On-demand webinar · 7. Jul 2025

Higher Education: How to move on from spend-based carbon accounting

Are you using outdated carbon accounting methodology?

Join our experts from the Climate Strategy team, Johnny McCreesh and Dimitris Stoidis to discover why universities and colleges could have their carbon calculations all wrong.

What you’ll learn:

1) How a major UK university was over-estimating their carbon emissions

2) How to transition from the outdated HESCET Methodology

3) Why Normative is uniquely positioned to support the Higher Education sector

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Overestimating emissions is a risk

Previously, the HESCET method took an overly cautious approach to reporting.

This leads to risks for Higher Education:

Any future reduction claims will be masked by methodology improvements
It will be difficult to pinpoint the true impact of reductions initiatives
This leaves Higher Education open to claims of (unintentional) greenwashing

Program

Normative vs HESCET

Being able to rely on the accuracy of your carbon emissions calculations is critical to making better-informed decisions across your higher education organization. HESCET cannot provide the accuracy and transparency that the sector needs today – so how does Normative’s carbon accounting platform and team of Climate Strategy Advisors compare?

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