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Carbon Footprints and Climate Risk: Tools for Business and Government
March 26, 2010
Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
UO in Portland, White Stag Block 152
Presenter:
Kelly Hoell
Aaron Toneys
Course Purpose and Intended Participants
This workshop is specifically designed for public- and private-sector staff who must conduct a GHG inventory for their organizations or prepare their organizations for mandatory reporting requirements at the state or federal level. The workshop will provide a detailed description of the steps and challenges involved with conducting a greenhouse gas inventory and how to use the inventory results to understand and define climate risk for your organization. Participants will engage in hands-on activities throughout the day and will leave with a suite of tools, resources, and guidance for calculating, understanding, and communicating their carbon footprint.
Course Description
This workshop will provide concrete tools for conducting a GHG inventory (or carbon footprint) of a corporation, municipal or county government, or other entity. The structure of the day will follow the entire process, including:
- Selecting relevant protocols and data tools to use throughout your GHG inventory process
- Setting boundaries for your inventory
- Data gathering, inside your organization and in coordination with external entities
- Calculating emissions from data
- Estimating emissions sources with incomplete data
- Interpretation of results, and framing of major issues
- Final reporting writing and other dissemination of results
- Using GHG inventory results to better understand an organization's cost-of-carbon risk
- Linking GHG inventory results to climate action opportunities (this will be covered very briefly-for more information about climate action opportunities, please see Skov's class on Climate and Energy Action Planning)
Participants will leave with a complete structure and plan for carrying out a GHG inventory for their respective organizations. Activities throughout the day will provide directions for first steps. The workshop will draw on details and insights from emerging GHG reporting frameworks in Washington, Oregon and California. If you are unsure about whether your entity will be required to report GHG emissions to state government, see one of these sites. Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting: WA, OR, CA
Technical pre-requisites: There are no knowledge requirements for this workshop, but participants will be required to tackle quantitative reasoning challenges. A general understanding of climate change, greenhouse gases, and your organization's activities will be important to getting the most out of the workshop. For a quick primer by the US Department of Energy, see Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, and Energy.
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