Climate Smart training is a business strategy.
A really good one.

What is Climate Smart Certification?

Climate Smart Certification is an award-winning training program that helps small and medium businesses in every industry create a greenhouse gas inventory, then devise a GHG emissions reduction plan to take action and make change.

Over the course of 4 to 6 months, we will guide you from “How do we start?” to “Wow, we have a solid plan, real data, and support to achieve our carbon goals!”

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Climate Smart helped us to identify the waste and inefficiencies within our business in terms of energy and also materials. This helped build an optimal implementation plan that is practical yet still leaves room for us to be aspirational.

Melissa Radu Sustainability Manager, Edmonton Convention Centre

Benefits

Climate Smart Certification is good for business

Cut costs

Energy, fuel, and waste savings can have big financial impact. In a good way. Check out the numbers.
Cut carbon

Be the company that makes the effort to emit less bad stuff. See the data for yourself.
Future-proof your business

Adapt to changing tides, mitigate risk and cultivate positive environmental outcomes.
Build in-house skills and cultivate leaders

Give your team the tools to steer environmental and community initiatives long into the future.
Make it a community effort

Work alongside other Climate Smart-certified businesses to tackle ambitious climate change targets.
Measure what matters

Attain carbon footprint metrics for reports, RFPs, and bids, plus solid numbers for complementary assessments like BCorp, Green Marine, and ISO.

Join us for our next Climate Smart Training Series

Due to COVID-19, all sessions are in a live online format.

Live Online from anywhere in North America

Session 1: Jan 26, 2021: 08:30 - 11:00 PST
Session 2: Mar 02, 2021: 08:30 - 10:30 PST
Session 3: Mar 16, 2021: 08:30 - 10:30 PDT
Session 4: Apr 13, 2021: 08:30 - 10:30 PDT

Open to businesses across Canada and the U.S.
Participants attend all sessions within a series
All sessions are 8:30am - 11:00am, Pacific time
Expertly facilitated by Climate Smart trainers using zoom
For newly participating and renewing Climate Smart businesses

See all upcoming training series

Climate Smart Program Fees

Tier 1:

Businesses with 1–5 employees

+6 hours of one-on-one support with a Climate Smart Advisor*

Annual Climate Smart certification fee: $2250
Tier 2:

Businesses with 6-25 employees

+7 hours of one-on-one support with a Climate Smart Advisor*

Annual Climate Smart certification fee: $2750
Tier 3:

Businesses with 26-75 employees

+8 hours of one-on-one support with a Climate Smart Advisor*

Annual Climate Smart certification fee: $3500
Tier 4:

Businesses with 76-150 employees

+9 hours of one-on-one support with a Climate Smart Advisor*

Annual Climate Smart certification fee: $4500
Tier 5:

Businesses with 151-300** employees

+10 hours of one-on-one support with a Climate Smart Advisor*

Annual Climate Smart certification fee: $5500

* Should a business require additional advising hours for research, data entry or other tailored support, we bill at $150 an hour and $500 for any additional staff that attend that training sessions.
** If you have more than 300 employees, contact us for a custom quote.

Host partner affiliations & discounts

Receive support to reduce your carbon footprint

Up to 50% off Climate Smart program (up to a max. $3000/yr) for businesses with 75 employees or less and non-profits (of any size) in Edmonton.
$1,000 off Climate Smart program for businesses located in City of North Vancouver.
$1,000 off Climate Smart program for businesses across Canada.
50% off Climate Smart program for Port of Vancouver tenants.
$1,000 off Climate Smart program for Vancity Credit Union member businesses.
100% off Climate Smart program for YVR tenants on Sea Island (first year certification only).
$1,000 off Climate Smart program for businesses in Manitoba.