Pressure to act on climate comes from several directions at once: investors and lenders seeking disclosure, regulators introducing reporting rules, donors funding resilience programmes and customers asking about the footprint of what they buy. At the same time, droughts, floods and heat are raising operating costs for farms, utilities, cities and businesses across Africa. Many organisations want to respond but lack the technical basis to measure, prioritise and defend their decisions.

Practical Climate Action, Adaptation & Carbon Accounting Training Course provides that basis. It starts with climate science essentials and the policy landscape, including the Paris Agreement and nationally determined contributions. Participants then learn carbon accounting step by step, move to climate risk and vulnerability assessment, and explore adaptation planning, mitigation options, target setting and offsetting. The final sessions cover financing, monitoring, verification and public reporting.

Spreadsheet exercises, simplified data sets and group planning tasks keep the content grounded. Participants build an emissions estimate and a prioritised action plan based on their own organisation or project, which they can present internally after the course.

On completion, participants will be able to:

• Explain the drivers and local impacts of climate change and the international policy framework.
• Define organisational and operational boundaries for a greenhouse gas inventory.
• Calculate Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions using activity data and emission factors.
• Carry out a climate hazard, exposure and vulnerability assessment.
• Identify and prioritise adaptation measures using cost-benefit and multi-criteria analysis.
• Evaluate mitigation options including efficiency, renewable energy and nature-based solutions.
• Set reduction targets and describe the strengths and limits of carbon offsets.
• Prepare climate action reports and funding proposals with sound evidence.

The course is intended for practitioners who need to measure, plan or report on climate action, such as:

• Sustainability and ESG officers
• Environmental and HSE managers
• Climate change focal points in ministries and counties
• Programme managers in resilience, agriculture and water projects
• Urban and regional planners
• Corporate finance, risk and reporting staff
• NGO and community development staff
• Energy efficiency and facilities managers
• Consultants preparing climate funding proposals

Participants complete the course holding:

• A basic greenhouse gas inventory worksheet populated with their own data.
• A climate risk register with likelihood, impact and response notes.
• A shortlist of adaptation and mitigation actions ranked against clear criteria.
• A set of target options with rationale and limits.
• An outline of a climate finance proposal or disclosure statement.
• A monitoring checklist for tracking progress each year.

The programme balances technical explanation with applied tasks:

• Spreadsheet-based emissions calculations using simplified data sets
• Group risk assessments built on sector examples from Africa
• Short expert presentations on standards and policy developments
• Prioritisation games for comparing adaptation options
• Individual coaching on the action plan each participant brings

Participants who attend every session and complete the calculation and planning exercises are issued with a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.