Business and Net Zero Strategy Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Sustainability Managers, Strategy Managers and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-CCA-009

Before you join: Participants should have working experience in business planning, operations, finance, risk, sustainability, procurement or reporting.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Businesses face two connected climate management tasks: reducing greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to remain commercially viable under net zero policies, and preparing assets, supply chains, employees and customers for physical climate impacts. Decisions on energy, procurement, capital expenditure, product design and risk management now require defensible emissions data, climate scenarios and financial analysis. Poorly defined targets or untested transition plans can create regulatory exposure, stranded-asset risk, higher financing costs and missed market opportunities.

This course equips participants to build a business response to net zero and climate adaptation requirements. Participants learn to calculate and interpret Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions under the GHG Protocol; set science-based targets; identify decarbonisation options; assess physical and transition risks; and develop adaptation actions for priority sites, operations and suppliers. The course also addresses climate governance, disclosure, climate finance, internal carbon pricing and implementation planning using recognised frameworks including TCFD, ISSB IFRS S2 and the Science Based Targets initiative.

Delivery combines instructor briefings, worked calculations, sector cases, facilitated group analysis, climate-risk simulations and structured planning sessions. Cases reflect decisions faced by banks, public agencies, manufacturers, infrastructure operators, energy-intensive businesses and consumer-facing companies. Participants leave with a practical net zero and climate adaptation action-plan pack, including an emissions inventory structure, target-setting worksheet, risk register, decarbonisation option appraisal and implementation roadmap. The five-day programme runs from 08:30 to 16:30 each day, with approximately 6.5 contact hours daily, in classrooms in 50+ cities or live online. Participants receive a certificate of completion.

The course is suited to managers who contribute to sustainability, strategy, operations, finance, risk, procurement or reporting decisions and need to translate climate commitments into funded, governed business actions.

What you will be able to do

  • Calculate Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions using GHG Protocol inventory boundaries
  • Interpret climate science, carbon budgets and policy pathways for business planning
  • Develop science-based emissions reduction targets and transition-plan milestones
  • Evaluate decarbonisation options using marginal abatement cost curves and investment criteria
  • Assess physical and transition climate risks using scenario analysis and risk registers
  • Design adaptation actions for assets, supply chains and critical business services
  • Prepare climate disclosures aligned with TCFD recommendations and IFRS S2 requirements
  • Produce a funded net zero and climate adaptation implementation roadmap

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Ability to contribute credibly to net zero target and transition-plan discussions
  • Practical method for converting climate risks into operational adaptation actions
  • Confidence interpreting emissions inventories, reduction pathways and carbon data
  • Stronger capability to prepare climate investment cases and prioritisation decisions
  • Reusable evidence for sustainability, risk or strategy career progression

For your organisation

  • More consistent emissions baselines, target assumptions and reduction-accountability structures
  • Better prioritised capital expenditure for energy efficiency, electrification and resilience
  • Earlier identification of climate threats to sites, suppliers and critical services
  • Improved readiness for investor, lender, customer and regulatory climate-information requests
  • A practical implementation roadmap linking climate commitments to budgets and owners

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can explain how climate science, policy and market forces affect business strategy and decision-making.

  • Greenhouse effect, warming pathways and carbon budgets relevant to corporate planning
  • Distinguishing mitigation, adaptation, resilience and net zero business responses
  • Paris Agreement temperature goals and national climate-policy mechanisms
  • Transition risks from regulation, markets, technology, reputation and litigation
  • Physical hazards including heat, flood, drought, wildfire and sea-level rise
  • Materiality assessment connecting climate issues with enterprise value and stakeholders

Participants can define an organisational emissions inventory and interpret its principal data requirements.

  • GHG Protocol Corporate Standard organisational boundaries and consolidation approaches
  • Scope 1 emissions from stationary combustion, mobile sources and refrigerants
  • Location-based and market-based Scope 2 electricity accounting methods
  • Scope 3 Standard categories mapped to procurement, logistics and product data
  • Activity data, emission factors and calculation-quality checks
  • Base-year selection, recalculation policy and inventory assurance evidence

Participants can develop credible emissions targets, milestones and transition assumptions.

  • Science Based Targets initiative criteria for near-term corporate targets
  • Net zero target components: reductions, residual emissions and neutralisation
  • Absolute contraction and sectoral decarbonisation target-setting approaches
  • Translating emissions baselines into annual reduction trajectories and milestones
  • Target boundaries covering subsidiaries, joint ventures and value-chain emissions
  • Avoiding unsupported offset claims, double counting and misleading carbon neutrality

Participants can compare emissions reduction measures using technical, financial and operational criteria.

  • Energy efficiency opportunities identified through energy audits and load profiles
  • Electrification choices for heat, fleets, processes and building systems
  • Renewable electricity procurement through PPAs, certificates and onsite generation
  • Marginal abatement cost curves ranking measures by cost and emissions impact
  • Internal carbon pricing methods for capital allocation and procurement decisions
  • Business cases combining payback, NPV, implementation risk and carbon reductions

Participants can assess physical climate risks and specify proportionate adaptation measures.

  • Acute hazards versus chronic climate stresses affecting business assets
  • Climate hazard screening using location, exposure, vulnerability and adaptive capacity
  • Asset-level risk registers linking hazards to operational and financial impacts
  • Applying IPCC climate scenarios to flood, heat and water-stress assessments
  • Adaptation measures spanning engineering controls, operating procedures and insurance
  • Residual risk evaluation, trigger thresholds and business continuity escalation

Participants can use climate scenarios to test strategic assumptions and financial exposures.

