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Carbon Tax, Emissions Reporting and Decarbonisation Planning

South Africa's carbon tax turns emissions into a line on the income statement. The work here covers building a defensible greenhouse gas inventory, understanding allowances and offsets, and writing a reduction plan that finance will actually fund in the current budget cycle.

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What you will be able to do

  • Set organisational and operational boundaries for a greenhouse gas inventory that will withstand scrutiny.
  • Distinguish scope one, scope two and material scope three emissions using site level activity data.
  • Apply emission factors correctly to fuel, electricity, process and fugitive sources.
  • Explain how carbon tax liability is calculated and where allowances and offsets reduce it.
  • Identify abatement projects and rank them by cost per tonne avoided.
  • Assemble a reduction roadmap with baselines, targets, owners and reporting checkpoints.

Course outline

  1. 01Greenhouse gas accounting principles and inventory boundaries
  2. 02Collecting and verifying activity data on site
  3. 03Emission factors, calculation methods and common errors
  4. 04How carbon tax liability, allowances and offsets work
  5. 05Reporting obligations and internal assurance
  6. 06Building an abatement cost curve
  7. 07Turning targets into a funded reduction plan

Who should attend

Sustainability managers, SHEQ managers, environmental officers, energy managers and finance staff who prepare or sign off emissions and carbon tax submissions. Suitable for mining, manufacturing, agriculture, property and transport organisations.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
28 to 30 Sep 2026Durban3R13,000Closed
29 Sep to 1 Oct 2026Pretoria3R13,000Register
30 Sep to 2 Oct 2026Windhoek3US$1,500Register
5 to 7 Oct 2026Gaborone3US$1,500Register
6 to 8 Oct 2026Maseru3US$1,500Register
7 to 9 Oct 2026Mbabane3US$1,500Register
12 to 14 Oct 2026Lusaka3US$1,500Register
13 to 15 Oct 2026Harare3US$1,500Register
14 to 16 Oct 2026Lilongwe3US$1,500Register
19 to 21 Oct 2026Blantyre3US$1,500Register
20 to 22 Oct 2026Mozambique3US$1,500Register
21 to 23 Oct 2026Nairobi3US$1,500Register
26 to 28 Oct 2026Dar es Salaam3US$1,500Register
27 to 29 Oct 2026Kigali3US$1,500Register
28 to 30 Oct 2026Kampala3US$1,500Register
2 to 4 Nov 2026Accra3US$1,500Register
3 to 5 Nov 2026Lagos3US$1,500Register
4 to 6 Nov 2026Cairo3US$1,500Register
9 to 11 Nov 2026Mauritius3US$1,500Register
10 to 12 Nov 2026Dubai3US$1,500Register
11 to 13 Nov 2026Online3US$900Register
8 to 10 Dec 2026Johannesburg3R13,000Register
9 to 11 Dec 2026Cape Town3R13,000Register

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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