ISO 14064 Greenhouse Gas Lead Verifier Module One - Introduction to Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting Training Course
Course Overview
What you'll learn
Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:
-Define the GHG effect, climate change, and identify its key drivers.
-Summarise the current state of climate science and international policy.
-Recognise current international efforts to combat climate change.
-Understand drivers for GHG accounting and reporting.
-Identify major GHG accounting standards and protocols.
-Define GHG accounting and reporting principles and develop accounting boundaries.
-Categorise GHG emissions as Scope 1, Scope 2 or Scope 3.
Course Content :
-GHG Emissions and Climate Change
-GHG Inventory Standards, Guidelines and Protocols – Accounting and Reporting
Who This Course Is For
-Greenhouse Gas emissions and Climate Change practitioners.
-Those intending to undertake the verification and validation of GHG Statements.
-Those intending to become GHG Statement Lead Verifiers
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Before starting this course, learners are expected to have knowledge of the following principles and concepts:
-Climate change principles.
-Organisations and their impact on the environment.
-Environmental management.
-Management systems.
About this course
This training course (consisting of five modules) has been developed by SGS to provide practitioners with the skills and knowledge necessary to undertake a verification of a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory developed in accordance with ISO 14064-1:2018 using the verification standard ISO 14064-3:2019.
In order to successfully complete and a receive a full GHG Lead Verifier ‘Course Certificate’, attendance of all five modules and associated activities in sequence is required. Please note individual certificates will be issued on the completion of each module.
Module One provides an introduction to Climate Change, and to Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting concepts.