(BRAIN) — Eight international cycling companies — Accell, Canyon, Quality Bicycle Products, Rose, Schindelhauer, Schwalbe, Scott, and Trek — have launched an online training course aimed at educating the industry to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions across global supply chains.
The online training is tailored to suppliers of cycling hard goods and is now available in English, with versions in Mandarin and Vietnamese launching next month. The free training is aimed at top management and technical mid-managers.
This initiative is co-facilitated by Shift Cycling Culture (a Dutch nonprofit) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ, a German development agency). The training was developed with support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
According to Shift Cycling Culture, the majority of a cycling company's environmental footprint typically stems from its supply chain, with up to 95% of carbon emissions occurring during the extraction, sourcing, and production of bicycle materials and components.
The training provides foundational knowledge on measuring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions, how to set reduction targets and monitor progress, as well as relevant case studies of potential solutions to drive down emissions.
This course is open to the entire cycling industry. It is available as a free online self-paced course and as a tutor-guided option for groups. More information and access to the course can be found on shiftcyclingculture.com.
