Diploma of Carbon Management

Are you ready to be 'carbon accountable'?

Diploma details:

Campus: Hawthorn, Online
Duration: 12 months (part-time: only 6 x 1-2 day workshops)
Intake: Online course in August; Blended course in October

Applications now open for 2012. Click here to apply

Why study Carbon Management?

The new carbon constrained economy demands business and managers of all disciplines to be ‘carbon accountable’. This groundbreaking new course will provide you with the skills and knowledge to assess risk, create and implement carbon management strategies and assess and apply the principles of energy, policy and change management.

Already studied Carbon Accounting?

Lower your study load!

The two units of the short course in Carbon Accounting (21882VIC) are included in the Diploma of Carbon Management. This means that if you have already completed the short course, you will be eligible for credit transfers and only need to complete five units to achieve the diploma.

Career opportunities

Project management in organisational change, sustainability, and climate change. Management working in environmental and risk management positions. environmental, sustainability and climate change consultants to industry. Management in emission intensive industries.

Benefits and learning outcomes

Graduates of the Diploma of Carbon Management will be able to meet the current and future industry requirements to effectively work within their chosen fields with a comprehensive understanding, and capacity to build, robust approaches to carbon management. Vocational outcomes of this course are to:

Support individuals and groups to engage in carbon management projects
Apply recognised tools and techniques for managing and monitoring projects to reduce carbon emissions
Apply effective communication techniques and networking strategies to underpin co-operative relationships between stakeholders
Plan for, and support, behaviour change and sustainable practices within a range of contexts
Plan for, and support, best practice for carbon management projects within a range of contexts
Apply technology and innovation opportunities to carbon reduction
Apply project management techniques, tools, frameworks and methodologies that are appropriate across a range of carbon management project contexts

Course structure

This diploma comprises seven core units of study and involves a ‘blended’ delivery mode including workshops, online, individual assignments, team-based assignments and applied learning in the workplace or simulated environment.

Unit structure

VU20131: Apply principles of energy and resource efficiency to greenhouse gas management
Participants will develop the skills and knowledge required to apply the principles of energy and resource efficiency to determine options for the management of greenhouse gas emissions. Participants research and apply scientific, social and environmental matters relevant to energy and resource utilisation.
VPB436:Develop and implement a program to support behavioural change and sustainable practices
Upon successful completion of this unit, participants will have a working knowledge of the key issues affecting individual and organisational behavioural change towards sustainable practices.
VPAU324:Develop carbon inventory for the workplace
This unit describes the outcomes required to identify and categorise the carbon emissions of an organisation, determine the correct methods for estimating those emissions and produce a carbon inventory for that organisation.
VPAU325:Develop a carbon report for the workplace
This unit applies to the business environment of any organisation, including commercial operations, community organisations such as not-for-profit non-government organisations and government agencies that wish to provide a report on that organisation’s carbon emissions and their response to it.
VU20132:Create and implement a professional development program to support greenhouse gas managment
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to design, implement and review a professional development program to inform and engage individuals and organisations to support greenhouse gas management.
VU20133:Create a greenhouse gas management plan
The purpose of this unit is to design and create a greenhouse gas management plan. Participants research current practice in greenhouse gas management and approaches for organisational change.
VU20134:Implement a greenhouse gas management plan
Upon successful completion of this unit, participants will be able to implement an emissions management plan; document the results; promulgate them to a range of stakeholders; and apply continuous improvement strategies to the plan.

HOW TO APPLY:

Applications are now open for 2012. Places are limited. To apply for this course click here.

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