Carbon Literacy and ISEP

From Carbon Literacy to Carbon Leadership

We’ve partnered with the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP) to develop a range of pathways that help organisations and professionals build carbon knowledge and sustainability skills to deliver meaningful climate action.

A day’s worth of Carbon Literacy training provides every employee, whatever the industry, with the knowledge and motivation to start taking climate action wherever they are. ISEP membership provides professionals delivering this work on a daily basis with resources and opportunities to develop these skills and support others to do the same.

Together with ISEP, we’re committed to embedding sustainability skills across sectors, empowering professionals to not only reduce their own environmental impact but also influence positive change within their organisations, sectors, and communities, accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Find out how you can get involved below.

Building on your Carbon Literacy

You’re certified Carbon Literate and feeling energised to go beyond your pledged actions and build your skills. Great! Take the next step and subscribe to ISEP Essentials membership to access resources to continue your journey. Or join an ISEP training course to dig deeper into the specific sustainability topics that are relevant to you.

For a certified Carbon Literate citizen, progressing to an ISEP training course is the next step in professional development. Carbon Literacy establishes a strong base of climate awareness and responsibility, while ISEP courses help you to build technical, operational and strategic skills for practical application.

This progression enhances an individual’s ability to contribute to and lead organisational sustainability initiatives with confidence and credibility.

Adding value to ISEP members

If you’re already an ISEP member, Carbon Literacy training can help you build climate awareness and action in your organisation.

With many sustainability professionals working solo or separately from other teams, it can be difficult to carry out a sustainability strategy when your colleagues don’t know how to support it. Training your colleagues in Carbon Literacy brings everyone on board, empowering them to play their part in helping your organisation achieve its goals.

Find out how you can Get Started delivering Carbon Literacy.

Adding value to Carbon Literacy trainers

Your training is certified against the Carbon Literacy Standard, instilling confidence in your ability to educate and upskill learners in your industry on sustainability. Consider adding another badge of recognition to your services.

Add ISEP membership to your own professional credentials, or go a step further and consider becoming an ISEP Training Partner, adding ISEP training to your portfolio.

As a certified Carbon Literacy Trainer, you can become an ISEP Training Partner at a discounted rate.

Adding value to organisations

Carbon Literacy builds a strong foundation of climate knowledge across your workforce, delivering behaviour change through relevance and empowerment, and embedding the urgency of action. Carbon Literate Organisation accreditation supports an organisation to embed a low-carbon culture across its workforce through Carbon Literacy training, and evidence this in the clearest possible way.

ISEP courses build on this foundation, adding technical tools and strategic approaches to deliver measurable sustainability outcomes within an organisation. Explore ISEP courses and consider professionally graded membership for green teams and leadership. Or, consider ISEP Corporate Partnership, designed to drive organisation-wide transformation by equipping your teams with the confidence, capability and community they need to embed sustainability at every level – with bespoke guidance, tailored training and expert support designed around your strategic priorities.

Get Involved

Carbon Literacy and ISEP help organisations to embed sustainability at every level, boost staff knowledge, and demonstrate clear environmental leadership.

By combining measurable staff training with strategic guidance, this partnership ensures sustainability is embedded in both daily operations and organisational strategy – helping teams take meaningful action, increase knowledge, and showcase their commitment.