Thu 27 August 2026 Certified Carbon Literacy® training for Stirling SMEs
About this Event
Your business can be part of Stirling Council and Scotland’s Net Zero journey — starting with one day’s FREE training.
You don’t need to have it all figured out. You need one day, a plan, and the will to act.
● Format: one full day, in person, highly interactive.
● Accreditation: Carbon Literate, assessed by The Carbon Literacy Project on submission of your action plan.
● Eligibility: SMEs within the Stirling Council area.
● Places: limited — small cohort. Early booking recommended.
Take your first real step toward Net Zero
Yes, if you’re an owner, manager, or member of staff at a small or medium-sized business in the Stirling Council area and any of this sounds familiar:
● Energy and material costs are climbing, and you want to get ahead of them.
● You’re being asked about carbon in tenders and B2B enquiries — and you’re not sure how to answer.
● You want to attract and keep staff who care about the future.
● You’d like to position your business for green loans and finance.
● Customers or employees are asking what you’re doing for the environment.
● Growing compliance requirements are on your radar.
Good to know
A highly interactive day built around four practical modules, with a carbon-data game and real SME case studies:
1. Climate Science Fundamentals — the greenhouse effect and carbon cycle, in clear language.
2. Business Impact and Risk — how climate change hits your costs, supply chain, and customers.
3. Carbon Footprint Essentials — measuring your emissions across Scopes 1, 2, and 3.
4. Action Planning — building the pledges and plan that earn your certification and cut real carbon.
Is this for you?
● A clear picture of your business’s carbon footprint across Scopes 1, 2, and 3.
● Your own action plan, and the foundations of a Carbon Reduction Plan you can use in tenders and share with clients, funders, and suppliers.
● Certified Carbon Literate status — a credible, recognised mark that your business is serious about a low-carbon future.
● Plain-English confidence with terms like “Scope 3,” “GHG Protocol,” and “Net Zero” — no jargon, no intimidation.
● Practical resilience against rising energy costs, extreme weather, and supply-chain shocks.
What the day covers
Here’s the honest version of how a single day turns into real carbon reductions — not vague good intentions, but measurable change.
You learn to measure. You can’t cut what you can’t see. On the day you’ll learn to measure your own footprint across Scopes 1, 2, and 3, and pinpoint where your biggest emissions really come from. That turns “we should do something” into “here’s exactly where to start.”
You make a commitment that counts. This is what makes the day different from a webinar you forget by Friday. Your Carbon Literacy certification isn’t awarded for turning up — it’s awarded when you submit an action plan of real carbon-reduction pledges, which is assessed by The Carbon Literacy Project. You leave committed to specific actions, not just aware of the problem. Your trainer supports you through the plan on the day.
Your actions ripple outward. When you act on your plan — cutting energy use and waste, choosing lower-carbon suppliers, building carbon questions into your own tenders — you don’t only reduce your own emissions, you push change out into your supply chain and influence your staff and customers too. One Carbon Literate business moves far more carbon than its own footprint.
It all adds up. Every certified SME adds measurable decarbonisation to the Stirling area and feeds directly into Scotland’s 2045 target. You become part of a movement of over 165,000 people from more than 14,500 organisations worldwide who are already Certified Carbon Literate — and who are helping close the “Net Zero awareness gap” that’s holding progress back.
What you’ll walk away with
Stirling Council is committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions for the entire Stirling Council area by 2045, aligning with broader Scottish climate targets. Additionally, the local authority has set an accelerated goal to make Stirling Council's own internal operations carbon neutral by 2035.
Net Zero can feel like something that happens somewhere else: government targets, big corporates, distant deadlines. It isn’t. Scotland’s legal commitment to reach Net Zero by 2045 will be met — or missed — largely on the strength of what over the 380,000 small and medium-sized businesses do.
This one-day course is where your business steps in. By the end of it you won’t just understand the climate challenge — you’ll leave with a concrete, plan of action that makes your business part of the solution.
How your one day moves the needle
Schedule
🕑: 08:30 AM
Arrival
🕑: 09:00 AM
Housekeeping course outline
🕑: 09:10 AM
Climate change -The Facts
🕑: 10:25 AM
Break - Refreshments
🕑: 10:35 AM
Impacts
🕑: 11:45 AM
Break
🕑: 11:55 AM
Why do SMEs need to act?
🕑: 12:45 PM
Lunch (provided)
🕑: 01:15 PM
Carbon footprint/ Pathway to Net Zero
🕑: 02:20 PM
Break
🕑: 02:20 PM
Carbon footprint/ Pathway to Net Zero
🕑: 02:30 PM
How to build back better?
🕑: 03:25 PM
Break - Refreshments
🕑: 03:35 PM
Carbon Literacy Action Plan
🕑: 05:00 PM
End
Where is it happening?
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