Course 02 of 20 · Emissions and Carbon Desk Academy

Emissions Quantities, Boundaries & Evidence

Stage A, Market foundations. Level 1 of 10.

How an emissions quantity is defined, bounded, measured and evidenced before any trade or claim rests on it.

118 chapters · 11 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 01

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How a chapter is delivered

One chapter is one idea taken to the point of use

Each chapter covers one idea to the point where you can use it, and comes two ways: a narrated explainer, and a deep dive audio discussion of around thirty minutes that works the same material at depth.

Self-paced throughout, and the same chapters can be taught as a cohort. Chapters run in order: each one assumes only what the chapters before it taught, and capability belonging to a later course is named and deferred rather than half-covered.

Curriculum

11 modules · 118 chapters

Open any module for its full chapter list, in teaching order.

M0 What an Emissions Quantity Is Ch 1-12
  1. Why Most Tonnes Are Constructed, Not Observed
  2. Carbon Dioxide Equivalent as a Common Denominator
  3. The Greenhouse Gases a Carbon Desk Actually Meets
  4. Global Warming Potential and the Horizon It Assumes
  5. When the Multiplier Set Is Revised, History Moves
  6. Measured, Calculated and Estimated Are Three Different Numbers
  7. A Counterfactual Tonne Is Not a Measured Tonne
  8. Reductions, Avoided Emissions and Removals as Quantity Types
  9. Absolute Tonnage Against an Intensity Ratio
  10. The Four Questions Behind Any Stated Tonnage
  11. The Vocabulary of Quantification
  12. How a Quantity Gets Built, Module by Module
M1 Whose Emissions: The Organisational Boundary Ch 13-23
  1. The Consolidation Question Comes Before Any Arithmetic
  2. Equity Share Consolidation
  3. Financial Control Consolidation
  4. Operational Control Consolidation
  5. One Group, Three Boundaries, Three Totals
  6. Joint Ventures and the Gap Between Partners
  7. Leased Assets and Who Reports the Tonne
  8. Outsourced Operations and Contracted Labour
  9. A Trading Entity With Almost No Assets
  10. Acquisitions, Divestments and a Moving Boundary
  11. Restating a Base Year After a Structural Change
M2 Direct, Indirect and Value Chain Boundaries Ch 24-34
  1. Direct and Indirect Releases as a Reporting Device
  2. Direct Releases: Four Families of Source
  3. The Tonne Inside a Purchased Megawatt Hour
  4. The Grid Average Method for Purchased Energy
  5. The Contractual Method and the Instrument It Reads
  6. Why One Buyer Legitimately Reports Two Figures
  7. Upstream Value Chain Categories in Outline
  8. Downstream Categories and the Use of Sold Products
  9. Screening the Value Chain for What Matters
  10. The Same Tonne in Two Companies' Books
  11. Where the Reporting Categories Break Down
M3 The Installation and Site Boundary Ch 35-44
  1. The Regulated Installation as a Unit of Account
  2. Drawing the Fence Line
  3. The Source Stream Register
  4. Minor Sources and the De Minimis Argument
  5. Aggregation: When Several Units Are One Installation
  6. Imported and Exported Heat
  7. Carbon Dioxide Transferred Out Rather Than Released
  8. Shared Infrastructure, Two Permits
  9. Commissioning, Shutdown and a Boundary That Moves Mid-Year
  10. Reconciling a Site Boundary to a Corporate One
M4 Period, Vintage and Place Ch 45-53
  1. The Reporting Period and What Falls Inside It
  2. Dated by Combustion, Not by Invoice
  3. Opening and Closing Stock at the Period Edge
  4. Vintage: The Year Stamped on a Unit
  5. Annual, Monthly and Near-Real-Time Figures
  6. Where the Tonne Was Released
  7. A Source That Two Jurisdictions Both Claim
  8. Reopening a Period Already Closed
  9. Choosing a Base Year, and the Rolling Alternative
M5 Activity Data: The Primary Input Ch 54-64
  1. Activity Data Is the Number Everything Multiplies
  2. Metering Gaseous Fuel at a Site
  3. Weighing and Dipping: Solid and Liquid Quantities
  4. The Invoice as Activity Data
  5. Net and Gross Calorific Value
  6. Converting Volume to Mass to Energy
  7. Sampling and Analysing a Fuel Batch
  8. Missing Data and the Substitution Rule
  9. Two Meters, One Stream, Double Counted
  10. Reconciling Activity Data to the Financial Ledger
  11. One Month of Activity Data, Assembled
M6 Emission Factors and Conversion Ch 65-76
  1. What an Emission Factor Encodes
  2. Default Factors Against Site-Specific Factors
  3. Carbon Content and the Chemistry Behind the Factor
  4. Oxidation Factors and the Carbon That Never Burns
  5. Biomass and the Conditional Zero
  6. Mixed and Blended Fuels
  7. Process Releases and the Mass Balance Method
  8. Fugitive Releases and the Factor Nobody Meters
  9. Grid Factors and the Residual Pool
  10. Factor Hierarchies and Tier Requirements
  11. When a Published Factor Is Updated
  12. Selecting Factors for One Mixed Site
M7 Measurement Instead of Calculation Ch 77-85
  1. Measuring the Stack Instead of the Fuel
  2. A Continuous Monitoring System, Component by Component
  3. Availability, Downtime and Data Capture Rates
  4. Calibration, Drift and the Annual Check
  5. Predictive and Parametric Monitoring
  6. Finding and Sizing a Methane Leak
  7. Remote Observation as Evidence
  8. Choosing a Method Under an Obligation
  9. When the Measured and Calculated Figures Disagree
M8 Uncertainty, Materiality and Quality Ch 86-95
  1. Every Quantity Carries an Uncertainty
  2. Combining Uncertainties Through a Multiplication
  3. Accuracy and Precision Are Not the Same
  4. The Misstatement a Verifier Will Tolerate
  5. Conservativeness as a Deliberate Bias
  6. Significant Figures and Manufactured Precision
  7. Tiers as an Uncertainty Budget
  8. Reporting a Range and a Point Together
  9. An Uncertainty Statement a Counterparty Can Read
  10. What Better Data Cannot Fix
M9 The Monitoring Plan and the Data Trail Ch 96-106
  1. The Monitoring Plan as the Governing Document
  2. Writing the Plan: Structure and Content
  3. The Named Data Owner
  4. Segregation of Duties Around a Reported Figure
  5. Version Control and Approved Method Changes
  6. Data Lineage From Instrument to Report
  7. The Evidence Pack Behind One Tonne
  8. Retention, Storage and Retrieval of Records
  9. Systems That Hold the Quantity
  10. Internal Review Before Anyone Else Looks
  11. Non-Conformities and the Corrective Action Record
M10 Evidence Under Challenge, and the Limits Ch 107-118
  1. What an Assurance Engagement Actually Tests
  2. Limited and Reasonable Assurance Compared
  3. The Site Visit, the Sample and the Walkthrough
  4. Reading a Qualified Opinion
  5. Recalculation and Restatement Policy
  6. Defending a Quantity, Part One: Boundary and Period
  7. Defending a Quantity, Part Two: Data and Factors
  8. Defending a Quantity, Part Three: Uncertainty and Evidence
  9. One Site's Annual Quantity, End to End
  10. The Simplifications Built Into This Account
  11. What Quantification Cannot Establish
  12. Where the Deferred Quantity Threads Resume

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This is course 2 of twenty

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