Learn to calculate your business footprint and understand how to reduce emissions
These short courses get event profs up to speed on sustainability. Customers want it, investors expect it and reporting will be compulsory in the near future. Taking steps now puts you ahead of the game, keeps you relevant to stakeholders and saves you money in the long-term.
Wherever you are on the journey, our workshops provide a framework to measure and reduce your emissions now and set you up for longer-term positive impact. They foster sharing and collaboration and leave you with the tools to report on your ongoing emissions against the UK standard GHG Protocol.
If you would like to train your team or wider company on how to understand, measure and reduce event emissions and shape your sustainability strategies we offer an in-house training option for the full day, 9am - 5pm.
These in-person sessions allow more hands on time to focus on your own specific industry, needs and objectives and help advance your sustainable strategy. Get all teams with a passion or responsibility to drive forward your net-zero agenda together in one room and leave with the understanding and next steps required to put it into action. Uses the UK GHG Protocol Conversion Factors as the basis of calculations.
Provide a starting framework to approach your sustainability strategy and reduction measures
Assess where you are now to prioritise impact areas to focus on
Leave you with the tools to continue implementing reduction strategies
The sessions are interactive so you get the most from it and each other. You will have your workshop network to continue progress with after completion.
Part 1 Events OR Intro Workshop
Background on sustainability theory, Sustainable Development Goals, climate change
Understanding our impact as an industry, business and individual
Identifying footprint impact streams and how to measure your own impact
Gathering meaningful data
Understanding the GHG Protocal metrics and how to apply these to your calculations
Carbon footprint calculation walkthroughs
Calculate your own key impact streams
Part 2 Events OR Deeper Dive Workshop
Carbon footprint measurement in more detail
Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting, Green House Gas Protocol and Carbon Scopes 1, 2 and 3
Worked examples and calculations
Understanding results for internal and external communication
Part 3 Events OR Deeper Dive Workshop
Using results to develop short, medium and long term strategies for carbon reductions
Setting goals and objectives for business impact reduction
Communication strategies internally, externally and up and down the supply chain
Carbon offsetting
Climate change resilience
Circular business thinking
What previous participants thought
“The workshop series has already given me great insight into how emissions are calculated. Understanding how the venue’s impact ties in with organisers’ and suppliers’ emissions has been extremely valuable. I’m looking forward to learning more in the final session, in preparation for the work we will be undertaking to fulfil Olympia London’s net zero pledge.”
Siân Richards
Head of Sustainability,
Olympia London
"Thank you so much for the workshop. I have learnt how sustainability reports can be transformed into actions for cleaner events and potentially zero carbon events; the importance of measuring carbon impact from events to compare with next year’s to improve and that communication is key."
Scherazade Garcia Laso
Conference & Logistics,
CloserStill Media
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