Training and workshops
Sustainability is a team endeavour
What’s the one thing that consistently drives the success of sustainability initiatives? A committed team.
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We know the struggles sustainability leads face when other teams don’t understand the vision, don’t see sustainability as their responsibility, and don’t know how to contribute. Your sustainability team spends time explaining, convincing, and feeling overwhelmed and unsupported.
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Bringing your whole team together for a workshop or training session is one of the most effective ways to ensure your sustainability work delivers results. It equips every team member with the knowledge and tools to contribute. We help you align your whole organisation towards common sustainability goals. You’ll have a cohesive plan shaped by everyone’s input, where each person knows their role and takes responsibility for the positive impact they can make.
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You’ll be surprised by the wide range of ideas your team can contribute as they explore some core sustainability issues together. You get faster, wider, and more sustained action across your business. The result is a happier workforce, lower resource consumption, reduced risks across your supply chain, and a competitive edge.
Specific to your sector
We’ll talk to you before planning your sessions to understand how much sector-specific and company-specific information you want to focus on. We can do a ‘first glance’ carbon and sustainability audit to highlight some of the hotspot areas your team should consider.
We’ve also seen the value of learning from and building on examples from outside your own sector. So we’ll bring case studies that start discussions and spark ideas.
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Training delivered in the way you like to learn
We’ll work with you to shape your training so it’s the most engaging format for your team, whether that’s in person, online or hybrid.
These are some of the sessions we can offer:
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Carbon Literacy Training
Become a certified Carbon Literate Organisation with Carbon Literacy Training for your whole team. These courses are designed to be flexible with content adapted to your sector and team. When everyone’s certified as ‘carbon literate,’ you’ll also be able to display this globally recognised qualification as a clear demonstration of your corporate social responsibility.
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Who’s it for?
Carbon Literacy Training works best when whole teams and organisations are trained. Everyone commits to at least one individual and one group or organisational action as part of their accreditation.
What’s the format?
This can be delivered in-house or online. To be fully certified as Carbon Literate takes 1 full day or 2 half days of training, or by taking a number of e-learning sessions.
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‘How Bad are Bananas?’ Game
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Based on Mike Berners-Lee's bestselling book ‘How Bad are Bananas’, this simple game is a fun first step to start exploring the complex and nuanced issues of climate emissions.
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Designed by educators and backed by Small World Consulting science, this gamified learning session is fully interactive, creates space for discussion and debate, and empowers your team to take meaningful action.
Who’s it for?
The Bananas Game is great for whole teams and organisations, giving everyone some introductory knowledge about different sources of climate emissions.
What’s the format?
This can be delivered in-house or online, for 30 – 60 minutes. For larger teams we'll split you into groups for some parts so that everyone can take part.
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Small World, Big Problems, Your Solutions
An in-house or webinar training session that incorporates carbon comparisons and core climate terminology, as well as showing the big picture of current climate impacts. We look at the key changes needed and the progress we’ve made globally, nationally and in your industry so far. With lots of interactive learning elements and time to discuss and reflect with each other, your team are encouraged to share their challenges and ideas. We finish by asking everyone to use their new knowledge to identify opportunities for your organisation in a truly sustainable future, and the steps they can start taking now to move in that direction.
Who’s it for?
This is aimed at giving everyone across your organisation the same base knowledge in climate and sustainability, and is ideal at the start of a carbon measuring or sustainability action project.
What’s the format?
This can be delivered in-house or online, we recommend two sessions of around 2 hours each.
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Climate action plan workshop
An in-house or webinar workshop session to deliver a climate action plan for your organisation, with measurable targets and timelines.
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We bring our carbon and sustainability expertise to explain your emission hotspots and other areas of impact. We use innovative graphics to communicate your climate impact so you can clearly see how your emissions fit under your spheres of influence, and the costs, paybacks, and different risks of taking action or not. We facilitate your team to pull all these elements together into one cohesive action plan, with measurable targets, delivery timelines, and responsible owners.
Who’s it for?
This training works best with representatives from all teams across the organisation, who have the authority to make decisions and enact change.
What’s the format?
This workshop is best delivered in-house and takes between 2 to 4 hours.
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When’s the best time?
Ideally, this workshop will be delivered after a carbon accounting report has been delivered, and with a team who’ve already had some climate training from one of the courses above​.
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Introduction to Carbon Accounting
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We take you through the basics of carbon accounting, why it's important, and how it works. Your team will know how their role fits into the process, what your carbon accounting results mean, and crucially, how to turn the numbers into meaningful action to lower your emissions.
We cover Scopes 1, 2 and 3 and different ways to gather the most reliable data to calculate them. We explain the basics of how spend-based data and life cycle analysis are used to calculate emissions. Then we explore how to build an action plan that is based not just on your emission hotspots but also on financial risks and opportunities, and your spheres of influence.
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Who’s it for?
Anyone who has a key role in making your carbon accounting effective, from data collection to analysing what your carbon accounting report means for your business, to creating an action plan and tracking progress. Procurement and sustainability teams will gain a lot from this course.
What’s the format?
This can be delivered in-house or online, and takes around 2 hours.
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Carbon Accounting Masterclass
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Starting with a recap on Scopes 1, 2 and 3, we look at the role of renewable energy and REGOs in Scope 2 emissions. Then we dive into Scope 3 supply chain carbon accounting, looking at the benefits and constraints of spend-based data with input-output models and of Product Life Cycle Analysis (P-LCAs).
After exploring system boundaries and truncation errors, we look at hybridisation techniques to create system-complete and comparable emissions factors. This includes using supplier-specific data within input-output models but focuses on creating hybridised P-LCAs.
These are the methodologies used in Carbon Commons, our partnership project to create a step-change across the whole carbon accounting industry.
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Who’s it for?
Carbon accountants, both in-house and consultancy, who are looking to understand the techniques to use for the most reliable emissions factors that will reflect reduction actions.
What’s the format?
This can be delivered in-house or online, and takes around 4 hours.
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