About this Course

Are you keen on ‘greening up’ your business but would like to get moving, change in small or big ways, and also get your team on board?

Your company has a responsibility to reduce its carbon emissions!

Organisations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that they are taking their environmental responsibilities seriously. Individuals are also become more conscious and sensitive that they make on the environment.

This one day course helps your business plan for high price energy markets and environmental demands. It also helps you to do your bit to help the environment, which will demonstrate your sensitivity to environmental responsibility. Learn how individuals, corporate business, government bodies and charitable organisations are responding to environmental challenges, and the ‘carbon footprint’ agenda.

Benefits to your business:

• A thorough understanding of how to calculate your carbon footprint
• The ability to report on your carbon footprint with confidence in its integrity and robustness
• Identification of opportunities within your business for carbon reduction activities and carbon management strategies
• Provides the business case, the tools and techniques to mobilise senior management and motivate colleagues and subordinates

The course is aimed at managers or executives who would like to develop their knowledge and skills to implement environmental improvements in their organisations. This could be at an individual, team, departmental or company-wide level. It is specifically relevant to:

• Those requiring an overview of carbon foot-printing
• Those looking to calculate and report their own carbon footprint
• Those looking to develop a carbon management strategy
• Those looking to reap the financial rewards of reducing their footprint

The course is suitable for delegates from all types of organisations – from large corporate, to small businesses, the public sector, and charitable 

You will Learn:

The programme will provide an introduction for anyone who wants to understand the basics of Carbon Foot printing. From how it affects their lives, the lives of others, their business department and their company. We will also explore the issues, challenges and opportunities of dealing with this phenomenon.  Through Singapore, Asian and Global case study we will explore the subject in a simple, interesting and easy to understand workshop format

Course Overview

• Why carbon foot printing is becoming so important for people, businesses and nations
• Tackling climate change from a personal, and departmental business perspective
• The benefits of getting involved with the ‘green agenda’
• The key principle of carbon foot printing
• Understanding the ‘jargon’ of carbon foot printing, making it simple to understand
• Calculating your carbon footprint
• Understanding plans to manage your personal carbon footprint
• Basic understanding of what companies can do to make changes
• Simple case studies of how some companies manage and reduce their footprint
• What is happening at a government level in Singapore
• How everyone can make a difference
• Developing plans - What can you and your team do to change?

Quick Tip

The critical first step of waste prevention has been overshadowed by a focus on recycling. Companies should focus within their supply-chain to develop a greater awareness of the importance of the "Reduce" part of the Reduce-Reuse-Recycle mantra.

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