ICARB is a forum for technical experts, academics, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss developing accurate carbon accounting tools. It aims to share challenges and solutions, and build capacity across Scottish sectors. ICARB holds annual conferences in Scotland on topics like metrics, methods, sectoral accounting, and city-level accounting. It also organizes workshops on building energy mitigation and storage. The most recent conference was in 2014 on energy accounting.

1. THE REMIT
ICARB - THE INITIATIVE FOR CARBON ACCOUNTING
Purpose: ICARB provides a space for technical experts, academics,
policy and decision makers and practitioners alike to:
• A Forum to discuss and agree and ways forward in the
development of Relevant, Complete, Consistent, Transparent and
Accurate accounting tools.
• To share technical challenges and solutions
• To be part of a capacity building process across Scottish sectors
and stakeholders in this emerging field.

3. WESTMINSTER / SCOTTISH CARBON COUNTING GROUP / ICARB
National & International Conferences
1ST Meeting 2005 – Oxford – with Seb Carney and Marieke van Staadten / ICLEI
1st Conference – 2008 - METRICS
Institution of Civil Engineers at 1 George Street, Westminster
2nd Conference 2008 - Scottish Parliament , Holyrood
METHODS
3rd Conference 2011- Edinburgh Conference Centre
CARBON ACCOUNTING LANDSCAPES IN SCOTLAND
4th Conference 2012 - Edinburgh Conference Centre
SECTORAL ACCOUNTING
5th Conference 2013 - Edinburgh Conference Centre,
ENERGY ACCOUNTING
6TH Conference 2014 – Edinburgh City Chambers
CITY AND COMMUNITY LEVEL ACCOUNTING

4. 2008 - 10 Carbon Accounting
Working Parties 2012
General
Depth – Methodological
parameters
1. Units and Metrics
2. Datasets
3. Boundaries
4. Factors
Sectorial
Vertical – Application levels
5. Vertical Scoping: Individual,
city, region, nation
Horizontal - Sectors
6. Buildings
7. ICT
8. Transport, Water, Waste
9. Food, Agriculture and Land
Use
10.Energy: oil and gas, coal,
nuclear, renewables,
demand
11.Materials

5. Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot Watt University 25th November 2011, 9.00am - 5.pm
Surveying the landscape and mapping the future of Carbon Accounting in Scotland

6. 2013 ICARB Workshops
Workshops on Built Environment Mitigation:
• Natural Ventilation
• Thermal Comfort & Behaviours
• Thermal Energy Storage / Mass
• Solar Buildings
2012 Annual Conference on Energy Accounting

7. 2011 ICARB Conference programme
2014:
Studies: Funded by the Michael Ventris Award, London.
Workshops: Funded by the Energy Technology Partnership,
ERDF, The Castansa Trust, Climate X Change
• Backcasting Scotland’s Energy Future 2030
http://icarb.org/2014/06/02/backcasting-summit/
• Energy Storgage workshop – 21st October 2014
http://icarb.org/energy-workshop/

8. 6th ICARB Conference 5th September 2014

9. For more information see
www.icarb.org + www.icarbconference.org
This years particularly wants to thank :
The Castansa Trust and Edinburgh City Council
And the speakers, facilitators, scribes and delegates and Edinburgh