Low Carbon Skills

Low Carbon Skills is a fully-funded online programme, exclusively for individuals that live or work in Greater Manchester. The programme can also support businesses in Greater Manchester that are at an early stage on the path to net zero emissions.

About the course:

Understand Net Zero:

Put net zero into context, identify your key impacts and priorities and use carbon footprinting to inform your decisions.

Workshop 1: Climate Change, the Global Response and You

• Net zero and how it relates to climate change
• Global, national, and regional targets and you
• Risks of doing nothing benefits of action

Workshop 2: Gaining Insight with Carbon Footprinting

• How to calculate your footprint
• Using footprints to make decisions
• Methods and pitfalls of carbon offsetting

Improve operations 

Learn how to audit your premises, implement improvements and develop a net zero culture in the workplace.

Workshop 3: Improving Performance through Resource Efficiency and Transport Opportunities

• How to reduce energy, materials and waste
• Implementing quick wins for savings
• Future-proofing your fleet and travel

Workshop 4: Developing an Engaged and Supportive Workforce

• Embedding a net zero culture
• How to incentivise action
• Sharing ownership and progress

Build Competitive Advantage

Discover how to integrate sustainability into procurement, influence your suppliers and leverage your credentials to win new business.

Workshop 5: Understanding your Impacts and Writing a Winning Environmental Policy

• Identify your environmental impacts
• Why you need an effective policy
• What your policy should cover

Workshop 6: Managing Risk in your Supply Chain

• How suppliers impact emissions and resilience
• Embedding net zero into your relationships
• Effective methods of engagement

Implement your strategy

Set targets in line with climate science, establish a plan for continual improvement and understand how to monitor progress.

Workshop 7: Executing your Strategy Successfully

• Setting and prioritising your targets
• Short-to-long-term action planning
• Build your green credentials & avoid greenwashing

Optional one-to-one support from advisors following completion

Start date:

Please get in touch by registering your interest, once your form has been reviewed a member of our Recruitment team will be in touch. 

Eligibility criteria:

• 16+
• resident of Greater Manchester
• OR working for a business based in Greater Manchester.

To apply:

For more information call 0161 359 3050 or email ResourceEfficiency@growthco.uk