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Investments in training by companies increase their added value: by increasing the retention rate of employees, saving money by avoiding improving efficiency and effectiveness, boosting business performance and gaining a competitive edge. With new legislation constantly being developed, companies and government organizations affected by it must make sure that their employees have sufficient knowledge and capacity to comply with the relevant regulation, while maintaining the highest standards of quality, rigour and efficiency. Capacity building can help bring (or keep) individuals, organizations and even countries up to speed, by training staff, enhancing procedures, providing manuals and supporting documentation – even setting up new departments or organizations.

Ecofys organizes workshops and courses around the world for companies, NGOs and government organizations in energy demand, energy supply and climate change. We combine in-house expert knowledge in these areas, plus insights into both decision-making and practical implementation with our process management skills in order to meet our clients’ training and capacity building needs. Our service provides the most efficient, effective combination of transfer of know-how and experience, client participation and embedding the new capacity and skills in the organization.

References:

• GHG Monitoring, Reporting and Verification training workshops – for large industrial companies such as Endesa, verifying and accrediting entities (AENOR, Generalitat de Catalunya) and Member states/regions
• Establishing Centres of Excellence for CDM in South Africa and India – Government Opportunities Fund – UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• BASIC: Capacity building project on the post 2012 negotiations with China, Brazil, India und South Africa – European Commission. For more information, click here.
• Supporting the Romanian Government in the implementation of the EU ETS, including training staff, developing the NAP and setting up a monitoring and reporting infrastructure - EVD
• In-house capacity building, CDM project design, evaluation and verification – the European Investment Bank
• Developing and operating the Ecofys Academy – a nine-month business course on energy and climate protection – offered together the University of Poznan, Poland
• Training course on EU and Member State renewable energy policies – an international project developer
• Secondment to the UK Climate Change Projects Office – capacity building with UK industry on JI/CDM project development – UK DTI