The Handbook of Carbon Management

Winner of the 2024 Business Book Awards (Change & Sustainability category)

Winner of the Bronze Axiom Business Book Award 2024 in the Philanthropy / Non Profit / Sustainability category.

Every manager and every employee in every function can embed climate solutions and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This book, written by experts in the field of sustainability in business, shows you how.

The climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges we face today, and it affects all aspects of business and society. Consequently, everyone needs to know the best high-impact climate solutions that can be embedded into their organisational area. In this book you will find ideas for your team, your department and your organisation to make this a reality. We provide you with implementation plans and inspiring case studies, with practical and helpful tools that will help you to scale up climate solutions effectively and efficiently. If you are an owner of a company or an executive in any organisation, you will benefit from this step-by-step guide on how to set up your own greenhouse gas management plan, how to set targets and how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of your whole organisation. We explain key terms such as Net Zero, Carbon Neutral, carbon emissions equivalents and the three scopes. In order to halve our emissions worldwide by 2030 to achieve Net Zero by 2050, individual actions on a large scale are required, but also systemic changes. We look at the bigger picture in this book and also how you could effect change.

This is the first book to offer an easy-to-implement approach to decarbonise organisations and transform societies, and is appropriate for managers at any level. This book can also be used in business schools to inspire future managers and business leaders. Last, but not least, everyone can find ideas here that they can implement in their personal lives – let’s scale up together!

Petra Molthan-Hill, PhD is Professor of Sustainable Management and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK and Co-Chair of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Working Group on Climate Change and Environment. She is an international multi-award-winning expert for Climate Change Mitigation Education, Greenhouse Gas Management and ESD. Molthan-Hill leads the ‘Climate Literacy Training for Educators, Communities, Organisations and Students’ (CLT-ECOS) distributed worldwide. She is the editor of The Business Student’s Guide to Sustainable Management and of Storytelling for Sustainability in Higher Education: An Educator's Handbook and led the Green Academy at NTU from 2013–2021.

Fiona Winfield is the School Employability Manager at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, and is a Principal Lecturer and a Senior Fellow HEA. Before moving into academia, she spent a decade in sales and marketing in the construction industry. She is involved with Young Enterprise and Enactus, is a Green Gown Award winner (for linking Employability to Sustainability) and a member of the Chartered Management Institute. At NTU, she is part of the Sustainable Development Academic Forum and the Sustainability task group within Employability.

Richard Howarth is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. He is Assistant Course Leader for BA (Hons) Marketing and works closely with organisations and professional bodies (such as the CIM and MRS) to enhance the employability and workplace impacts of students and graduates. He is the Sustainability Coordinator for the Marketing Department. His research interests are related to marketer competences, education for sustainable development, responsible marketer behaviour, sustainability and employability and related learning and teaching interventions.

Muhammad Mazhar is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainability at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. He is also the Sustainability Coordinator of the Business School, aiming to help embed sustainability in teaching, research, operational and partnership activities. By background, he is a Civil Engineer with a B.E. in Civil Engineering and MSc. in Construction Management. He received a PhD in Sustainability and Carbon Management. His interest is in sustainability, energy and carbon management, education for sustainable development and low-carbon smart cities.