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Institute of Carbon Accountants & Traders

Tom Toolan – Founder & Chairman - ICAT

The Pr The Professio essionally Bo nally Body f dy for Car r Caron A n Acco ccountants and T untants and Trader raders s

The Emergency of New Professions’ & Professional Body

Global Warming & Climate Change

• Scientist discovered the problem
• Consultants will make money out of the problem
• Governments will legislate to mitigate the

problem

BUT

Engineers will Solve the Problem

Global Warming & Climate Change

• Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change

(IPPC) in their 5th assessment report on climate change said:

• Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at

the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850

• Over the last two decades, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets

have been losing mass, glaciers have continued to shrink almost worldwide, and Arctic sea ice and Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover have continued to decrease in extent

• It is extre

xtreme mely lik ly likely ly that hu human man influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th centur

Global Warming & Climate Change

Institute of Carbon Accountants & Traders

Tom Toolan – Founder & Chairman - ICAT

The Pr The Professio essionally Bo nally Body f dy for Car r Caron A n Acco ccountants and T untants and Trader raders s

Who are Carbon Accountants & Traders

Who or are Carbon Accountants and Traders

• Engineers
• Financial Accountants
• Financial Trader
• Taxation advisor
• Auditors
• Sustainability

coordinators’

• Sustainability managers’
• Energy managers
• Facilities managers
• Carbon consultant/

advisors’

• Sustainability consultants
• Fuel poverty advisors
• Carbon Accounting and

energy Management IT Sales

• Researchers
• Authors
• Business Improvement

Consultant/Practitioner

• Carbon business

development managers

• Area sustainability

manager

• Director of sustainability
• Sustainability business
• Coach
• Teacher & lecturers’
• Vocational Assessors

Institute of Carbon Accountants & Traders

Tom Toolan – Founder & Chairman - ICAT

The Pr The Professio essionally Bo nally Body f dy for Car r Caron A n Acco ccountants and T untants and Trader raders s

Who or what is ICAT

Vision: Aims & Objectives:

The Creation of a global membership organisation for Carbon Accountants & Traders Spearheading the advancement of carbon accounting and trading by:

• Setting Standards - establish a self-regulating framework for

professional practice

• Providing education: qualifications and continued professional

development

• Knowledge Transfer
• Working with partners to eliminate carbon trading fraud
• Represent the interests of individual members

Advancing the Science of Carbon Accounting & Trading Globally

Institute of Carbon Accounting & Trading

Aims: To establish a self-regulating framework for professional practice Provide: Professional recognition Qualification framework for professional formation

Approve vocational and academic courses & training

providers (FE & HE) A focus for employers to advertise/recruit CA’s & Traders

Advancing the Science of Carbon Accounting & Trading Globally

Institute of Carbon Accounting & Trading

Aims: Represent members interests Protect the users of the professional services (Register of Carbon Accountants & Traders) Provide services to members (professional indemnity insurance) Influence Government Policy

Continued Professional Development activities

Professional Competence

The The situ situatio ation t n toda day: y:

• Emerging profession/market
• International
• Impacts on the public and private sector, without exception

èNo competence framework èNO qualifications èNO government support for skills development

• High levels of fraud in carbon trading
• Current UK Skills Strategy does not include Carbon

Accounting or Carbon Trading

• Incredible market potential: China, South Africa, India & UK

ICAT Competence Framework Qualifications & Membership

• ICAT Competence Framework
• Not accredited by any awarding body
• From level 3 to level 7
• Diploma in Carbon Accounting (L3)
• Diploma in Carbon Trading (L3)
• Incorporated Carbon Professional (L5)
• Certified Carbon Professional

★You don’t have to do ICAT qualifications to be a member

Me Membe mbership: T ship: Technician chnician Me Membe mbership: Inco ship: Incorpo porat rated d Me Membe mbership: Ce ship: Certif tifie ied d

Benefits of working with ICAT

Benefits of working with ICAT

Advancing the Science of Carbon Accounting & Trading Globally

Summary

ICAT - UK & World First

• International network/reach
• Linked with University of East Anglia
• Intrinsically linked to:

Engineering, Construction, Built Environment

• Professional formation, competence driven, supported by

qualifications with educational and career progression

• Significant support for students
• Significant support for educational providers
• Employer engagement
• Brand Association
• Significant market potential

Any Questions?

Tom Toolan – Chairman - ICAT

Masters: Strategic Carbon Management BA (Hons) Education, FIMechE, MIRTE MIET, MSEO, MIFL, PIIA. TeL: 07782250558