Producing a defensible number for how much greenhouse gas an organisation or a city emits, and being able to say where every tonne of it came from. The technical core of ESG and sustainability-consultancy work, underneath all the reporting.
What you will be able to answer
A company with leased offices, an owned plant and a contracted vehicle fleet needs its first emissions inventory. Where does the boundary go, and what ends up in which scope?
The boundary follows the consolidation approach chosen — operational control, financial control or equity share — and that choice alone decides whether the leased sites and the contracted fleet are counted at all, which is why two companies can report different totals for the same assets. Fuel burnt in the plant and in owned vehicles is Scope 1, purchased electricity is Scope 2 reported on both a location-based and a market-based method, and the contracted fleet and purchased goods sit in Scope 3. Every line is an activity quantity times an emission factor converted to CO₂e by global warming potential, with the factor's source and vintage documented — that documentation is the first thing a verifier asks for.
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Course outline
Concept 1
Concept 1 · What a GHG inventory is, and who asks for one
Concept 2
After: what-an-inventory-is-for
Equity share against the control approaches, worked through on numbers rather than described.
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Concept 3
After: boundaries
Four source categories, then step-by-step calculations for a factory and for vehicles.
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Concept 4
After: scope-1
Location-based against market-based factors — the choice that decides whether a renewable contract changes the number.
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Concept 5
After: scope-2
Purchased goods and services worked as a calculation, not just named as a category.
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Concept 6
After: scope-1
A volume of natural gas multiplied by its factor, start to finish.
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Concept 7
After: activity-data-and-factors
Methane converted into carbon-dioxide equivalent, one worked line.
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Concept 8
After: scope-3, gwp-and-co2e
Four steps across all three scopes, added to a single footprint total.
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Concept 9
After: building-the-inventory
The triggers that force a baseline recalculation, illustrated on an acquisition.
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Concept 10
After: building-the-inventory
A single emission entry opened up — input data, factor, unit conversion, formula and source citation.
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