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Florida Commuter Choice Certificate Program |
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Your
Organization's Carbon Footprint: Commuting and Business
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Audience: This course
is targeted to individuals and organizations who want to respond to
inquiries about their organization’s emissions of greenhouse gases, or
to proactively reduce the portion of those emissions caused by employee
commuting and business travel.
Description:
With increased political and public interest in
climate change, many organizations are starting to ask questions, and
receive them from the public or their customers, about their emissions
of greenhouse gases and what they are doing to reduce them. The module
takes as its starting point that participants have received such
inquiries (the module does not present or discuss climate science), and
need to respond to them. The module introduces carbon footprints and
provides information resources for responding to inquiries about,
calculating, and reducing the portion of an organization’s carbon
footprint that results from commuting and business travel.
Objectives:
After
this module, participants should be able to:
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Identify reasons
for calculating an organization’s carbon footprint
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Distinguish
between classes of emissions to be included in the footprint
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Identify types of
activities that yield emissions for business travel and commuting
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Identify sources
of data within the organization needed to estimate emissions for
these activities
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Understand basic
calculations of these emissions and identify external sources of
data needed to complete these estimates
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Identify general
strategies the organization can take to reduce these emissions
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Identify
information and calculator resources for the organization and its
employees who want to reduce these emissions
Instructor: Edward
L. Hillsman,
Ph. D. Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR)
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2010
Fall Registration Now Available for the FL Commuter Choice
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