SEE8115 - Carbon Audit and Management | ||||||||||
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| * The offering term is subject to change without prior notice | ||||||||||
Course Aims | ||||||||||
This
course aims to provide the students with the knowledge and principles needed to
carry out carbon audits in a number of sectors, to examine the impact of carbon
emission to our environment, to appreciate the function of carbon audits as a
means to help business sectors and corporations in estimating their carbon
footprints thereby setting objectives to manage and reduce these carbon
footprints, to apply various methods/approaches of reducing energy consumption
and carbon emissions, to carry out the carbon audit processes and to employ the
necessary skills to undertake such audit. As energy consumption is often one of
the dominating factors in carbon footprint analysis, the students will also
learn energy auditing and various energy management opportunities (EMOs). The
students will also learn carbon offsetting and carbon trading. | ||||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||||
Continuous Assessment: 60% | ||||||||||
Examination: 40% | ||||||||||
Examination Duration: 2 hours | ||||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||||
| SEE8115.pdf | ||||||||||
Useful Links | ||||||||||
| School of Energy and Environment | ||||||||||
