Carbon Accounting Essentials

Welcome to Persefoni Academy, a climate-focused eLearning experience offered by the Financial Executives International (FEI), a leading association for financial executives, and powered by Persefoni, a leading climate disclosure and carbon management platform.

This module dives into the science behind climate change, greenhouse gases, and the greenhouse gas effect. We will cover how the effects of climate change are impacting people around the world and what businesses can do to reduce their emissions.

This module will help you gain an understanding of what carbon accounting is, and the role businesses play in today’s climate crisis.

This module will introduce you to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP), and provides the foundational knowledge to get started in these new and unchartered waters of quantifying GHG emissions.

Establishing inventory boundaries is a key component of creating an accurate GHG emissions footprint. This module dives into defining both organizational and operational boundaries.

In this module, you will learn how an organization’s emissions break down into scopes 1, 2, and 3 and start thinking about what emission sources might be relevant to your company.

In this module, we’ll cover the history of PCAF and its mission; the PCAF asset classes and principles; and why it’s so important for financial institutions to report their scope 3 financed emissions.