ISEP Carbon Footprinting & Reporting

  • Level: Introduction
  • Study time: 6 hours
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Course information
Introductory course on Carbon Footprinting & Reporting
  • Learner time: 6 hours
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  • Accredited: CPD-UK & ISEP
  • ISEP
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Course contents

What is it?

As organisations increasingly focus on sustainability and meeting environmental reporting requirements, understanding carbon emissions has become an essential business capability. This course introduces the principles of carbon accounting and equips learners with the confidence to support carbon management and reporting within their organisation.

If you’re responsible for tracking, managing, or reducing your organisation’s carbon impact,  you need the essential tools to do it right.

The ISEP Carbon Footprinting and Reporting course offers clear, practical guidance on how to calculate and report carbon emissions across your business.

Whether you’re building your first footprint or looking to refine existing processes, you’ll gain the skills to confidently measure Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, use data to drive decarbonisation, and align with global frameworks like the GHG Protocol.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain the essential mechanisms of climate change, key greenhouse gases, and core carbon quantification terminology
  • Describe the global frameworks, UK government policies, and stakeholder pressures that drive organisational carbon footprinting
  • Provide an overview of carbon quantification frameworks, UK regulatory requirements, and relevant sector standards
  • Develop an organisational carbon footprinting strategy, establish boundaries, and plan an emissions inventory across all relevant scopes
  • Calculate emissions using appropriate methods, activity data, and emission factors, while maintaining data quality
  • Communicate carbon data effectively using relevant reporting frameworks, intensity metrics, and financial arguments
  • Explain how carbon footprints support emissions reduction strategies and progress towards Net Zero

Who should complete this course?

This course is suitable for anyone involved in sustainability, environmental management or organisational reporting, including:

  • Sustainability professionals
  • Environmental managers and officers
  • ESG and CSR teams
  • Finance and procurement professionals
  • Operations and facilities managers
  • Compliance professionals
  • Supply chain managers
  • Consultants
  • Business leaders and decision-makers
Meet the online tutor (email support)

Michelle Marks

Michelle is a Rio ISEP trainer based in Leeds. 

Michelle’s special interest is food waste and sustainable food, as what we eat contributes over a fifth of humanity’s carbon emissions.

She is passionate about sharing the message that we all have a role to play in being more sustainable and cumulatively, individuals’ actions add up to significant carbon savings.

Michelle has a BA in Food and Accommodation Management, qualified as a Chartered Marketer and is a Practitioner Member of ISEP.