The Strategic Carbon Management course (previously known as a Certificate IV in Carbon Management) is designed to give you a clear and comprehensive understanding of how to performance manage carbon emissions in one accessible course.
This nationally accredited course is based on ISO 16064-1:2006* and uses an MBA-style balanced scorecard approach to performance managing workplace carbon emisions.
Over 16 weeks you are taken through every essential area of managing CO2 emissions, from the basics of climate change and carbon accounting to Life Cycle Assessment and carbon offsetting. Week by week you apply what you have learnt and carry out workplace assessments using real data and interacting with your colleagues.
We have selected the Strategic Carbon Management (Cert IV in Carbon Management) course to help raise funds to support the great work that the Climate Council is doing because as a student of this course you will learn how to performance manage the reduction of organisational greenhouse gas emissions, which is a key way in which humankind can tackle climate change. If you enrol onto this course before the end of 2013 we will donate $100 to the Climate Council.
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Our highly experienced instructors guide you through each stage of building and managing a whole-of-organisation Carbon Management response Plan which will help you ensure your organisaion’s greenhouse gas reduction goals are met in an effective and efficient manner.
Study requirements
The online workshops are spread out, one evening a week, to allow you to gather data from your workplace in between sessions. This data is then used in building a Carbon Management Response Plan.
In addition to attending the online tutorials, you will need to complete up to 15 hours of workplace activities, along with research and assessment tasks each fortnight for the duration of the workshops – a lot of this time will be engaging with colleagues and carrying out research at your workplace. You will also be given a further 4 weeks to consolidate your coursework after the completion of the workshops in order to finalise your working Carbon Management Response Plan.
Business benefits that flow from this training
This training will enable your organisation to:
- Build organisational capacity to implement energy efficiency and carbon reduction plans
- Eliminate dependence on external consultants to measure, monitor, report and implement carbon reductions initiatives
- Build asset capability and eliminate non-recoverable expenses
- Create ownership and accountability for carbon emissions across the business
- Develop common and shared understanding within business teams
- Reduce energy costs and carbon emissions without jeopardising business performance
- Validate and verify a carbon reduction strategy and response frameworks to customers, suppliers, investors, government and stakeholders
The Certificate IV qualification consists of 12 accredited units of competency
These are the Units of Competency (UoCs) that the course is made up of:
- Communicate climate change impacts and recognition of sources of greenhouse gases
- Measure carbon emissions in three scopes
- Evaluate carbon reduction and renewable energy options
- Assist implementation and monitoring of a Carbon Management Response Plan
- Measure and monitor a carbon footprint
- Source, evaluate and purchase carbon offsets
- Develop and communicate a workplace Carbon Management Response Plan
- Implement and monitor a Carbon Management Response Plan
- Complete a carbon Life Cycle Analysis for a product or service
- Evaluate, select and implement a greenhouse gas abatement program
- Market and promote a Carbon Management Response Plan and carbon emissions reduction claims
- Identify and evaluate opportunities for cogeneration, combined cooling, heating and power
Creating a Carbon Management Response Plan (CMRP)
A critical component of the training is for you to demonstrate competency in designing and developing a Carbon Management Response Plan and the strategic management of its implementation into the business. If you do not currently work within an organisation it is possible to partner with course peers – especially those working in large organisations – whom you will be able to work with in order to complete your coursework.
