The new Sustainable Economy Law establishes policies for the voluntary reduction and compensation of CO2 emissions, as well as to promote activities in sectors associated with the fight against climate change, also improving the tax regime for the deduction of expenses made in investments aimed at protecting the environment.
Given the relevance of the fight against climate change in the current socio-political and environmental situation, the Higher Institute of the Environment with the collaboration of IIMA has created the training program: Climate Change and Carbon Footprint Calculation.
The objective of the program is to establish the training bases to understand the implications of the emission rights market, clean development mechanisms, the emissions inventory and all those technical aspects that condition the management of Climate Change and, especially the calculation of the carbon footprint. In this course, not only the effects and consequences of Climate Change at the business level are analyzed, but the current strategies promoted by the scientific community and the political sphere are studied. In the same way, special emphasis is placed on the importance of the Carbon Footprint Calculation and on the need to measure the ecological footprint of the activity carried out by each company.
"Climate Change and Carbon Footprint Calculation" is aimed at students and qualified workers: environmental directors and technicians, auditors, responsible for environmental management systems, sustainability managers, environmental consultants and energy efficiency consultants.
The course will be taught online through the Virtual Campus of the ISM with a duration equivalent to 100 hours. The student can consult through our platform the online training material, download information, perform practical exercises and perform tests to verify knowledge acquired autonomously, with the support of the teacher at all times.
Start date: May 3, 2011.
For more information, consult the microsite of the Climate Change and Carbon Footprint Calculation course.
Authors: Val
