Carbon Footprinting Workshops by Low Carbon Devon

Past GMIUniversity of Plymouth

27 Jul

Written By Laura Wasley

Green Maker Initiative

System Shift Take Action: SME Carbon Footprinting | Running Mid-October & November | FREE

How can you take meaningful action on climate change as a local enterprise based here in Devon?

Join Low Carbon Devon for a series of interactive and informative carbon footprinting workshops enabling you to put theory into action and help make net-zero a reality.

Ambition into action

Calculating your carbon emissions is an essential part of tackling the climate emergency, enabling you to understand where you are and how you can improve.

This workshop series will transform your ambition into action. Each session will walk you through the process of calculating your carbon emissions, helping you to understand carbon footprinting, scope 1, 2 and 3 and what makes measuring and reducing these so important.

You will leave these workshops with an actual measurement of your organisation’s carbon emissions, which you can use to identify areas of improvement and proactively take positive action.

Organisations are required to attend all four sessions in this workshop series to ensure that you receive the full information to guide you through the carbon footprinting process and make sure that it is as beneficial to your business as possible.

Workshop 1: Thursday 20 October 14:00-16:00 - Scene setting

This workshop will explain why measuring carbon emissions is important, set out what net zero means and provide an introduction to carbon footprinting, including setting out what information is needed for the next workshop.

Workshop 2: Thursday 3 November 14:00-16:00 – Calculating your emissions

During this workshop LCD will walk you through the process of measuring your carbon emissions, demonstrate the process and introduce some useful guidance and tools. For this session, you will need access to information such as utility bills and vehicle mileage.

Workshop 3: Thursday 10 November 14:00-16:00 - Scope 3 and offsetting

During this workshop, you will be introduced to scope 3 emissions and the challenges involved in measuring and reducing these. We will also discuss carbon offsetting and the next steps toward reducing your emissions having calculated them.

Workshop 4: Thursday 17 November 14:00-16:00 – Product Life Cycle Assessment Introduction

This session will provide an introduction and overview of product carbon footprints and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of products - exploring what this means, with some practical examples and how you can start understanding how to take action.

Event details

Each workshop will take place at the Sustainability Hub, University of Plymouth city centre campus. This is an in person event but there is an online option available.

There are limited spaces so please only register if you will be able to attend all 4 sessions. Spaces will be allocated to enterprises based on a first come first served basis.

Please register your interest on the link below and we will get back to you in due course.

Eligibility

The free workshops are for any enterprise based in Devon which is an SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise), from any sector.

Each enterprise must be able to attend all four sessions to make the best use of the place on the workshop programme.

For more information please contact:
Christopher Woodfield – Knowledge Exchange Officer: christopher.woodfield@plymouth.ac.uk