Build a GHG inventory an auditor can re-perform: boundaries, factors, both Scope 2 methods, all 15 Scope 3 categories and base years.
6 sections · 25 lessons · 3h 47m total length
A greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory is a company's annual account of the gases it releases, directly and through its value chain, expressed in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e). Ten years ago it was mostly a voluntary exercise for a sustainability report. Today it is a number that regulators, lenders, buyers and auditors ask for, and they expect it to be re-performable: anyone should be able to take your inputs and arrive at the same result.
Almost every framework you will meet (GRI 305, ESRS E1, IFRS S2, CDP, exchange guides in the Gulf) builds on the GHG Protocol, developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Three documents matter most for a company:
The Protocol is being revised; when you build a methodology, note which edition and guidance you followed so the choice can be explained later.
The Corporate Standard asks that an inventory be:
You will learn to set boundaries, calculate Scope 1, 2 and 3 with activity data and emission factors, choose and document factors, handle the two Scope 2 methods, screen the 15 Scope 3 categories, manage a base year and avoid the errors auditors find most often. Examples use companies from Egypt, the Gulf, Kenya, Southern Europe and Brazil, and show how an ESG platform such as Phi keeps every number traceable.
The hard part of carbon accounting is rarely the formula. It is data discipline: one agreed number per fact, a clear owner, a second pair of eyes before it counts, and a record of every change.· Article Preview 10:00
Investors, banks, regulators and buyers now ask companies for their greenhouse gas emissions, and they expect numbers that can be traced and re-performed. This course teaches the GHG Protocol method step by step: setting organisational and operational boundaries, converting gases to CO2e with AR5 or AR6 warming potentials, and calculating every figure as activity data multiplied by a documented emission factor.
You will work through numerical examples drawn from real situations in Egypt, the Gulf, Kenya, Southern Europe and Brazil: diesel fleets, district cooling, refrigerant leaks, cement process emissions, Guarantees of Origin, supplier data and financed emissions under PCAF. Each module ends with a short knowledge check.
The course also covers what makes an inventory credible: factor hierarchies, base-year recalculation, maker-checker controls, common errors and assurance readiness, with notes on how Corprise's Phi platform keeps every figure traceable from bill to report.
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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Carbon Accounting: Scopes 1, 2 & 3
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