Institute of Carbon Accountants & Traders 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 Tom Toolan – Founder & Chairman - ICAT
Global Warming & Climate Change • Scientist discovered the problem • Consultants will make money out of the problem • Governments will legislate to mitigate the problem BUT E ngineers will S olve the P roblem
Global Warming & Climate Change Working Group I of the I ntergovernmental P anel C limate C hange • (IPPC) in their 5 th 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 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 Tom Toolan – Founder & Chairman - ICAT
Who or are Carbon Accountants and Traders Engineers Carbon Accounting and • • energy Management IT • Financial Accountants Sales • Financial Trader • Researchers • Taxation advisor • Authors • Auditors • Business Improvement • Sustainability Consultant/Practitioner coordinators’ • Carbon business • Sustainability managers’ development managers • Energy managers • Area sustainability • Facilities managers manager • Carbon consultant/ • Director of sustainability advisors’ • Sustainability business • Sustainability consultants • Coach • Fuel poverty advisors • Teacher & lecturers’ • Vocational Assessors
Institute of Carbon Accountants & Traders 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 Tom Toolan – Founder & Chairman - 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
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 Advancing the Science of Carbon Accounting & Trading Globally
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) Me Membe mbership: T ship: Technician chnician • Diploma in Carbon Trading (L3) • Incorporated Carbon Professional (L5) Membe Me mbership: Inco ship: Incorpo porat rated d Me Membe mbership: Ce ship: Certif tifie ied d • Certified Carbon Professional ★ You don’t have to do ICAT qualifications to be a member
Benefits of working with ICAT
Benefits of working with ICAT
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 Advancing the Science of Carbon Accounting & Trading Globally
Any Questions? Tom Toolan – Chairman - ICAT Masters: Strategic Carbon Management BA (Hons) Education, FIMechE, MIRTE MIET, MSEO, MIFL, PIIA. TeL: 07782250558
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