Carbon Literacy Training with Keep Scotland Beautiful: Summer 2025 course

Who is this training for?

This training is for anyone interested in learning about causes and impacts of climate change and finding out more about solutions to combat it, including personal actions you can take.

Organisations may choose to send a small number of employees onto this course before working with us to create a course tailored to their own area of area of work and business needs.

The training is fully accredited by the Carbon Literacy Project and gives you the opportunity to be certified as Carbon Literate. Being Carbon Literate means gaining knowledge of the carbon costs and impacts of everyday activities and identifying positive actions to tackle them.

Why is being certified as Carbon Literate important?

Having a Carbon Literate workforce is vital to help businesses meet the new regulations and customer expectations that a net-zero Scotland will bring. Businesses with a Carbon Literate workforce will find they can develop more efficient and cost-effective operations. And as an individual, you’ll find the training empowers you to take effective action on climate change and develop your skills and experience.

More about the training

In addition to the global context, we utilise content relevant to Scotland. And we cut through the jargon, so you’ll have a clear understanding of terms like ‘global warming’, ‘climate change’, ‘net zero’ and ‘carbon footprint’.

Climate impacts can seem overwhelming, so we emphasise hope over despair and include information on co-benefits of action on climate change.

Our Carbon Literacy Training is eight hours of learning and takes place over four weeks. Each week involves an hour-long online session led by our expert trainers, followed by some self-study tasks to be completed before the next session.

The content of the sessions for this course is outlined:

• Week 1: An introduction to climate change (21 August)
• Week 2: Climate impacts and adaptation (28 August)
• Week 3: Reducing emissions (4 September)
• Week 4: Climate action and communication (11 September)

All the above sessions will run 14:00 - 15:00.

We keep the training class size to a maximum of 15 participants to allow for group interaction and discussion.

To go forwards and apply to be certified as Carbon Literate you must attend all four of the live sessions, and complete the self-study tasks, including the Carbon Literacy Assessment

Price

• £115 excluding VAT (includes Carbon Literate certification with the Carbon Literacy Project)
• Pay by credit or debit card via Eventbrite
• To request to pay via invoice, please email climate@keepscotlandbeautiful.org

Are we running the same course on any other dates in 2025?

Yes, we are also running the same course:

• Autumn 2025: 6 November, 13 November, 20 November & 27 November.

You can find out more and book these dates via our Eventbrite Collection here.

What other training like this do we have available?

Our full range of Climate Emergency Training includes a variety of Carbon Literacy Training, plus shorter introductory options, and can viewed via our website here or in our brochure here.

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If your attendance at the training has been organised by an organisation or company we may share relevant information with them.

We will not record any of the training in full, however, we may take short video clips and images for use in marketing and promotion of the training. Your face and speech may be recorded if you switch on your webcam/microphone, and the username you choose when joining the training may also be recorded. Your contributions to training discussion sessions via text chat may also feature in the recording. We may use the video clips and recordings for future promotion of our activities. This includes, without limitation the right to use the recordings in publicity materials, newsletters, newspapers, magazine articles, exhibitions, films, television and online (web and social media). The recordings may be made available for others to share, including partners and the press. We will give you notice in the training before we take videos or images, so you can choose whether you want to be involved in them.

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