Climate Change: Solutions Course - University of Exeter
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Key Information
Campus location
Online United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
Distance learning
Duration
4 weeks
Pace
Part time
Tuition fees
USD 59 *
Application deadline
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Introduction
Explore the potential solutions to climate change and how they relate to the UN's sustainable development goals.
Discover solutions to climate change
Man-made climate change is one of the biggest threats to the world. The effects are already being seen through receding glaciers, ocean acidification, and an increasingly vulnerable food supply. It’s vital we work to find solutions to climate change.
In this course, you will explore solutions to this global challenge, including mitigation, adaptation, and geo-engineering, which can help avoid the most dangerous climate changes and increase the resilience of societies and ecosystems to climate changes that cannot be avoided.
Syllabus
- Week 1: Climate Action
- Week 2: Life on land
- Week 3: Life below water
- Week 4: Sustainable cities and communities
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and learn at your own pace. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
- Available now
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:
- Describe the sustainable development goals and their links to climate change.
- Explore responses to climate change: mitigation, adaptation, and geoengineering.
- Identify methods of making agriculture more sustainable and explore the viability of these methods.
- Debate the viability of solutions that help strengthen the terrestrial biosphere carbon sink.
- Explain possible solutions to reducing ocean acidification.
- Discuss methods and policies being implemented to reduce plastic in oceans.
- Describe how buildings and cities can be designed to be more sustainable.
- Apply the theme of ‘sustainable communities’ to the developing world.
Who is the course for?
You don’t need any prior knowledge of climate change, just an interest in science, nature, and the environment. However, it might be useful to have completed the sister course to this one: Climate Change: The Science.
Who will you learn with?
| Tim Lenton Professor Tim Lenton is Chair in Climate Change/Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on understanding the behaviour of the Earth as a whole system. | Damien Mansell Senior Lecturer at The University of Exeter specialising in Glaciology, GIS and Remote Sensing. Educator on Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions. | Liam Taylor PhD student researching the impacts of climate change on our world. Course producer for University of Exeter Global Systems Institute. |
Who developed the course?
University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a Russell Group university. It combines world-class research with very high levels of student satisfaction.
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