantification

    Scope 1, 2 and 3 sources, activity data, emission factors, calculations and uncertainty.

  3. Day 3

    Reporting and verification

    Inventory reports, reduction targets, links to GRI and ESG reporting, verification readiness and assessment.

Who should attend

  • Sustainability and ESG managers
  • Environmental and energy managers
  • Finance and reporting teams involved in ESG disclosure

Prerequisites

Basic spreadsheet skills. No prior carbon accounting experience required.

Assessment & certification

A graded inventory exercise. Successful participants receive a Vander certificate for 24 training hours with a unique, verifiable certificate ID.

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