Welcome Presentation | Sue Roaf

1. THE REMIT
ICARB - THE INITIATIVE FOR CARBON ACCOUNTING
Purpose: ICARB provides a space for technical experts, academics,
policy and decision makers and practitioners alike to:
• A Forum to discuss and agree and ways forward in the
development of Relevant, Complete, Consistent, Transparent and
Accurate accounting tools.
• To share technical challenges and solutions
• To be part of a capacity building process across Scottish sectors
and stakeholders in this emerging field.

3. WESTMINSTER / SCOTTISH CARBON COUNTING GROUP / ICARB
National & International Conferences
1ST Meeting 2005 – Oxford – with Seb Carney and Marieke van Staadten / ICLEI
1st Conference – 2008 - METRICS
Institution of Civil Engineers at 1 George Street, Westminster
2nd Conference 2008 - Scottish Parliament , Holyrood
METHODS
3rd Conference 2011- Edinburgh Conference Centre
CARBON ACCOUNTING LANDSCAPES IN SCOTLAND
4th Conference 2012 - Edinburgh Conference Centre
SECTORAL ACCOUNTING
5th Conference 2013 - Edinburgh Conference Centre,
ENERGY ACCOUNTING
6TH Conference 2014 – Edinburgh City Chambers
CITY AND COMMUNITY LEVEL ACCOUNTING

4. 2008 - 10 Carbon Accounting
Working Parties 2012
General
Depth – Methodological
parameters
1. Units and Metrics
2. Datasets
3. Boundaries
4. Factors
Sectorial
Vertical – Application levels
5. Vertical Scoping: Individual,
city, region, nation
Horizontal - Sectors
6. Buildings
7. ICT
8. Transport, Water, Waste
9. Food, Agriculture and Land
Use
10.Energy: oil and gas, coal,
nuclear, renewables,
demand
11.Materials

5. Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot Watt University 25th November 2011, 9.00am - 5.pm
Surveying the landscape and mapping the future of Carbon Accounting in Scotland

6. 2013 ICARB Workshops
Workshops on Built Environment Mitigation:
• Natural Ventilation
• Thermal Comfort & Behaviours
• Thermal Energy Storage / Mass
• Solar Buildings
2012 Annual Conference on Energy Accounting

7. 2011 ICARB Conference programme
2014:
Studies: Funded by the Michael Ventris Award, London.
Workshops: Funded by the Energy Technology Partnership,
ERDF, The Castansa Trust, Climate X Change
• Backcasting Scotland’s Energy Future 2030
http://icarb.org/2014/06/02/backcasting-summit/
• Energy Storgage workshop – 21st October 2014
http://icarb.org/energy-workshop/

8. 6th ICARB Conference 5th September 2014

9. For more information see
www.icarb.org + www.icarbconference.org
This years particularly wants to thank :
The Castansa Trust and Edinburgh City Council
And the speakers, facilitators, scribes and delegates and Edinburgh