Course 18 of 20 · Emissions and Carbon Desk Academy

Claims, Integrity & Buyer Communications

Stage E, Integrity, stress and integrated practice. Level 9 of 10.

What a retired unit permits a buyer to say, and the substantiation, disclosure and assurance that stands behind that statement.

120 chapters · 11 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 07, Course 15, Course 17

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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 · 120 chapters

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

M0 What a Claim Actually Is Ch 1-11
  1. From a Retired Tonne to a Spoken Sentence
  2. The Four Parts of a Carbon Claim
  3. Entity, Product, Event and Service Claims
  4. Which Reporting Period a Claim Belongs To
  5. Exclusivity: One Tonne, One Speaker
  6. Why Retirement Is Necessary but Never Sufficient
  7. Compensation and Contribution as Two Sentences
  8. The Working Vocabulary of Claim Language
  9. The Buyer Speaks, Not the Registry or the Seller
  10. Four Sources of Claim Rules and Their Different Force
  11. Why This Subject Moves and How the Course Handles It
M1 The Chain of Entitlement Ch 12-21
  1. The Entitlement Chain From Issuance to Statement
  2. Title, Beneficial Interest and the Right to Retire
  3. The Beneficiary Field Is Not a Claim
  4. Reading a Retirement Statement as Claim Evidence
  5. Double Issuance, Double Selling and Double Claiming
  6. Corresponding Adjustment Status as a Claim Input
  7. When a Host Country and a Buyer Both Want the Tonne
  8. Passing a Claim Down a Supply Chain
  9. The Contract Clauses That Carry Claim Entitlement
  10. When the Registry Record Contradicts the Public Statement
M2 What Each Claim Type Permits Ch 22-33
  1. Carbon Neutrality Under ISO 14068-1
  2. Net Zero Claims and the Science Based Targets Position
  3. Climate Positive and Carbon Negative Wording
  4. Contribution Claims and Why Buyers Move to Them
  5. Product-Level Claims and the Per-Unit Footprint
  6. Per-Transaction Claims on a Flight, Shipment or Event
  7. Insetting and Value Chain Intervention Wording
  8. Avoided Emissions Claims and Their Assumptions
  9. Removal Claims Against Reduction Claims in Wording
  10. Neutralisation, Compensation and the Residual Tonne
  11. Why an Electricity Attribute Claim Is Not a Credit Claim
  12. Claims About a Target Against Claims About an Achievement
M3 The Mitigation Hierarchy Argument Ch 34-43
  1. Reduce First: Where the Principle Is Actually Written
  2. The Case Against Offsetting as Substitution
  3. The Case for Market Finance and Its Assumptions
  4. Beyond Value Chain Mitigation as a Separate Category
  5. Caps and Thresholds on Credit Use Inside Frameworks
  6. Residual Emissions: A Definition Nobody Shares
  7. Interim Years and the Timing of Credit Use
  8. The Like-for-Like Argument on Removals
  9. Advising an Internal Client on a Contested Rule
  10. Where the Hierarchy Binds and Where It Only Persuades
M4 Substantiation: Building the File Ch 44-54
  1. The Substantiation File as a Deliverable
  2. The Inventory Figure the Claim Rests On
  3. Reconciling Retired Volume to Claimed Volume
  4. Vintage, Origin and Timing Inside the File
  5. Evidencing Exclusivity in Practice
  6. Carrying the Quality Basis In Without Re-Running It
  7. Recording Durability Expectations Behind a Removal Claim
  8. Keeping a File Current Through a Claim's Life
  9. Version Control and the Restatement Record
  10. The Index a Challenger Will Ask For First
  11. Custody, Retention and Who Answers for the File
M5 Disclosure Surfaces and Frameworks Ch 55-65
  1. Disclosure and Communication Are Different Acts
  2. Gross Emissions Reported, Credits Shown Separately
  3. Disclosing Credit Use in a CDP Response
  4. Carbon Credits Under IFRS S2
