Course description

This practitioner course demonstrates how to design, quantify, and report an organizational greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory in accordance with ISO 14064-1:2018. We map organizational and operational boundaries (direct, energy-indirect, and other indirect), select a base year, and structure emissions/removals by relevant categories. You’ll learn to gather activity data, choose credible emission factors, and document assumptions, calculation methods, and consolidation approaches. We cover data controls, uncertainty, and materiality considerations, handling changes (recalculations), and tracking reductions against targets. Electricity and heat purchases, mobile and stationary combustion, process and fugitive sources, and biogenic CO₂ are addressed with practical worksheets. Reporting focuses on transparency, completeness, and consistency, with inventories prepared for internal decision-making and optional third-party assurance readiness. The course includes templates for boundary decisions, factor registers, data quality checks, and management review inputs, as well as Canadian/BC-specific notes on carbon pricing, facility reporting, and offsets/attributes. Designed for standalone inventories or integration with ISO 14001 and broader ESG disclosures.

What you’ll learn

• Define organizational/operational boundaries and base year

• Build activity-data pipelines and factor registers

• Quantify direct, energy-indirect, and other indirect emissions

• Address removals, biogenic CO₂, and land-use notes

• Apply data quality, uncertainty, and materiality checks

• Perform recalculations for structural/method changes

• Prepare transparent, decision-ready GHG reports

• Plan assurance readiness and improvement roadmaps

Who should attend

• Sustainability/ESG and environmental managers

• Energy, utilities, and operations leaders

• Finance/controllership supporting ESG data

• Quality/IMS managers and internal auditors

• Consultants and advisors on climate reporting

Recommended

• Basic ISO 14001 or management-systems awareness

• Familiarity with site processes, meters, and procurement

• Comfort with spreadsheets and simple calculations

• Awareness of local reporting/carbon-pricing rules