News I iCET and IED offer Carbon Accounting training program for NGOs

Recently, a coalition of 40 environmental non-government organizations officially launched the "C + Beyond Climate Action Initiative", which aims to encourage all levels of governments and all citizens to go beyond their emission reduction goals and pay attention to sustainable socio-economic development. This initiative, financially supported by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, was launched against the background that international climate negotiations has stalled and governments, especially those in developed countries, did not take sufficient action to address climate change.
 
There are three key concepts in the "C +, Beyond Climate Action Initiative". The first is transcending national goals, which is to encourage the government to achieve and exceed its commitment on emission reductions. The second is going beyond climate change, which is to combine climate change mitigation actions with socio-economic sustainability. The third is going beyond China's borders, meaning to apply China's experience in addressing climate change to the rest of the world.

As the leading organizers of "C+" and the C + MRV platform, iCET and the Institute of Environment and Development (IED) jointly develop a carbon accounting project, which aims at building the carbon accounting capacity within the member organizations of C+. A professional carbon accounting training course has already been scheduled for February 8-10, 2012. The project will also generate a practical manual for carbon accounting, and provide field trips and online technical support to NGOs in their carbon accounting practices.