Managing Your Carbon Footprint

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Course Objectives:
Do you know the size of your organization's carbon footprint? How about the amount of kilowatts your computers use on a daily basis? If you don't know these stats right now, there's a good chance you'll have to in the near future. It's good business today, and it's going to form a large part of tomorrow's regulatory environment.

The European community is pursuing regulation on the ecologically friendly design of energy-using products (EuPs) through Directive 2005/32/EC and it will also require manufacturers to go back to the energy used when extracting the raw materials needed to make its product, including all subassemblies and components.

This course teaches workers how to tackle Climate Change from a business perspective through the use of case studies and covering all current and relevant legislation.

Contents:
This course includes:

  • What is Climate Change?
  • Why Businesses need to manage Climate Change
  • What legislation is there regarding Climate Change?
  • What is meant by Carbon Neutral, Offsetting and Footprints?
  • Tackling Climate Change from a business perspective
  • Case studies of companies that have succeeded in becoming carbon neutral
  • Overview of current legislation


Who should attend:
Senior Managers who need a general understanding of how Carbon Footprints and Climate Change will effect their business and any individual who is, or wants to be involved in making their organisation more environmentally friendly or wishes to ensure compliance with existing legislation.

Course benefits:
This programme also provides a valuable insight into the significant cost-savings and associated commercial benefits that can be achieved through implementing an Environmental Management System.

Additional information:
Cosensa are able to provide a range of Environmental Management programmes, ranging from implementation of a current Management framework such as EMAS or ISO 14001, together with a range of Internal Environmental Auditor programmes.

Certificates:
All delegates who attend this course will receive a Certificate of attendance.

Trainers background:
The Trainer for this programme has many years international experience consulting and training organisations in implementing and managing Environmental Management Systems.

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