Carbon Footprinting

Fees

IChemE member – £700 + VAT
Non-member – £800 + VAT

Course objectives

Climate change is increasingly recognised as the biggest environmental threat we face, and as such it is also becoming a critical business issue. Organisations of all types and sizes are under an increasing pressure to provide information on their carbon footprint and to demonstrate what they are doing to mitigate the effects of climate change.

This course provides essential support in understanding the fundamentals for estimating the carbon footprints of your products and technologies. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), used to calculate the carbon footprint along supply chains, will be explained and applied in a number of practical case studies and hands-on exercises using the CCaLC carbon footprinting software tool. The differences between the ISO 14044 and PAS2050 standards will be examined. The advantages and disadvantages of carbon labelling will also be discussed.

"Excellent lecturing both in style and content. Very good hands-on help."
Annecis

"A very pragmatic approach to a potentially difficult subject."
New Britain Oils 

You will learn 

You can expect to learn about a range of issues related to carbon footprinting, including:

– the requirements of the LCA and carbon footprinting standards ISO 14044 and PAS2050
– how to estimate a carbon footprint of products and technologies for business-to-business and business-to-consumer communication
– how to identify and reduce carbon ‘hot spots’ along supply chains

Who will benefit

This course is aimed at corporate and other organisations, and could in particular be useful for:

- environmental and sustainable development managers
- technical and operations managers
- communications and marketing managers
- R & D managers
- estates and business development managers
- any other professionals who wish to update their knowledge on carbon footprint-related issues

Course outline

Day one

- approaches to calculating carbon footprints
- LCA and carbon footprinting standards ISO 14044 and PAS2050
- introduction to the CCaLC carbon footprinting tool
- hands-on exercise 1: calculating the carbon footpring (business-to-business)

Day two

- hands-on exercise 2
    - calculating the carbon footprint (business-to-consumers)
    - identifying the carbon hot spots
    - minimising the carbon footprint
- discussion and course summary  

Course prerequisites

The course will involve computer exercises so that participants must be familiar with the MS Office and the related software. Participants are also required to bring their own laptop to be able to complete the exercises. The laptops must be enabled for uploading Excel spreadsheets and other MS Office documents as well as executable software. The carbon footprinting tool CCaLC will be used for the hands-on exercise; participants may wish to download this free-of-charge tool from www.ccalc.org.uk prior to the course and familiarise themselves with its functionality. However, this is not necessary to be able to follow the course, as full training will be provided during the course.

Course presenters

Adisa Azapagic
A chartered chemical engineer and a Fellow of the IChemE, Adisa is Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester. She is internationally recognised for her work in life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting and has masterminded the IChemE award winning CCaLC carbon footprinting tool www.ccalc.org.uk She leads a group of 25 researchers at Manchester, working in close collaboration with over 100 companies and other organisations on issues related to sustainable development of industrial systems www.sustainable-systems.org.uk

Dr Harish Jeswani
Harish is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He specialises in carbon footprinting and life cycle assessment. He has been involved in the development of the CCaLC tool and the accompanying case studies.

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