Events

The second part of this course will be held on Wednesday 28^th June, 9.15AM-1.15PM. Your ticket price covers both parts.

Event description

 This accredited Carbon Literacy course, especially for those working or volunteering in the voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE) sector in Cumbria and the North East, will give you the facts about the latest climate science. It will equip you with the skills to calculate your carbon footprint, identify where you can make improvements, and actions to put those improvements in place in your organisation, community or at home. 

This is a great opportunity to take advantage of heavily subsidised training for VCSE groups, with 50% off the usual ticket price, thanks to the Going Green Together project, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and County Durham Community Foundation. This is an ideal opportunity for you and your colleaugues to attend (with up to 3 subsidised places available per organisation) so together you can action the changes in your organisation and capitalise on what you have learned.

Climate and Carbon Literacy training provides a clear understanding of climate science, an awareness of carbon costs and the impacts of everyday activities. It also builds an ability and motivation to reduce emissions on an individual, community and organisational basis. 

This inspiring, informative and interactive accredited training course, split over two half day sessions, will take you concisely through the science of climate change, causes, impacts and solutions. It will provide you with clear and practical advice on how we can all achieve change. It also covers the global, UK and regional picture, what is happening locally, and how to get involved.  

The session presents you with a usable framework for understanding the climate emergency, how soon we need to act, the scale of that action, and what part individuals and organisations in Cumbria and the North East can play in the bigger picture. 

You will leave this session more confident in your knowledge, better able to articulate what needs to be done, and with an increased sense of agency around your ability to be part of that change. 

You will also leave with the ability to begin to develop your own action plans, and to develop training sessions for others, if you wish to do so. 

The session is delivered by expert trainers from Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS). CAfS Co-Chair the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership and run Cumbria’s carbon and climate literacy training programme. Their certified carbon literate trainers bring decades of practical emission-reduction expertise, in-depth knowledge of the local area as well as significant training experience. 

Coursework

In advance of attending part 1 of the accredited course, please watch ‘Climate Change: The Facts’ by David Attenborough (58 mins). This is available at: 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q9WyLPgyuqo  and  BBC iPlayer - Climate Change - The Facts .

Between part 1 and part 2, delegates will be required to spend a short amount of time on coursework (1 hour max) to calculate the impact they have on the climate between sessions using an online tool, to be discussed in part 2:

• https://cafs.org.uk/sustainable-living-guide/cafs-carbon-calculators/  
• https://offset.climateneutralnow.org/footprintcalc. 

Certification

To become certified as Carbon Literate, you must complete a pledge document, pledging significant emission reduction actions as an individual and as part of a wider group, and return this to us within 10 days of the training. The questions on this document are created and assessed by the Carbon Literacy Project, the national body who created the Carbon Literate accreditation. We will submit your completed pledge form to the Carbon Literacy Project for their assessment.

Zoom

Please familiarise yourself with using Zoom prior to attending. This course is interactive and you will need to be able to mute and unmute yourself, have discussions in breakout rooms and use the chat function and follow links by clicking or copying and pasting into your web browser. A laptop or tablet will work better than a phone for this course. You will find comprehensive how to guides on the Zoom website. We are unable to provide dedicated technical support during the training but if you have any questions please email [email protected] at least a week before your course. 

Ticket prices

Tickets are £69 per delegate. This is a special subsidised rate, at 50% off the usual ticket price, exclusively for members of voluntary, community or social enterprise organisations in Cumbria and the North East participating in the Going Green Together project. Up to 3 places are available for each organisation.  Please click on the Book Now link to book you place.

Donations

If you are able to donate extra to support the work of CAfS, you will be able to do so on the booking form. Thank you for your support.