Capacity-building Portal resources on Climate action

 

Online Course

From Climate Science to Action

Short info: This action-oriented MOOC gives you the opportunity to learn about regional climate change impacts and sector-specific strategies to increase resilience and move towards a low-carbon future. You will have the opportunity to explore these issues in depth and tailor your learning experience for one or more of the following regions:

•  Latin America and Caribbean
•  Sub-Saharan Africa
•  Middle East and North Africa
•  Eastern Europe and Central Asia
•  East Asia and Pacific
•  South Asia
Providing Institution: World Bank Group
Region: Global
Type of Activities: Online Course
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Act on Climate: Steps to Individual, Community, and Political Action

Short info: After taking part in this course, you will be able to:
1) Identify individual, community, and political actions you can engage in to effectively address and respond to climate change.
2) Describe how insights from the social sciences can be employed to create change at the individual, community, and political levels.
3) Feel empowered to continue to influence how you, your community, and political leaders address and respond to climate change.
Providing Institution: University of Michigan
Region: Global
Type of Activities: Online Course
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Global Environmental Management

Short info:Learn about the best environmental technologies for a sustainable development and how they are managed in various settings around the world. This course gives you an opportunity to learn about global trends that influence our environment and the living conditions and how different management systems and approaches that are used around the world to manage the environment. This includes current environmental technologies built for the environment and technologies for sustainable soil management, groundwater protection methods and integrated Water resources management.
Providing Institution: Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Region: Global
Type of Activities: Online Course
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Climate Information and Services

Short info: This tutorial introduces climate information and services and their application in decision-making. It has been developed by UNITAR in collaboration with UNECA’s African Climate Policy Center (ACPC) and the Pan-Africa component of the Weather Information Services for Africa (WISER) program, kindly supported by UK’s Department for International Development (DfID).
Providing Institution: UNCC: e learns
Region: Global

Type of Activities: Online Course
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Climate Change from Learning to Action

Short info: Think, Learn, Act Climate!

The course helps you understand what climate change is, how it affects you and others, and what can be done to address it. 
Providing Institution: UNCC: e learns
Region: Global
Type of Activities: Online Course
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