Food & Hospitality

Editable slides throughout the training allow you to tailor sections to your organisation and location whilst optional slides allow you to build a course which focuses on the area’s most appropriate to your business.

For organisations who want a highly bespoke course, we suggest you use the Shareable Food Course as a baseline of materials which you can then adapt, customise and resubmit to the Project for Criteria Checking.

The Carbon Literacy Shareable Food Course comes in four modules with everything you need to deliver a day’s worth of interactive training. The four modules can be delivered as a whole or be broken up into segments and delivered over several weeks, face to face or remotely via Teams or Zoom.

Carbon Literacy encourages discussion and the development of collaborative cross-team solutions, so in-house training using peer-to-peer delivery is our model of choice.

The process to become an in-house trainer simply requires you to be Carbon Literate yourself (ie. attend a Carbon Literacy course). From here, you can choose to become an accredited Trainer with the support of our Trainer team. If you would prefer to have external support for course delivery, you can hire a Carbon Literacy Trainer from our Trainer Directory.

Training can be delivered in one single full day, two half days, or even multiple sessions at a few hours each. As long as the training totals a day’s worth of learning, the precise format can be discussed with our Criteria Checking team.

Module 1 – Nature, Climate and Society

The Carbon Literacy Shareable Food Course looks at the broader sustainability picture of the food system using the Planetary Boundaries model. Climate change impacts and solutions are explored alongside areas such as biodiversity loss and land-use change.

Module 2 – The Power of Personal Change

A short section on personal carbon footprints allows employees to understand their opportunities to make sustainable choices, see how this relates to healthy diets, and then extend this awareness to discussions and collaboration around organisational goals.

Module 3 – Farming for our Future

Module 3 looks at agricultural practices. For many in the food and hospitality sector, there has been a tendency to focus on reducing emissions in their own operations, covering scopes 1 and 2. Whilst this reduction is an essential part of a comprehensive net-zero plan, when we look at the full footprint of an organisation, land use and on-farm emissions represent the most significant opportunity for companies to play their part in reaching net zero.

Module 4 – the Environment is our Business

Module 4 looks at key business themes from the Science Based Targets Initiative, to emissions scopes and gives employees the opportunity to select, discuss and brainstorm ideas around the organisation’s carbon hotspots.

The colour themes on the slides can be adapted to fit your organisational branding and you can include your own organisational logo. We do however ask that you keep the Carbon Literacy Logo in place, ensuring there is 25% spacing around the logo at all times.

Yes! Many employees (particularly younger employees) now want to work for employers who take sustainability action seriously, and Carbon Literacy training can help with both staff recruitment and retention.

Training staff with Carbon Literacy is a form of professional development, helping to engage, empower, and provide all members of the team with the agency and confidence to have a say in how your business can take meaningful climate action.

Educated employees become advocates for genuine engagement and action towards tangible net-zero goals. A study by Harvard Business Review found that companies with well-implemented sustainability education programs experienced a 50% reduction in environmental incidents and a 25% improvement in overall performance.

The price of the Shareable Food Course is dependent on your organisational turnover. To find out what price bracket your organisation falls under, view our Food Sector Price Matrix.