Introduction
Climate change has taken center-stage as the pre-eminent global environmental challenge of the 21st century. Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change has, as a result, become a principal objective of business. Delivering these cuts efficiently has led to over 40 governments at regional, national and international level to develop carbon trading regimes.
The essential implication of carbon trading is that an organization’s climate change strategies are increasingly important in limiting exposure to financial and legal risks. The broader implication of carbon-trading is that increasingly it pays companies to invest in developing a climate change and emissions trading strategy that ensures these risks are limited, and that any potential opportunities that arise from emissions trading are fully exploited.
Course Objectives of Climate Change & Emissions Trading Services
To provide delegates with the understanding, knowledge, and the action-steps that organizations need to take to put their climate change and emission trading strategies together. These action-steps are presented, during the course, by the following topics
- Understanding the basics: the first step is to understand what climate change and emission trading services are and what they mean for your organization
- Emissions trading program: the development of a climate change and emission trading program and setting of exposure acceptance parameters
- Develop a management strategy: selecting internal emission reductions; purchasing credits and/or generating credits in order to ensure compliance of the ‘Kyoto Protocol’
- Climate Change & Emissions Trading Workshop: workshop case study will learn how to implement each of the action-steps
Course Methodology of Climate Change & Emissions Trading Services
The course is presented through an interactive presentation, supported by videos, delegate exercises and, a workshop case study in which delegates will learn how to implement each of the action-steps to develop a climate change and emissions trading program for their organization.
Organizational Impact of Climate Change & Emissions Trading Services
- Organisation will be able to review their climate change and emission trading strategies
- Enable delegates to appraise the best cost-benefits options for emission trading services
- Enable delegates to develop climate change and emissions trading programs
Personal Impact of Climate Change & Emissions Trading Services
- Promotes a positive attitude and understanding of environmental management and protection
- Understand what climate change and emission trading services means for your organization
- Know how to develop and implement climate change and emissions trading program
Course Outlines of Climate Change & Emissions Trading Services
DAY 1
Understanding the Basics
- What does climate change mean?
- What is global warming?
- What are greenhouse gases?
- What is your company’s exposure to climate change impacts?
- What are emissions trading and carbon credits?
- Overview of climate change policy and the ‘Kyoto Protocol’ requirements
- Video: Climate change
- Delegate exercise: outline the emission trading principles
DAY 2
Emissions Trading - System Design
- Forms of emissions trading
- What are the benefits of emission trading services?
- Open and closed emission trading systems
- Establishing baselines and setting emission exposure acceptance criteria
- Banking and borrowing emission trading and allocated limits
- Assessing climate change risks and their financial implications
- Video: Emission trading
- Delegate exercise: produce a framework for emission trading strategy
DAY 3
Develop Management Strategy
- The three main emission trading service options
- Internal emission reductions
- Purchasing credits for compliance
- Generating credits by investing in external projects
- What is the most cost-effective emission trading route?
- Developing a combined option portfolio
- Creating opportunities to capitalize on reduced emissions
- Delegate exercise: selecting emission trading options
DAY 4
Climate Change & Emissions Trading - Delegate’s Workshop
- Review of the ‘EU Emissions Trading Scheme’
- Identifying greenhouse gas emission inventories of your operations
- Assessing and evaluating your climate change emission risks and impacts
- Developing an emissions trading policy and strategy
- Selecting your emission trading service portfolio
- Producing your emissions trading services program
- Establishing your climate changing and emission monitoring and reporting systems
- Video: Climate change and emission trading
DAY 5
Monitoring & Recording Emission Reductions
- Identifying your emission reduction monitoring requirements
- Monitoring and verifying emission reductions system
- Registering your emission reductions to facilitate carbon trading
- Quality stamping validity of the emissions reductions
- Video: Carbon Trading
- Key Point Summary of Course Topics
- Award of Certificates
- Close of Course
About Cairo
Cairo is a mesmerizing assortment of iconic monuments, bustling markets, and ancient sites encircled by a vast and sprawling metropolis. At its core lies a maze-like medieval quarter. A world away from the modern side of the city, it boasts a seductive blend of intricate mosques, jostling crowds, madrasas, and traditional hammams. No visit could be complete without visiting the awe-inspiring Giza Pyramids that preside over the city's horizon. Whether you come to delve into the city's ancient past, dive into colorful souqs, sip mint tea and contemplate thousands of years of history or explore the city's cosmopolitan side, you'll be left with memories to last a lifetime.
Things to do and places to visit in Cairo
The multi-layered capital of Egypt offers its visitors lively markets, authentic restaurants, and a multitude of ancient sights and archeological findings. Gaze in wonder at the Pyramids, take an awe-inspiring look at Tutankhamen's burial mask, shop for handmade souvenirs in the bazaars or hop on a sunset cruise down the Nile and embrace the sensory overload that is Cairo.
Take a vacation in Cairo and you can:
- Visit the Great Sphinx of Giza, one of Ancient Egypt's great mysteries.
- Explore the ramparts of the Salah El-Din Citadel.
- Join locals drinking coffee at Fishawi Café, one of Cairo's first cafes and most important meeting spots.
- Marvel at the seemingly endless historical artifacts on display at the Egyptian Museum.
- Learn about the Ummayad, Ottoman, and Ayyubbid dynasties and more at the Museum of Islamic Art.
- Haggle for souvenirs and gifts at the Khan el-Khalili souk.
- See one of the world's oldest universities at the Al-Azhar Mosque, one of the city's original mosques.
- Take a tour of the showstopping Giza pyramids.
- Savor local cuisine such as mezze in the old city.
- Wander through the labyrinth-like streets of Coptic Cairo, the city's ancient quarter, and spot Roman relics.