Management School

The ISEP Pathways to Net Zero Course is a course which gives clear, consistent guidance on best practice on response to the climate crisis, the course aims to provide supervisors and leaders with a strategic and operational overview of environmental sustainability as it affects their specific industry and work area. 

There are eight Learning Outcomes for ISEP Pathways to Net Zero which correspond to the sections of the course:

1. Why net zero?
2. Responding to net zero
3. Greenhouse gas accounting – a primer
4. Carbon neutrality
5. Net zero methodologies
6. Developing a decarbonisation plan
7. Net zero across the value chain
8. Communicating net zero

The course will begin at 0930 and end at 1630 each day. The venue is the University of Liverpool.

This course gives a clear, practical overview of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and what it means for your organisation, how to calculate embedded emissions, how to create a Value Chain Map (VCM), how to collect and organise data for the verification requirements and how to measure and reduce your carbon tax liability.

This course provides a clear understanding of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). Delivered by an EPD verifier. In particular it will focus on how you quantify the full environmental impact of a product across its lifecycle, the mandatory requirements for selling products in Europe , and the key steps involved in developing an EPD.