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

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."

Vision… “The society of greenhouse gas professionals.” Powerful force for change in society Career pathway, professional gatekeeper Human resource capacity building Community building and professional norm setting

Core Programs 1.Membership – building a global community and norm setting 2.Training – building capacity 3.Professional certification – building confidence, infrastructure, and green jobs 4.Standards development portal (forthcoming) – scaling up GHG programs, markets, and technologies

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

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

Current Workforce Needs

Growth

Future Workforce Needs

Workforce Needs Survey

The role of GHG Protocol?

Capacity building vehicles Professional development Educational Sector IGO / NGO traditional modes Professionalization Industry (Internal training)

Reality Professional development Educational Sector IGO / NGO traditional modes Professionalization Industry (Internal training)

Universities AWOL – Interdisciplinary – Requires curriculum innovation Only tactic: Professor ← chicken and egg Not what students want, not where jobs are needed Climate science & research GAP GHG measurement & management Soft sustainability

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

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

SUPPLEMENTAL SLIDES

Training program Alumni

Survey sample