ISO 14064-1:2018 Greenhouse Gas Inventory Auditing Lead Auditor Training

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40 hours: 36 standard and audit foundation lessons, 16 advanced lead-audit lessons, four practical assignments including observed individual audit leadership, and a 40-question final exam. AED 999. W3 completion only. This training does not itself grant professional registration, accreditation or authority to certify organizations. The course develops leadership of organizational GHG inventory audits. It does not confer GHG verifier qualification or deliver a verification opinion. External GHG assurance needs an agreed programme, competence, materiality and assurance arrangements, with ISO 14064-3:2019 as a relevant separate reference. Do not treat ISO 14064-1 as a generic management-system certification standard.

LO01: Interpret the subject standard and applicable audit criteria
LO02: Evaluate domain-specific evidence and performance
LO03: Manage a risk-based programme and feasible plan
LO04: Lead an independent competent audit team
LO05: Interview sample and corroborate evidence
LO06: Write and classify defensible findings
LO07: Report bounded conclusions and evaluate corrective action
LO08: Demonstrate observed leadership and verify effectiveness

Course Content

GHG inventory foundations
Explain organizational GHG inventories, key terms and the role of ISO 14064-1:2018.

Course route and lead auditor responsibilities
GHG sources sinks and carbon dioxide equivalent
The standard and the assurance boundary

Principles and inventory boundaries
Evaluate the five inventory principles and the organizational and reporting boundaries.

Emission categories and significance
Classify sources and evaluate significant indirect emissions and justified exclusions.

Activity data factors and units
Trace source data, emission factors and GWP values into controlled quantification methods.

Auditing GHG calculations
Recalculate combustion, imported energy and refrigerant emissions with appropriate units.

Base years removals and mitigation
Evaluate comparable base years, biogenic information, removals and reduction claims.

Inventory quality and reporting
Assess data controls, uncertainty, reporting and the organization’s verification arrangements.

Internal audit principles and programme
Apply independence, competence and risk-based planning to a GHG inventory audit.

Preparing the inventory audit
Define objectives, criteria, samples and a feasible evidence-led audit plan.

Conducting the inventory audit
Corroborate evidence through interviews, records, recalculation and authorized observation.

Findings reporting and follow-up
Write supported findings and verify correction, corrective action and effectiveness.

Integrated GHG audit practice
Evaluate a complete teaching inventory and prepare the assessed internal-audit response.

Lead audit preparation and programme
Advanced leadership and practical application to organizational and reporting boundaries, source data, factors, base years and claims.

Audit execution and team leadership
Advanced leadership and practical application to organizational and reporting boundaries, source data, factors, base years and claims.

Findings communication and reporting
Advanced leadership and practical application to organizational and reporting boundaries, source data, factors, base years and claims.

Corrective action follow up and assessment
Advanced leadership and practical application to organizational and reporting boundaries, source data, factors, base years and claims.

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Course Content

GHG inventory foundations Explain organizational GHG inventories, key terms and the role of ISO 14064-1:2018.

Course route and lead auditor responsibilities

GHG sources sinks and carbon dioxide equivalent

The standard and the assurance boundary

Principles and inventory boundaries Evaluate the five inventory principles and the organizational and reporting boundaries.

Applying the five inventory principles

Organizational boundaries and consolidation

Reporting boundaries and source identification

Emission categories and significance Classify sources and evaluate significant indirect emissions and justified exclusions.

Direct and indirect emission categories

Assessing significant indirect emissions

Exclusions estimates and programme requirements

Activity data factors and units Trace source data, emission factors and GWP values into controlled quantification methods.

Activity data and source reconciliation

Selecting and controlling emission factors

GWP conversions and dimensional checks

Auditing GHG calculations Recalculate combustion, imported energy and refrigerant emissions with appropriate units.

Combustion emission calculations

Imported electricity and energy claims

Refrigerants fugitive emissions and stock

Base years removals and mitigation Evaluate comparable base years, biogenic information, removals and reduction claims.

Base years and comparable performance

Biogenic carbon removals and reservoirs

Mitigation initiatives and targets

Inventory quality and reporting Assess data controls, uncertainty, reporting and the organization’s verification arrangements.

Data quality controls and uncertainty

Auditing the GHG report

Preparing for verification and addressing issues

Internal audit principles and programme Apply independence, competence and risk-based planning to a GHG inventory audit.

Auditor conduct competence and independence

Risk-based internal audit programme

Audit objectives criteria and scope

Preparing the inventory audit Define objectives, criteria, samples and a feasible evidence-led audit plan.

Pre-audit document review

Sampling and data-trail design

The practical audit plan

Conducting the inventory audit Corroborate evidence through interviews, records, recalculation and authorized observation.

Opening and interviewing

Recalculation and authorized observation

Reconciling conflicting evidence

Findings reporting and follow-up Write supported findings and verify correction, corrective action and effectiveness.

Writing defensible findings

Closing meeting and internal audit report

Correction corrective action and effectiveness

Integrated GHG audit practice Evaluate a complete teaching inventory and prepare the assessed internal-audit response.

Preparing the integrated inventory case

Reconciling the inventory and performance claim

Submission and professional judgment

Lead audit preparation and programme Advanced leadership and practical application to organizational and reporting boundaries, source data, factors, base years and claims.

Commission and audit agreement

Programme priorities and resources

Team competence and impartiality

Readiness review and audit stages

ISO 14064-1:2018 Audit programme and engagement plan

Audit execution and team leadership Advanced leadership and practical application to organizational and reporting boundaries, source data, factors, base years and claims.

Two day audit planning

Evidence strategy and sampling

Opening meeting and communication

Neutral interviewing and challenge

ISO 14064-1:2018 Evidence evaluation and defensible findings

Findings communication and reporting Advanced leadership and practical application to organizational and reporting boundaries, source data, factors, base years and claims.

Remote evidence and information protection

Team reviews and changing priorities

Findings and classification

Closing meeting and difficult conversations

ISO 14064-1:2018 Observed audit leadership simulation

Corrective action follow up and assessment Advanced leadership and practical application to organizational and reporting boundaries, source data, factors, base years and claims.

Reports and supported conclusions

Corrective action review

Follow up and continuing competence

Integrated lead audit rehearsal

ISO 14064-1:2018 Final report corrective action and follow up

ISO 14064-1:2018 Lead Auditor final knowledge examination

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