  5. Credits and Claims Under the European Reporting Standards
  6. Where a Claim Meets the Annual Report
  7. Packaging, Advertising and the Smallest Disclosure Surface
  8. Answering a Customer Sustainability Questionnaire
  9. Disclosing Reliance, Quality and Known Weakness
  10. Disclosing a Target That Depends on Future Purchases
  11. One Claim Across Many Documents
M6 Regulation of Environmental Claims Ch 66-78
  1. Consumer Protection Law as the Principal Constraint
  2. The European Directive on Empowering Consumers
  3. The Green Claims Directive Proposal and Its Uncertain Course
  4. The United Kingdom Green Claims Code
  5. Advertising Self-Regulation and Ruling Patterns
  6. United States Federal Trade Commission Green Guides
  7. California's Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosure Statute
  8. Australian Greenwashing Enforcement and Guidance
  9. France and the Regulation of Neutrality Advertising
  10. Investor-Facing Claims and Securities Liability
  11. Comparative Claims and the Competitor Who Objects
  12. A Surrendered Allowance Is Not a Voluntary Claim
  13. Sorting Legal Requirement From Good Practice
M7 Voluntary Codes and Integrity Labels Ch 79-88
  1. Why Voluntary Claim Codes Appeared at All
  2. The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Claims Code
  3. The Prerequisites a Claims Code Imposes Before Any Tier
  4. A Core Carbon Principles Label Is Not a Claim Permission
  5. ISO 14068-1 and the Standard It Replaced
  6. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Role and Its Live Revision
  7. Target Validation Is Not Claim Approval
  8. What a Label Transfers and What It Does Not
  9. Choosing a Code to Align To, and What It Costs
  10. When a Voluntary Code and the Law Disagree
M8 Assurance Over a Claim Ch 89-99
  1. What Assurance Is, and What It Is Not
  2. Limited and Reasonable Assurance in Plain Language
  3. The Assurance Standards an Engagement Runs Under
  4. Verification Under ISO 14064-3 and ISO 14068-1
  5. Criteria: Assurance Needs Something to Assure Against
  6. Scoping an Engagement Over a Claim Sentence
  7. The Evidence an Assurer Will Request
  8. Qualified Conclusions and What to Do With One
  9. Assuring the Records Against Assuring the Statement
  10. Independence, Competence and Choosing a Provider
  11. Internal Control Before External Assurance
M9 Buyer Communications in Practice Ch 100-110
  1. Writing the Sentence Itself
  2. Qualifiers, Footnotes and the Asterisk Problem
  3. The Claim Register as a Single Source
  4. The Approval Route a Claim Must Clear
  5. Briefing an Agency Without Losing the Qualifier
  6. Spokesperson Discipline and the Unscripted Answer
  7. Talking to Investors About Credit Reliance
  8. When a Customer Asks to Repeat Your Claim
  9. Answering a Challenge From a Campaigner or Journalist
  10. Correction, Retraction and Restatement
  11. The Decision Not to Communicate
M10 Integration and Honest Limits Ch 111-120
  1. A Worked Claim, Part One: The Position and the Footprint
  2. A Worked Claim, Part Two: Units, Wording and Permission
  3. A Worked Claim, Part Three: File, Criteria and Assurance
  4. A Worked Claim, Part Four: Publication and Challenge
  5. The Same Claim Argued From Both Sides
  6. Where This Treatment Simplified Deliberately
  7. What Claim Discipline Cannot Deliver
  8. A Live Claim When the Rules Change Underneath It
  9. The Claim Pack Handed to the Next Cycle
  10. Reading a Claim You Did Not Write

The brochure gives each of these 120 chapters a paragraph on what it covers and what you can do once you have worked through it.

This is course 18 of twenty

It stands alone, and it is also the entry point to the Emissions and Carbon Desk Academy pathway.

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