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SESSION: Training & Capacity-Building Scaling Up GHG Accounting Expertise Michael Gillenwater Dean and Executive Director. About us.

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  1. SESSION: Training & Capacity-BuildingScaling Up GHG Accounting ExpertiseMichael GillenwaterDean and Executive Director

  2. About us... “To train and develop a global community of experts with the highest standards of professional practice in measuring, accounting, auditing, and managing greenhouse gas emissions."

  3. Vision… “The society of greenhouse gas professionals.” Powerful force for change in society

  4. Core Programs • Membership • building a global community and norm setting • Training • building capacity • Professional certification • building confidence, infrastructure, and green jobs • Standards development portal (forthcoming) • scaling up GHG programs, markets, and technologies

  5. Challenges • GHG policies are expanding and new ones emerging • GHG emissions becoming a global commodity • Need to avoid “Enron” accounting problems • Need large global pool of well-trained experts to support GHG metrics • GHG management experts must operate with common ethical norms and provide high levels of competency

  6. Survey on Green Jobs • 2009 Greenhouse Gas and Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment Survey • More than 700 key GHG industry professionals, scientists, and organizational leaders across sectors and the globe http://ghginstitute.org/online-resources/survey/

  7. Current Workforce Needs

  8. Growth

  9. Future Workforce Needs

  10. Workforce Needs Survey

  11. Workforce Needs Survey

  12. The role of GHG Protocol?

  13. Capacity building vehicles

  14. Reality

  15. Universities • AWOL • Interdisciplinary • Requires curriculum innovation • Only tactic: Professor ← chicken and egg • Not what students want, not where jobs are needed

  16. IGO / NGO / Governments • Much talk…little backing • Scale: global • Timing: Urgent due to lags • Traditional approach • Paratrooper model • Little evaluation or long-term infrastructure development

  17. Professionalization • Creating a community • Education and training • Curriculum • Ethical norms/codes • Intellectual base • Journal • Textbooks • Institutions & infrastructure • Certification and peer policing ?

  18. Supplemental slides

  19. Training programAlumni

  20. Survey sample

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