How to Measure, Reduce, and Offset your Company’s Carbon Footprint (FutureLearn)

On this six-week course, you’ll be guided through the terminology, measurement techniques, and reduction strategies for your company’s carbon footprint.

You’ll start by examining different carbon footprint modelling tools before a step-by-step guide will help you model your own Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 carbon footprint.
Learn how to reduce and offset your carbon footprint

You’ll explore common strategies for reducing your carbon footprint before examining how and where your company can offset its carbon footprint.

This course will help you navigate the confusing carbon offset landscape to help you find the scheme that works best for you and your business.

With strategies in place, you’ll learn how to track your reductions and create dashboards to report on your progress, improving your brand reputation and showing your customers you’re committed to your green initiatives.
Discover other pledges and environmental sustainability initiatives with the experts at MSQ

Guided by the Chief Sustainability Officer at MSQ, you’ll finish the course with the knowledge and confidence to implement carbon reduction and offsetting strategies and help influence others to do the same.

Syllabus

Week 1: Understanding the key terminology around climate change

Week 2: Modelling your scope 1 and scope 2 emissions

Week 3: Modelling your scope 3 emissions

Week 4: Offsetting and reducing your emissions

Week 5: Monitoring and reporting on your offsetting and reductions

Week 6: Going beyond and influencing – other initiatives

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Describe key terminology used when discussing carbon footprints.

- Compare different options for official carbon offsetting.

- Explore how to model your Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 carbon footprint.

- Engage with how to set a carbon reduction strategy.

- Assess how to track and report on progress.

- Explore further initiatives to help influence others.

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for anyone interested in how companies can help to tackle climate change.

It will be particularly useful to SMEs who are looking to reduce their carbon footprint and to introduce a carbon offsetting scheme to their company.