- Certificates
- C101 GHG Accounting
- C102 Organizational GHG Management
- C103 GHG Accounting and Verification
- C104 GHG Offset Projects
- C201 Advanced GHG Accounting
- C204 Advanced GHG Offset Projects
- D301 GHG Verification and Advanced GHG Accounting
- D302 GHG Offset Projects and GHG Accounting
- D303 GHG Offset Projects and Advanced GHG Accounting
- T401 GHG Offset Projects and GHG Accounting and GHG Verification
- T402 GHG Offset Projects and Advanced GHG Accounting and GHG Verification
- Courses
- 101 Introduction to Climate Change
- 102 Introduction to Carbon Markets
- 201 Basics of Organizational GHG Accounting
- 202 Basics of Project-Level GHG Accounting
- 211 GHG Information Management Systems
- 251 Corporate Climate Change Risk Disclosure
- 301 GHG Accounting for Forest Inventories
- 302 GHG Accounting for Forest Projects
- 311 GHG Accounting for Landfill Methane Projects
- 312 GHG Accounting for Coalmine Methane Projects
- 321 GHG Accounting for Energy Efficiency Projects
- 351 CDM/JI: Navigating Kyoto Project Mechanisms
- 401 GHG Verification for Inventories and Projects
- Academic Policies
- Scheduling Courses
- Custom Workshops
- Course Demos
- Webinar Series
- GHG Live
- Faculty
- Michael Gillenwater
- Tom Baumann
- Stelios Pesmajoglou
- Patrick Hardy
- Taryn Fransen
- Rob Fowler
- Cynthia Cummis
- Timothy Simmons
- Lisa Ann Grice
- Penny Baalman
- Raymond Pilcher
- Chad Leatherwood
- Kathryn Bickel Goldman
- Stephen Seres
- Steve McDonough
- Tom Johnson
- Alexia Kelly
- Elizabeth Zelljadt
- Neil Kolwey
- Financial Aid
- Who We Train
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Michael Gillenwater Dean, GHG Management Institute Michael Gillenwater is co-founder of the GHG Management Institute. He is charged with developing and directing the overall instructional program at the Institute. |
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Tom Baumann Director, Strategic Solutions and Partnerships, GHG Management Institute Tom Baumann is co-founder and CEO of ClimateCHECK. Tom contributes to the development of many courses, including project-level, verification, CDP. |
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Stelios Pesmajoglou Director, Professional Programs, GHG Management Institute Stelios Pesmajoglou is responsible for developing the Professional Certification Programs of the GHGMI. |
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Patrick Hardy, ClimateCHECK Faculty, GHG Management Institute Patrick Hardy is Co-Founder of ClimateCHECK.He is a leading expert on greenhouse gas quantification, validation and verification for technologies, projects and company inventories. |
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Taryn Fransen , World Resources Institute Faculty, GHG Management Institute Taryn, along with Angel Hsu, has developed our “Organizational GHG Accounting: State of the Art” course. Taryn Fransen is a Senior Associate with the GHG Protocol Initiative at the World Resources Institute, where she oversees the design and implementation of GHG management programs in developing countries. |
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Rob Fowler, Booz & Company Faculty, GHG Management Institute Rob Fowler is part of the Centre of Excellence in Low Carbon & Sustainability at Booz & Company. He is recognised globally as an expert in climate policy, carbon markets, and their impact on business. |
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Cynthia Cummis, World Resources Institute Faculty, GHG Management Institute Cynthia Cummis is a Senior Associate with the GHG Protocol team at WRI and currently manages the development of the GHG Protocol Scope 3 and Product Standards. She brings more than 10 years of experience in GHG accounting. |
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Timothy Simmons Faculty, GHG Management Institute Tim will be developing our course on “GHG Accounting for Stationary Combustion.” After an early career in physics and operational research Tim turned to energy statistics within the UK government statistical service . This led him to take the post of Head of Energy Statistics in the International Energy Agency for six years during which he became closely involved with the early development of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines on national greenhouse gas inventories. |
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Lisa Ann Grice, ENVIRON International Corp. Faculty, GHG Management Institute Ms. Grice is an internationally known expert in sustainability and greenhouse gas (GHG) management, accounting, and trading. She has more than 20 years of experience advising private companies, industry associations, local and federal governments. |
