Set science-based targets, build pathways and cost curves, write credible transition plans and track progress with approved data.
6 sections · 26 lessons · 7h 42m total length
A greenhouse gas inventory tells a company where it stands. A target tells everyone where it is going, by when, and how fast. Without a target, an inventory is a historical record; with one, it becomes a management tool that drives budgets, capital allocation and executive attention.
Every climate target has the same skeleton: a base year (the reference point), a target year (the deadline), a boundary (which scopes, gases and entities are covered) and an ambition (the reduction, expressed in absolute tonnes or as an intensity). If any of these four elements is vague, the target cannot be tracked or audited.
A well-designed target converts an abstract ambition into a yearly budget of tonnes. If a manufacturer emits 10,000 tCO2e in its base year and commits to a 42% cut by 2030, it knows it must remove 4,200 tonnes over eight years, or 525 tonnes a year on a straight line. That number can be split across sites, assigned to plant managers and turned into a list of projects with owners and dates.
A target is credible when someone can recompute it: the base-year figure, the formula and the approved data behind each year's progress are all visible.
A mid-sized food company in Egypt measured its Scope 1 and 2 emissions for the first time in 2023, driven by a European retail customer. The sustainability lead proposed a "carbon neutral by 2030" headline. The finance director asked three questions: which year is the baseline, does it include refrigerant leaks, and how much of it will be offsets? Nobody could answer. The company reworked the commitment into an absolute 42% reduction of Scope 1 and 2 by 2030 from a 2023 base year, with a separate supplier engagement target for Scope 3. The new target was less catchy but could be budgeted, tracked and explained to the customer.
Throughout, examples show how a platform such as Phi records the base year, draws the straight-line pathway, ranks initiatives and shows progress using approved figures only.
· Article Preview 20:00Measuring emissions is only the start. This advanced course shows how to turn a greenhouse gas inventory into a target that investors, lenders and regulators will trust, and a plan that management can actually deliver.
You will work through the arithmetic of science-based targets (the 4.2% and 2.5% annual rates), base-year choice and recalculation, linear pathways, business-as-usual projections and marginal abatement cost curves, using worked numbers throughout. You will then learn what makes a transition plan credible, how offsets differ from reductions, and how to track and report progress in an assurance-ready way.
Examples come from companies in Egypt, the Gulf, Jordan, Iraq, Kenya, Southern Europe and Brazil, and show how the Phi platform records targets, initiatives, pathways and progress.
Sustainability, governance and investor-relations faculty at Corprise.ai
Corprise Academy is the teaching team behind Phi and Corprise IR. Our courses are written from real reporting projects in Egypt, the Gulf, North Africa and Europe.
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Climate Targets & Decarbonisation Planning
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