The Level 1 program consists of the following courses:

The Level 1 program offers a “Basics of GHG Accounting” Certificate of Training. In celebration of our first 6 months, we are offering the Level 1 Certificate of Program for US$ 2900. This includes the tuition for all three courses and all of the associated proficiency exams. Separately, the Level 1 Program would cost $5,550. The special offer represents a savings of 47%. This special offer ends on 31 July’08.

The Level 2 program consists of the following courses:

The Level 2 program offers an “Advanced GHG Accounting” Certificate of Training. In celebration of our first 6 months, we are offering the Level 2 program for US$5800. This includes the tuition for all six courses and all of the associated proficiency exams. Separately, the Level 2 Program would cost $11,100. The special offer represents a savings of 47%. This special offer ends on 31 July’08.

Many companies and other organizations are taking action to manage their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are a cause of climate change. Starting with an inventory of their sources and emissions (e.g., carbon footprint) is an essential first step to assessing risks, reducing emissions, and tracking performance.

This training course will cover the basics of GHG accounting for organizations. The course materials are based on the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, while referring to the ISO 14064: Part 1 international standard for GHG inventories. ISO 14064 Part 1 is distributed as part of this course. The material taught in this course serves as the basis for almost all of the entity-level GHG reporting programs in the world, such as:
• Carbon Disclosure Project
• U.S. EPA Climate Leaders
• U.S. DOE/EIA 1605(b) program
• The Climate Registry
• The California Climate Action Registry
• The Chicago Climate Exchange
• Mexico GHG Program
• Philippine GHG Accounting & Reporting Program

The course includes quizzes and exercises to help you learn to apply key lessons.
A Certificate of Participation is included as part of the course. A Certificate of Proficiency is available for an additional fee and requires the passing of an exam after completion of the course.
Key concepts covered include:
• GHG accounting principles
• Defining applications for GHG inventories
• Designing and development of GHG inventories,
• Establishing GHG boundaries for an organization,
• Identifying emission sources,
• Tracking emissions over time, recalculations, and establishing a base year,
• Setting GHG reduction targets,
• Inventory quality management,
• Preparing a GHG inventory report, and
• Preparing for verification.

Who should attend:
Anyone with an interest in GHG management and in particular GHG inventory managers, corporate environmental and sustainability managers, investors, and auditors. For example, a client says he wants his company to be “carbon neutral” and you are asked to help them understand their carbon footprint. This course will enable you to intelligently address the issues necessary assess this organization’s GHG emissions.

This course was jointly developed by the World Resources Institute and the HG management Institute.

Many companies are taking action to manage their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are a cause of climate change. Establishing a GHG Information Management System is a critical and valuable step towards reducing staff burdens associated with carbon footprinting, institutionalizing processes, enhancing data quality, streamlining reporting, and increasing analytical robustness.

The training course for setting up a GHG Information Management System includes:
• A step-by-step process to outline key requirements for data collection, data quality, analysis, and reporting.
• Details on how to best utilize existing data systems.
• Outlines steps towards successful integration of data.
• Provides numerous case studies from existing systems for key challenges such as data collection, quality assurance, and creating corporate transparency.

The material in this course builds on the WRI-WBCSD GHG Corporate Protocol and related guidance.
A Certificate of Participation is included in course. A Certificate of Proficiency is available for additional fee and requires the passing of an exam.
Key concepts covered include:
• Linking data management to corporate ghg inventory accounting
• Defining data system requirements, including data collection, quality assurance, analysis, and reporting
• Identifying opportunities to connect data systems
• Addressing uncertainties associated with estimating techniques or data gaps

Who should attend:
Anyone with an interest in GHG management and in particular GHG inventory managers, corporate environmental and sustainability managers, investors, auditors.

Approximate number of working hours to complete: 16 to 20

Approximate number of working hours to complete: 16 to 20

Many organizations are taking steps to better understand, manage, and track their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and several internationally acclaimed resources are available to specifically assist organizations with the essential step of preparing a GHG inventory.  The important role for forests in GHG emissions management is widely recognized, but there are fewer resources to help organizations account for forest-related GHG emissions and removals in their GHG emission inventories.  This course fills this need by providing comprehensive and detailed guidance on developing forest GHG inventories, which will help your organization:

• Track changes in forest GHG emissions and removals over time

• Identify opportunities to increase carbon sequestration
• Identify other opportunities to reduce forest-related GHG emissions
• Participate in GHG reporting programs
• Assess liabilities of and opportunities for participating in future GHG policies

There are a wide variety of GHG programs that include a role for forests and thus provide some guidance on forest GHG accounting. For instance: 

• National GHG Inventories under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Guidelines for National GHG Inventories by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) forest projects
• The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
• The Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS)
• U.S. EPA Climate Leaders
• U.S. DOE/EIA 1605b Voluntary GHG Reporting Program
• California Climate Action Registry (CCAR)

The forest-related guidance provided in these programs ranges in terms of purpose, scope, and specificity.  This course draws on all of these resources and provides comprehensive and flexible guidance specifically on how to prepare an organizational GHG inventory covering forest GHG emissions and removals.  To date, there are no international consensus methods on this topic.  To remain consistent with widely approved international standards, the course draws on the terminology and structure of WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Corporate Standard. 

