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If you’re committed to reducing your organisation's carbon footprint, but are struggling to know how to go about it, this course will help.

This 3-hour course will build your understanding of carbon auditing and carbon management, and provide you with practical knowledge about effective carbon reduction solutions. This course is an ideal follow up to our  Climate and Carbon Literacy Training, but equally useful on its own.

Hear from an attendee of our Carbon Management and Solutions training:

When filling in assessments of our journey towards becoming a greener business, these often feel quite onerous and often inappropriate to a business as small and already green as ours mostly is.

It was helpful to have the 3 Scopes clarified, to be able to discuss what is and what isn’t directly our responsibility, and to think about how to communicate concerning the additional responsibilities we also try to address, e.g. dealing with customers’ waste as opposed to our own business waste.

This may seem trivial but actually it’s very helpful for completing ‘green assessment’ forms and for describing our efforts to customers.

Rosie Dent, Low Greenside Farm Campsite

Specifically, we will:

• Highlight the benefits of managing and reducing your carbon emissions, including why it’s so important to do so.
• Build your understanding of sources and magnitudes of carbon emissions from your business, and how that varies between different business types.
• Explain and demystify carbon auditing.
• Help you understand and adopt a robust approach to net zero.
• Inspire you with an introduction to the circular economy, a model for operating sustainably.
• Increase your knowledge of specific solutions for reducing carbon emissions associated with your building energy, travel and transport and the things that you consume as a business. We’ll look at both quick wins and bigger projects, ways to consume less and ways of consuming better.
• Advise you on the specialist help available to develop and implement these solutions and support you with your on-going carbon management.

Throughout the course we will give you time to develop an initial Decarbonisation Plan, filled with ideas generated from our discussions.

There will be an optional 30 mins extra at the end of the course to ask further questions.

MORE INFORMATION

Cost - This event is free to attend.

Eligibility - this event is intended for micro, small and medium sized organisations, that are based in, or operating in the Westmorland and Furness area, and that are either commercial or social enterprises. For detailed eligibility criteria click here. 

Subsidy Control - this training is subsidised by the UK Government and the amount of Minimum Financial Assistance (MFA) subsidy offered is £439 per delegate. For more information on subsidy control click here. 

By booking onto this course you are confirming that receipt of the support will not exceed your organisation’s MFA threshold. The threshold is £315,000 of MFA subsidy cumulated over this and the previous two financial years, as specified in section 36(1) of the Subsidy Control Act (2022). 

Venue - This event will be held via Zoom. Once you register, you'll receive a link to join the event. 

Donations - This event is free to attend, but if you can afford to support us through a donation when you book, this would be hugely appreciated. As a charity, our scope and reach is dependent on the generosity of those who believe in our cause. Thank you for your support.