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Climate, ESG & Sustainable Finance5-day executive programUSD $1,999

GHG Accounting & Scope 1-3 Inventories

Build complete corporate emissions inventories.

IPAT Executive Certificate 5 intensive days CEOs, CFOs, chief sustainability officers, treasury and investor relations leaders, project developers, lenders and regulators shaping sustainable finance.
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The executive challenge

The problem this program solves

Every department reports ghg accounting differently, nobody owns the number, and an investor with a diligence checklist is asking to see it. The talent that could build your ghg accounting capability goes where the data, the mandate and the budget already exist. You leave with a baselined, costed and sequenced ghg accounting blueprint — and the data architecture to defend every number in it.

Context

Why this matters now

Climate shocks are already on the balance sheet: ghg accounting risk does not wait for policy.
GHG Accounting disclosure is becoming mandatory: ISSB-aligned standards are entering African regulation market by market.
Green capital is plentiful for credible ghg accounting plans; institutions without one finance their transition at conventional cost.

Capability

What you will be able to do

  • Model ghg accounting project economics to the standard lenders require.
  • Produce disclosure-grade ghg accounting reporting that survives assurance.
  • Prepare ghg accounting data and governance for third-party assurance.
  • Read materiality in ghg accounting: what matters financially, and to whom.

The IPAT Course Standard

The five-day journey

Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.

IPAT Signature Case™

Forty Mini-Grids and One Expiring Subsidy

A rural electrification portfolio at a cement manufacturer was built on subsidised capital. The subsidy ends, collections run 20% below forecast, and the ghg accounting economics of every site are different.

Your decision: Run the portfolio triage, set the refinancing strategy, and decide what the communities and the lender hear.

Site-level unit economicsCollection rate panelRefinancing term sheets

IPAT Data Lab™

The ghg accounting claims in a mini-grid developer’s report cannot survive an assurance engagement — yet.

Dataset: Synthetic ESG data-pipeline extracts with estimation gaps and inconsistent boundaries.

Your task: Repair the pipeline, rebuild the disclosure-grade numbers, and run the assurance pre-check.

An assurance-ready ghg accounting dataset and disclosure draft.

Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate

Day 5 · The Capstone

What will you change when you return to work?

Produce an IFRS S1/S2-aligned reporting and transition blueprint for your organisation: baselines, targets, data systems, governance and capital.

You leave with: IFRS S1/S2-aligned Reporting & Transition Blueprint

Methodology

Frameworks you will master

IPAT-proprietary methodology
  • • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
Established practice you will apply
  • • IFRS S1/S2 (ISSB) disclosure architecture
  • • GHG Protocol inventory standards
  • • EU carbon border and sustainability trade rules

Cohorts

Upcoming cohorts

Feb8
8 February 2027 – 12 February
Johannesburg, South Africa 25 seats
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