Description
Course length: 3-4 days
Course description
Carbon finance is a branch of environmental finance that covers financial tools such as carbon emission trading to reduce the impact of greenhouse gases (GHG) on the environment by giving carbon emissions a price. Financial risks and opportunities impact corporate balance sheets, and market-based instruments are capable of transferring environmental risk and achieving environmental objectives. Issues regarding climate change and GHG emissions must be addressed as part of strategic management decision-making.
The general term is applied to investments in GHG emission reduction projects and the creation (origination) of financial instruments that are tradeable on the carbon market. This course is dedicated to professionals in the field of low carbon finance and investment.
Designed to develop your understanding of how the challenges of climate change are driving trillions of dollars of new investment in a huge range of sectors, including renewable energy production, housing and infrastructure, and prepare you to deliver this investment with advanced knowledge and skills.
The challenge of responding and adapting to climate change will drive trillions of dollars of new investment over the coming decades, with major changes required across the economy, in renewable energy production and consumption, industry, buildings, transport and infrastructure. Delivering this investment will require greatly enhanced capacity in all aspects of carbon finance. In addition, following the Paris Agreement, both developed and developing countries now have increased commitments for addressing climate change which is driving increased demand for skills and knowledge in carbon and climate finance.
This course is dedicated to professionals in the climate change investment field and focused on the business opportunities and financial flows driven by society’s response to climate change (carbon finance).
Who should Attend
- Individuals considering a consultancy job in renewable energy
- Individuals interested in carbon management and trading strategies and carbon reduction commitments for small, medium and large organisations.
- Managers and directors intending to reduce the organization’s carbon footprint and needing to find out more about carbon trading.
What you will learn
How to calculate, monitor and reduce an organisation’s carbon footprint and improve green credentials, in line with current legislation and carbon reduction commitments
Course Outline
- Calculate and report on the organisation’s carbon footprint (Low Carbon Energy, Lifecycle Analysis, CSR)
- Carbon reduction commitments
- Options for reducing emissions and developing a structured carbon management strategy
- Dealing with Carbon Credits
- Carbon trading strategies
- Carbon management strategies
- The current state of climate change science and key climate change policy initiatives
- Principles of finance in the energy sector including renewable energy
- Structure and dynamics of the major global, regional and national-level carbon markets
- Practices and procedures of carbon accounting
- Challenges and opportunities for low-carbon investment
- Research Methods in Carbon Finance
- Low Carbon and Green Investment