  • Scenario analysis purpose, boundaries, assumptions and decision-useful outputs
  • NGFS scenarios for transition pathways, carbon prices and energy demand
  • Physical-risk scenarios using representative concentration pathways and time horizons
  • Translating climate drivers into revenue, cost, asset and financing impacts
  • Sensitivity analysis for carbon prices, energy costs and disruption duration
  • Resilience testing of critical services, sites, suppliers and recovery capacity

Participants can identify priority value-chain emissions sources and plan supplier engagement actions.

  • Spend-based, activity-based and supplier-specific Scope 3 estimation methods
  • Hotspot analysis identifying material purchased goods and transport emissions
  • Supplier engagement requirements for emissions data, targets and improvement plans
  • Procurement specifications incorporating lifecycle emissions and climate resilience criteria
  • Product lifecycle assessment boundaries, functional units and allocation choices
  • Customer-use and end-of-life emissions addressed through product design decisions

Participants can organise climate governance and reporting evidence for recognised disclosure requirements.

  • Board oversight, management accountability and climate-related decision rights
  • TCFD pillars: governance, strategy, risk management, metrics and targets
  • IFRS S2 climate-related disclosure requirements and financial-materiality considerations
  • Transition-plan disclosures covering actions, funding, dependencies and progress measures
  • Controls over emissions data, estimates, documentation and approval workflows
  • Limited assurance readiness using evidence files, reconciliations and audit trails

Participants can assess climate-related financing choices and carbon-market claims.

  • Green bonds, sustainability-linked loans and use-of-proceeds requirements
  • Climate investment appraisal under uncertainty using discounted cash flow methods
  • Physical-risk insurance, deductibles and risk-transfer decision criteria
  • Voluntary carbon market credits: additionality, permanence, leakage and verification
  • Carbon-credit hierarchy prioritising internal reductions before residual emissions claims
  • Funding adaptation projects through avoided losses, resilience benefits and co-benefits

Participants can produce an accountable roadmap for net zero delivery and climate adaptation.

  • Prioritisation matrix scoring emissions impact, risk reduction, cost and feasibility
  • Roadmap sequencing across quick wins, enabling projects and long-term investments
  • RACI matrix assigning climate actions, approvals and reporting responsibilities
  • Budget integration linking climate initiatives with annual planning cycles
  • Key performance indicators tracking emissions, resilience actions and target progress
  • Ninety-day application plan defining data requests, stakeholders and first decisions

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. GHG Protocol emissions inventory template
  2. Science-based target-setting worksheet
  3. Marginal abatement cost curve model
  4. Climate physical-risk and adaptation register
  5. TCFD and IFRS S2 disclosure checklist
  6. Net zero and adaptation implementation roadmap

Who should attend

  • Sustainability Managers — responsible for emissions targets, reporting and climate programmes
  • Strategy Managers — integrating transition risks and low-carbon opportunities into business plans
  • Risk Managers — assessing physical climate hazards and transition-related exposures
  • Operations and Facilities Managers — reducing operational emissions and strengthening site resilience
  • Finance and Investment Managers — appraising climate investments, carbon costs and capital allocation
  • Procurement and Supply Chain Managers — addressing supplier emissions and climate disruption risks

Skills and tools covered

GHG emissions accountingNet zero planningClimate risk assessmentAdaptation planningClimate disclosureTransition finance

Tools and standards

GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, Science Based Targets initiative, TCFD Recommendations, IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to establish core concepts, followed by worked examples, sector cases and facilitated group analysis. Participants examine emissions inventories, compare decarbonisation options, test climate scenarios and develop responses to physical hazards and transition pressures. Simulations address management decisions on targets, investment priorities, supply-chain exposure and disclosure evidence. Application planning sessions help participants adapt the methods to their own organisation, mandate and available data.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have working experience in business planning, operations, finance, risk, sustainability, procurement or reporting. Familiarity with basic financial concepts such as operating costs, capital expenditure and business cases is useful. Participants should be comfortable interpreting tables, charts and organisational data. Prior knowledge of climate science, carbon accounting, sustainability reporting or environmental management is not required. The course introduces the necessary terminology and then applies it to practical business decisions. No specialist software, engineering qualification or prior emissions inventory experience is needed.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants need professional experience in a business function such as sustainability, finance, operations, risk, strategy or procurement. No previous carbon accounting, climate science or sustainability reporting qualification is required.

Bring a laptop for live online delivery and, where permitted, examples of your organisation's emissions data, climate commitments, risk registers or energy information. Confidential data is not required; anonymised examples are sufficient.

The course suits managers and specialists responsible for decisions affected by emissions, climate risks or climate disclosures. It is particularly relevant to organisations with significant facilities, supply chains, financed emissions or public accountability.

Carbon accounting courses focus primarily on calculating and reporting emissions inventories. This course includes emissions accounting but also covers target setting, decarbonisation investment, physical climate adaptation, governance, disclosure and implementation.

Participants can use the templates and methods to structure an emissions baseline, identify priority climate risks, assess reduction options and prepare an action roadmap. The approach supports practical discussions with finance, operations, procurement, senior management and external stakeholders.

The programme contains ten teaching modules delivered in sequence, covering approximately 30 contact hours. Each day runs from 08:30 to 16:30, with approximately 6.5 contact hours alongside breaks, discussion and application work.

Questions about this course?

Ask about dates, fees, group bookings or running it for your team. Our training team replies by email.

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