Applied Carbon Methods (P03386)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : BUS-P-CarbMeth

This course aims to turn out students who are able to approach dissertations with all the necessary research methods training to address most carbon management issues as well as enter any organisation and have the skills and knowledge on the key areas to research and evaluate carbon management and ultimately to make recommendations on improvement.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Only open to MSc Carbon Management students

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Common Courses (Business School), (Business School, Schedule H)

Other subject areas

Postgraduate Courses (School of GeoSciences), (School of GeoSciences, Schedule N)

Economics, (School of Economics, Schedule W)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 5 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 1 hour(s) per week for 5 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
13/01/2010	10:00	10:50

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Tutorial	Wednesday	10:00	10:50	Central
Lecture	Friday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, students should have:
- Understanding of dissertation research methods and requirements
- Understanding of key methods of Carbon Inventory measurement including carbon footprinting and lifecycle assessments
- Ability to conduct a footprint exercise
- Understanding of Carbon Benchmarking as a method of business comparison, performance evaluation and improvement including issues of allocation and normalisation
- Ability to conduct a Carbon Benchmark
- Proficiency in assessing carbon stocks and greenhouse gas fluxes in managed and natural ecosystems, and familiarity with measurement methodologies
- Understanding of limitations of reported stock and flux figures and budget
- Understanding of cost benefit analysis and its application to financial additionality assessment

Cognitive Skills
After completing this course, students should be able to:
- Critically assess ecosystem carbon stock and greenhouse gas budgets
- Critically assess ecosystem carbon footprints, league tables and benchmarks
- Understand the ways in which to work more effectively in teams to deliver carbon assessment reports and information relevant to academia, businesses and policy makers
Subject-Specific Skills
After completing this course, students should be able to:
- Understand the implications of changing methodologies on national and corporate GHG budget reporting
- Understand the implications of emerging flux and stock reporting policies on data generation, validation and uncertainty
- Be able to understand, speak and write the language of carbon stock, flux, footprint and benchmark measurement, cost benefit analysis and financial additionality assessment.

Assessment Information

Five exercises, each worth 20% of their final mark. The first exercise (research proposal) will be an individual assessment, the remainder will be group assessments. This will be 20% individual assessment and 80% group assessment.