The course includes examples, quizzes, and exercises to help you learn and apply the material. A Certificate of Participation is included as part of the course. A Certificate of Proficiency is available for an additional fee and requires the passing of an exam after completion of the course.

Key concepts covered include:

• The benefits of developing a forest GHG inventory
• Overview of existing GHG reporting programs that include forests
• How to set boundaries in a forest GHG inventory
• How to characterize forests and what information is important to track over time
• The basic principles of carbon stock accounting
• Specific options, methods, and examples of how to estimate forest carbon stocks  (including carbon in harvested wood products),
• Options include using simple assumptions, publicly available data, and measurement data collected in the forest.
• Guidance to help you choose the right forest carbon stock estimation method for your circumstances
• Methods for estimating emissions from GHG sources in forests
• Resources for estimating non-forest GHG emissions sources that could fall within your organization’s boundaries (i.e., from pulp and paper mills and wood manufacturing facilities)
• How to bring it together into a comprehensive GHG inventory report

Who should take this course:
Anyone with an interest in GHG management of forest lands, and in particular corporate environmental and sustainability managers, investors, and auditors working with organizations that own forested land or engage in activities affecting forested lands.

Approximate number of working hours to complete: 16 to 20

Many companies and other organizations are taking action to manage their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are a cause of climate change. Projects can reduce or avoid GHG emissions that cause climate change. These actions can reduce the overall emissions of a company or to create tradable credits to offset emissions in order to become carbon neutral.

Although no universally accepted GHG Project Accounting standard yet exists, many GHG programs have similar accounting requirements. The Greenhouse Gas Management Institute does not promote any particular standards or protocols, instead providing training focused on the requirements of the most widely accepted GHG standards at present.

This training course will cover the basics of GHG accounting for projects. The course material is based on ISO 14064: Part 2 GHG Standard for Projects and the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol for Projects. ISo 14064: Part 2 is distributed as part of this course. The material taught in this course serves as the basis for Voluntary Carbon Standard 2007 and many other GHG project accounting initiatives, such as:
• GE-AES Greenhouse Gas Credit Program
• IPIECA project guidelines
• Alberta Offsets System

The course includes quizzes and exercises to help you learn to apply key lessons.
A Certificate of Participation is included in course. A Certificate of Proficiency is available for additional fee and requires the passing of an exam after completion of the course.
Key concepts covered include:
• GHG accounting principles
• Defining applications for GHG projects
• Designing and development of GHG projects,
• Identifying sources, sinks and reservoirs and establishing GHG boundaries for the project and the baseline,
• Determining the baseline,
• Quantifying GHG emissions
• Monitoring GHG emissions
• Managing data quality
• Preparing a GHG project report, and
• Preparing for verification.

Who should attend:
Anyone with an interest in GHG management and in particular GHG project and inventory managers, corporate environmental and sustainability managers, investors, auditors.

Approximate number of working hours to complete: 16 to 20

Approximate number of working hours to complete: 16 to 20

Approximate number of working hours to complete: 16 to 20

Approximate number of working hours to complete: 16 to 20

Approximate number of working hours to complete: 16 to 20

• An overview of existing GHG verification approaches such as ISO 14064 Part 3, the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Validation and Verification Manual
• A step-by-step process to planning, executing and completing a GHG verification
• Provides reference case studies including verification GHG inventory developed according to the WRI-WBCSD GHG Protocol for Corporate Accounting and GHG projects developed according to ISO 14064 Part 2.

• planning the verification according to fundamental issues of scope, criteria, objectives, level of assurance and materiality;
• reviewing documentation, controls and procedures
• assessing inherent, control and detection risks
• determining verification approach, activities, sampling and data testing
• performing the verification
• recording findings and making verification conclusions
• developing the verification report and statement

Who should attend: Anyone with an interest in GHG verification and in particular management system, energy and environmental verifiers, as well as GHG inventory managers, project developers, corporate environmental and sustainability managers, and investors.

Pre-requisite Courses:

• Basics of Organizational Inventory GHG Accounting, or equivalent
• Basics of Project-level GHG Accounting, or equivalent

Approximate number of working hours to complete: 20 to 24

This course provides specific guidance to companies completing the Carbon Disclosure Project’s 6th (CDP6) questionnaire. The course is to be accompanied by the course “Basics of Organizational GHG Accounting”, based on the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol for Corporate Accounting.

The objective of the course is to provide the learner with (1) contextual information to help address issues in the CDP6 questionnaire, (2) informative guidance and explanation of the tools and frameworks needed to complete the CDP6 questionnaire, and (3) includes exercises, examples, and case studies to further illustrate use of the relevant guidance and tools.

Key concepts covered include:

Who should attend: The course is designed for companies completing or interested in completing the CDP6 questionnaire or anyone with an interest in GHG management from a corporate and investment perspective.

Approximate number of working hours to complete: The course should take approximately 16 hours to complete. An additional 16 to 20 hours are necessary to complete the Basics of Organizational GHG Accounting.