Workshop 1: Basics of Greenhouse Gas Accounting with Dave Newport, director, CU Environmental Center

Friday, Oct. 16, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., ZOOM

This workshop is the first in a two part series on greenhouse gas accounting, and focuses on establishing a baseline carbon emissions inventory. This workshop will begin with an introduction to the international standard for greenhouse gas accounting - The Greenhouse Gas Protocol - and its principles and requirements. We will then walk through assessing and calculating a baseline of carbon emissions for an organization or a household, that will include understanding the three scopes of carbon, setting organizational and operational boundaries, converting the Kyoto 6 greenhouse gases to carbon dioxide equivalents and more. Additionally, this workshop will focus on understanding carbon accounting, scopes, and personal/household emissions and how to mitigate/offset them.
 
Workshop 2: Advanced Greenhouse Gas Accounting with Dave Newport, director, CU Environmental Center, and Ellen Edwards, campus energy engineer

Friday, Oct. 30, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., ZOOM

PLEASE NOTE: Prerequisite for this course is Introduction to Carbon Emissions Inventory workshop. 

Once we have a greenhouse gas emission baseline for a facility or organization, we need to plan and forecast initiatives to reduce net emissions taking into account possible facilities or organizational growth over time.This workshop focuses on advanced skills in Greenhouse Gas Accounting - forecasting and reduction - we will scale the concepts/practices from Workshop 1 and review CU's emissions, operations, mitigation, and planning systems with Ellen Edwards.