Training & Advisory Support: Your journey to sustainability.

Learn about the first steps of your emissions reduction journey with Climate Smart. We'll be here to support you every step of the way.

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Introduction

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How It Works

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Upcoming Training Series

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Climate Smart Software

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Book a Demo

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FAQs

Climate Smart isn’t just another online course. It’s your future-proof business strategy.

Become a sustainability leader. Develop your reduction plan and design a path to become a sustainable business.

Become a thought leader.

Transform your industry.

Climate Smart is an award-winning training and software program that helps small and medium businesses in every industry create greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, then devise emissions reduction plans to take action and make change.

Over the course of 4 to 6 months, we will guide you from “How do we start?” to “Wow, we have a solid plan, real data, and support to achieve our carbon reduction goals!”

Cut costs

Energy, fuel, and waste savings can have big financial impact. In a good way.

Cut CO2 emissions

Be a company that makes the effort to emit less pollutants.

Future-proof your business

Adapt to changing tides, mitigate risk, and cultivate positive environmental outcomes.

Build in-house skills

Help your team drive environmental and community initiatives long into the future.

Make it a community effort

Access a network of Climate Smart Certified businesses to tackle ambitious climate change targets.

Measure what matters

Attain carbon footprint metrics for reports, RFPs, plus solid numbers for complementary assessments like BCorp, Green Marine, and ISO.

Businesses trained globally.

Measure, reduce, share.

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Session 1: How to measure your current impact.

  • GHG 101. Learn the basics about greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Calculate a baseline. What is your carbon footprint right now?
  • Map your emissions. Where are they coming from? Learn how to collect and analyze data. Input your findings into our emissions calculation software.
  • Practice the Greenhouse Gas Protocol—the international standard for carbon accounting.
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Sessions 2 & 3: Make an emissions reduction plan.

  • Identify your best opportunities to reduce emissions and costs.
  • Build your own emissions reduction strategy.
  • Forecast financial and climate change benefits.
  • Create an actionable plan to reduce your emissions.
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Session 4: Communicate and celebrate.

  • Inspire your team to actively participate in your emissions reduction plan.
  • Share your Climate Smart Certification in your internal and external marketing efforts.
  • Become a climate leader in your industry.
  • Learn how to become carbon neutral.

Upcoming Training Dates

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September Cohort

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Session 1: Sep 12, 2023 (09:30 - 12:00 MDT)

Session 2: Sep 20, 2023 (09:30 - 11:30 MDT)

Session 3: Sep 21, 2023 (09:30 - 11:30 MDT)

Session 4: Sep 28, 2023 (09:30 - 11:30 MDT)

October Cohort

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Session 1: Oct 10, 2023 (09:30 - 12:00 MDT)

Session 2: Oct 18, 2023 (09:30 - 11:30 MDT)

Session 3: Oct 19, 2023 (09:30 - 11:30 MDT)

Session 4: Oct 26, 2023 (09:30 - 11:30 MDT)

November Cohort

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Session 1: Nov 7, 2023 (09:30 - 12:00 MDT)

Session 2: Nov 14, 2023 (09:30 - 11:30 MDT)

Session 3: Nov 15, 2023 (09:30 - 11:30 MDT)

Session 4: Nov 30, 2023 (09:30 - 11:30 MDT)

Don't see a time that works for you?

Get in touch with us to find out more about our on-demand training or other training times.

Carbon Footprinting

  • Understand, measure, and create plans to reduce your emissions.
  • Cut emissions to lower your operational costs.
  • Track and account for all types of emissions (Scope 1, 2, 3 emissions).
  • Measure the impact of your climate-related actions - on the planet and on your bottom line.
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Take your first step toward Net Zero. Become Climate Smart Certified.

FAQs

A thousand things! The most pertinent is this: Our Climate Smart training program allow businesses to achieve their business goals and lead in their industry while cultivating a climate-conscious culture internally at the same time. Our unique combination of training, tools, and technical assistance enable small, medium, and large businesses to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, make informed decisions to invest in efficiencies, and communicate compellingly about the action they’re taking on climate change.

Climate Smart is distinct from other consultancies in our capacity-building approach. Climate Smart businesses come away with the internal ability to analyze, measure, and reduce their company’s impact. We train key staff from each participant business in GHG management through training sessions, one-on-one coaching and access to Climate Smart’s online software tool. The idea: You become Climate Smart your team has the tools to lead the emissions reduction charge from within your organization ongoing.

Ultimately, it’s up to you. Generally, up to two people from each organization attend the Climate Smart training sessions. Ideally, one should be able to help locate emissions data (e.g., electricity, gas and fuel bills, travel records, etc.). Think about who is best to lead and champion the climate change charge within your organization. Who can inspire the team to act? If you want to send more staff, you absolutely can!

Approximately 4-6 months. This includes:

  1. 3-4 half-day training sessions (interactive online or in-person)
  2. Greenhouse gas inventory compilation
  3. Inventory review by Climate Smart technical experts
  4. Development of a cohesive, action-oriented emissions reduction plan

Knowledge is power.

Climate Smart helped us to identify the waste and inefficiencies within our business in terms of energy and also materials. This helped build an optimal implementation plan that is practical yet still leaves room for us to be aspirational.

MELISSA RADU Sustainability Manager, Edmonton Convention Centre

Help the planet. Become sustainable.