Carbon Literacy training for Business Schools
Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Business School (NBS) is leading the UN PRME Champions’ project ‘Carbon Literacy Training for Business Schools’. This training was developed by NBS in collaboration with the UN PRME Champions, the international student organization ‘oikos Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé’ and the Carbon Literacy Project. It also includes an introduction to En-ROADS, developed by Climate Interactive in collaboration with MIT Sloan and Ventana Systems.
What is carbon literacy?
As every person learns to read and write, everyone needs to be able to read in the ‘carbon book of life’. This includes the ability to calculate the carbon emissions of every human activity from using an air-conditioning unit or drinking a cappuccino to buying clothes or using a hedge trimmer. Everyone needs to be carbon literate enough to choose climate solutions with the highest impact on improving the future for all. The Carbon Literacy Training provides this basic carbon literacy and enables participants to choose the best solutions regarding their own work, study and other important aspects of their life.
What's included in the training?
The Carbon Literacy Training (CLT) Programme equips everyone with the information to train others about carbon literacy. This professional development opportunity provides the skills needed to make high impact changes in private and work settings (for example research, teaching or consultancy work) to reduce carbon emissions. Additionally, the CLT helps participants identify multiple other benefits such as health issues and inequality. A certificate is awarded upon full participation and completion of the training issued by the The Carbon Literacy Project.
Topics covered
- Positive Futures Scenarios and Climate Justice
- Climate Science and the matching high impact climate solutions
- Carbon calculation and individual action
- Climate Change Mitigation: a systems approach
- Your own Action Plan
Training within NBS and NTU
We offer regular training for staff and students at NBS and NTU. Find out more about training.
NTU also offers the training to SMEs as part of SAIL and to screen students within Confetti. Confetti is a member of the who have developed this training for the screen industry.
Collaboration and international training
Since 2019, NBS has run several Carbon Literacy Trainings for Business Schools worldwide as and in collaboration with other organisations, for example the University of Yale, where the training is integrated into the .
As part of the delivery of the Carbon Literacy Training, NBS collaborates with by including an introduction to developed by Climate Interactive in collaboration with MIT Sloan and Ventana Systems. To enrol for the next event please email Professor Petra Molthan-Hill.
NBS is also working with other PRME Champions to distribute the training and to collaborate in the design of more specific discipline focused teaching material such as Carbon Accounting with
Meet the team
- Professor Petra Molthan-Hill – petra.molthan-hill@ntu.ac.uk
- Dr Alex Mifsud – alexandra.mifsud02@ntu.ac.uk
- Dr Ani Raiden – ani.raiden@ntu.ac.uk
- Dr Muhammad Mazhar – mahammadusman.mazhar@ntu.ac.uk
- Dr Rachel Welton – rachel.welton@ntu.ac.uk