Hi. Welcome to the Chartered Institute’s
Certified Net zero Carbon Emissions Leader Class.
My name is Dr.
Heather Eliezer and I'm excited to be able to share with you
the latest science and best practices in carbon management.
My aim is to help you and your company or organization
to become climate leaders in what history will likely judge
to be one of the most critical challenges humanity has faced.
I will walk you through a series of modules beginning
with climate change as the background and impetus for this work.
What is happening?
What do models show about its future implications
and what we need to do about it?
And how success or failure is measured in the form
of a global budget of gigatons of emitted carbon dioxide.
Then we'll go on to greenhouse gas reporting
where you'll learn about concepts and principles you'll need to understand
to prepare your company to measure, report, set targets
and reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of your company or organization.
The technologies that can allow us to reach
these goals are already here and from various sources
you will be pointed to the sectors and methods available that
with additional investment can allow us to dramatically lower emissions
while creating additional benefits to health
risk and equity.
We will learn about the various emerging technologies
in carbon capture and storage.
Along the way, we will see a number of case studies of companies
and organizations and what makes them likely to engage and report
their approaches to implementation and real world hazards in that process.
We will also look at factors that play into the value
and effectiveness of some offsetting methods.
in the final modules, we will talk about resilience solutions and networks
that can facilitate implementation of climate change reduction measures.
We will look at standard metrics or key performance indices
that you can measure and improve upon to meet your climate goals.
To meet this challenge,
every level of your organization needs to take part in this work,
And doing so yields benefits, including risk
management and employee motivation.
There are businesses and organizations as well as nations
and subnational governments that are showing us that it can be done
and are part of collaboration networks that your company can take part in.
You are taking this class at a time in which progress is urgently needed.
And I look forward to helping your company to understand and meet the challenge.
One step at a time.
And to become a climate leader in our energy transition.
Thank you and I look forward to seeing you in module one.