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Penny Baalman, Managing Director, GHG Offset Services Faculty, GHG Management Institute Penny is a leading expert in the use of forest projects within carbon trading schemes, she has worked in the area since 1999 during which time she has been significantly involved in the development of standards for accounting and other policy and scheme instruments to allow for the credible creation of carbon certificates from forest projects. |
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Raymond C. Pilcher , Raven Ridge Resources Faculty, GHG Management Institute Raymond C. Pilcher has devoted most of his 33-year career to energy project development and management in the fields of coalbed and coal mine methane, underground coal gasification, and other energy and mineral resources. He is an internationally recognized expert in coalbed/coal mine methane resource assessment, development and utilization and an expert on coal mine methane capture and use practices in China. Mr. Pilcher is the author and co-author of numerous published reports and papers concerning coalbed methane and coal mine methane resource evaluation, economics and marketing |
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Chad Leatherwood, SCS Engineers Faculty, GHG Management Institute Chad Leatherwood is a Senior Project Professional with SCS Engineers. He has over 14 years of experience in environmental engineering; specializing in landfill gas energy projects, emission trading markets, air permitting, and pulp and paper processes. Mr. Leatherwood currently provides expertise related to the development of greenhouse gas emission credits from landfill operations. |
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Kathryn Bickel Goldman, Climate Action Reserve Faculty, GHG Management Institute Kathryn Bickel Goldman developed our course on “GHG Accounting for Forest Inventories” and serves on the Advisory Board for the GHG Management Institute. |
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Stephen Seres, Economist Faculty, GHG Management Institute Stephen Seres is an economist working exclusively on climate change policy issues for the past eight years. As an independent consultant, Stephen worked with the public and private sectors on files mainly revolving around the Kyoto mechanisms, and the monitoring and verification of greenhouse gas emissions. |
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Steve McDonough, IHS Faculty, GHG Management Institute Steve McDonough is currently Senior Solutions Manager for IHS, a leading solution provider for GHG, sustainability and EHS information management solutions. Steve’s role is to work with prospects and clients to identify IMS requirements and present custom solutions to meet specific GHG, sustainability, and EHS needs. |
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Tom Johnson, ClimateCHECK Faculty, GHG Management Institute Tom Johnson is delivering our Basics of Project Level Accounting Course, and will also be developing a course on Municipal GHG Measurement and Management. Tom is ClimateCHECK’s Vice President of Greenhouse Gas Management Solutions and head of the ClimateCHECK practice in Toronto, Ontario (Canada). |
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Alexia Kelly, World Resources Institute Faculty, GHG Management Institute Alexia Kelly is a Senior Associate in the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Climate and Energy Program. Alexia’s work at WRI focuses on greenhouse gas emission markets and the role of greenhouse gas offsets in emerging climate change mitigation policy. In addition, Alexia serves on the faculty of the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, where she co-developed and instructs a course on greenhouse gas project accounting. |
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Elizabeth Zelljadt, Point Carbon Faculty, GHG Management Institute Elizabeth (Lisa) Zelljadt is an analyst in Point Carbon’s North American research group, where she focuses on regional and federal climate change policy in the United States and Canada and is responsible for educational initiatives |
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Neil Kolwey, E Source Faculty, GHG Management Institute Neil Kolwey, PE, a research manager at E Source, has expertise on greenhouse gas (GHG) management strategies, industrial energy use and technologies, energy management practices, and wholesale market dynamics in North America for natural gas and electricity. |
