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Greenhouse gas emissions reporting is the major sustainability impact that must be disclosed by your organization. Our global experience across a diverse range of climate change projects means we have the expertise to train you to achieve better sustainability credentials.

Leveraging the extensive network around the globe, our sustainability experts are now available to deliver sustainability training courses wherever you are based, through virtual instructor led training (VILT). 

Attending a VILT course enables you to broaden and enrich your sustainability knowledge and skills that are internationally applicable, at minimal cost and time. The courses are delivered live, and online by an SGS sustainability expert, ensuring that wherever you are in the world, you have access to the best expertise in your chosen training topics.

Upon completion of this course, you can:

• Understand the ISO standards, principles and competencies in relation to Verification and Validation.
• Understand the meaning of strategic analysis and risk assessment.
• Understand verification and validation sampling plans.
• Conduct a contract review and an agreement to conduct verification and validation activities.
• Understand compliance, data, assessing materiality, findings and audit trails in connection with verification and validation activities.
• Compile a verification and validation statement.

Language: English
Duration: 8 hours

Discover our Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) courses

Upon completion of this course, you can:

• Understand the standards, principles and competencies associated with GHG Verification and Validation.
• Prepare for the verification and validation contract review and agreement.
• Understand the verification and validation approach and activities.
• Finalize a verification and validation statement.

Language: English
Duration: 8 hours

Why VILT with SGS?

Within our network of 2,650 locations and 97,000 colleagues across the world, we ensure the best trainers deliver the best courses to you, wherever you may be. 

As a delegate on a VILT course, you can:

• Learn from the best experts in the world from the comfort of your home or work without the need or cost of traveling
• Acquire knowledge and skills that may not be easily accessible in your location
• Broaden your business networks

Greenhouse Gas Balance Sheets 
VILT Course

Upon completion of this course, you can:

• Define the GHG effect, climate change, and identify its key drivers.
• Summarize the current state of climate science and international policy.
• Recognize current international efforts to combat climate change. 
• Understand drivers for GHG accounting and reporting.
• Identify major GHG accounting standards and protocols.
• Define GHG accounting and reporting principles and develop accounting boundaries.
• Categorize GHG emissions as Scope 1, Scope 2 or Scope 3.

Language: English
Duration: 8 hours

Module One – Introduction to Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting Training Course

Upon completion of this course, you can:

• Understand and explain what is meant by a baseline year.
• Categorize emission sources as Scope 1, Scope 2 or Scope 3. 
• Develop a GHG Mitigation Plan.

Language: English
Duration: 8 hours

Module Two – GHG Protocol Quantification and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Training Course

Module Three – Verification of Greenhouse Gas Statements Training Course

Module Four – Validation of Greenhouse Gas Statements plus Verifying Removals and Net Zero Carbon Emissions Training Course

Preparing GHG Balance Sheets in accordance with RED II Training Course

A comprehensive learning experience on GHG calculations according to RED II guidelines. Participants are taught requirements on how to perform GHG calculations according to the RED II. This knowledge is applied during the course in small groups under guidance of SGS trained GHG experts.

Upon completion of this course, you can:

• Calculate GHG emissions along RED II requirements for transportation/collection and processing in oil mills, refineries and esterification/biodiesel plants
• Calculate and apply allocation and feedstock factors

Language: English
Duration: 2 days / 16 hours

ISO 14064 Greenhouse Gas Lead Verifier 
VILT Course

This training course consists of four modules. It offers you the skills and knowledge necessary to undertake a verification of a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory developed in accordance with ISO 14064-1:2019 using the verification standard ISO 14064-3:2019.