Climate-related losses now appear in insurance premiums, project budgets and loan conditions, while governments and funders ask organisations to report their emissions and show how they are adapting. Yet many institutions still handle climate as a communications topic rather than a risk to be assessed, owned and financed like any other.

The Risk Management for Climate Action, Adaptation & Carbon Accounting Training Course brings risk management discipline to climate work. It opens with climate science essentials and policy context, including the Paris Agreement and national commitments, then introduces risk assessment methods adapted to climate hazards: exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity and scenario analysis. Participants build risk registers, compare adaptation options and learn how to embed them in plans, budgets and project designs. The carbon accounting sessions teach organisational boundaries, data collection, emission factors and the compilation of an inventory across all three scopes, with quality assurance and recordkeeping. The final sessions turn to target setting, mitigation pathways, climate finance and credible reporting.

The course is practical and workshop based. Participants work with sample activity data and case organisations to produce a risk register, an adaptation shortlist and a draft inventory, leaving with tools they can adapt to their own institutions.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Distinguish physical and transition climate risks and the sectors they affect.
• Conduct a climate vulnerability and risk assessment using exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity.
• Build and maintain a climate risk register with ratings and owners.
• Prioritise adaptation options using cost-benefit and multi-criteria analysis.
• Compile a greenhouse gas inventory following the GHG Protocol.
• Select suitable emission factors and manage data quality.
• Set reduction targets and identify credible mitigation measures.
• Prepare climate risk and emissions disclosures for boards, funders and regulators.

The course is relevant to professionals who plan for, report on or finance climate action, including:

• Environment, sustainability and climate change officers
• Enterprise and operational risk managers
• Programme and project managers in NGOs and development agencies
• County and national government planners
• Agriculture, water and energy sector specialists
• Finance and investment officers assessing climate exposure
• Corporate reporting and ESG analysts
• Monitoring and evaluation staff in climate-related programmes

Participants leave the course with:

• A climate risk register template with scoring guidance.
• A shortlist of adaptation options with a prioritisation matrix.
• A draft greenhouse gas inventory built in a spreadsheet.
• A data collection checklist for Scope 1, 2 and 3 activities.
• An outline of emission reduction targets and actions.
• A reporting outline that links risk and emissions disclosures.

The programme blends risk management practice with hands-on calculation. Participants experience:

• Concise expert briefings on climate risk and carbon accounting methods
• Spreadsheet workshops building emission inventories from sample data
• Group risk assessment of case organisations in agriculture, energy and public services
• Facilitated debate on the choice between adaptation and mitigation priorities
• Presentation of a draft register and inventory for peer feedback

Vision Reach Global Consultancy issues a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion to participants who attend all five days and complete the assessment and accounting exercises.