The British Academy for Training and Development offers a training course in Carbon Finance. This accredited course provides participants with up-to-date knowledge on how to assess the benefits of carbon management strategies, reduce a company's carbon footprint, and effectively engage in carbon trading. The course prepares participants for success in the renewable energy and carbon finance industry, both nationally and internationally. This course aims to build the capacity of policy advocacy groups, ecoplanners and local landscape project developers to mobilize carbon finance. It also aims to introduce young professionals and students to the concept of carbon finance for nature-based solutions.

Who should attend? 

• Aimed at executives and entrepreneurs (especially ecopreneurs), local project developers (including GLFx chapters and rehabilitators).
• Young professionals, students and policymakers.
• Anyone has both a basic and advanced understanding of the industry.

How attendees will benefit? 

After completion of the course, delegates will understand: 

• Increase local stakeholder understanding of key carbon finance concepts.
• Demonstrate opportunities to generate carbon revenues in different types of land-use projects and business models.
• Provide steps for monetizing carbon benefits

• Corporate emissions and decarbonization strategies.
• Introduction to Greenhouse Gases (GHG) and Climate Change.
• ESG Corporate Philosophy and Reporting.
• Calculation of corporate CO2 emissions.
• Types of emission reduction commitments.
• Developing a corporate decarbonization strategy.
• European carbon market.
• Compliance carbon market.
• Voluntary carbon market.