Applied Carbon Markets, GHG Accounting & Climate Resilience
About This Course
This module is part of the full-time SCTP Sustainability and ESG Management in the Built Environment and Manufacturing programme. It introduces professionals to carbon markets, emissions accounting, and climate resilience in organisational sustainability.
You will explore carbon credits, offsets, registries, standards, voluntary and compliance markets, and greenhouse gas accounting across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. The course also covers carbon credit quality, including additionality, permanence, verifiability, leakage, double-counting, and greenwashing risks.
Through case examples and hands-on exercises, you will apply carbon accounting concepts, assess carbon-related claims, and support sustainability reporting, carbon project evaluation, and climate-related decision-making.
What You'll Learn
•Explain key carbon market concepts, including carbon pricing, credits, offsets, registries, and market types.
•Describe greenhouse gas accounting principles, including Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions.
•Assess carbon credit quality and identify risks such as greenwashing, leakage, double-counting, and weak verification.
•Calculate basic emissions and carbon savings to support sustainability reporting and climate-related decision-making.
Entry Requirements
Polytechnic Diploma or equivalent certification.