982 Climate Policy and Environmental Management Degree Programs

Chart a new course forward for the planet. Climate change and environmental threats are reshaping our world, with profound consequences for economic well-being, migration, health, conflict, and environmental justice. This program’s human-focused approach emphasizes understanding the causes and effects of climate change and developing strategies to limit the impacts.

The Master’s in Sustainability Management is designed to train professionals capable of integrating sustainability into the strategy of public and private organizations. In a global context marked by environmental, social, and economic challenges — including climate change and growing demands for corporate social responsibility — this program offers comprehensive training in the tools, regulatory frameworks, and key trends that define sustainability in the 21st century.

This one-year, English-taught Master’s, offered in Leeuwarden, will help you become a change agent at the interface between social, technological, and ecological systems. With a focus on social science disciplines such as management, public policy, governance, and law, you will learn to tackle challenges in the field of energy, water, and environmental management. This Master’s covers themes like sustainable development, resilience, circular economy, social entrepreneurship, environmental quality, and technological innovation – from the perspective of both developed and developing countries.

This Climate Change: Environment, Science and Policy MSc is unique because it approaches the topic from both a science and policy perspective, which means you’ll learn more about applied physical science that's policy-relevant. It’s also the only MSc where you can choose to study climate change with a focus on science or policy - or you can opt for a more comprehensive understanding of both disciplines.

The MSc Global Environment and Sustainability programme offers students modules covering pressing global contemporary environmental problems including climate change and environmental hazards, global food systems and health, water and energy resources, waste and pollution and biodiversity, biosecurity and conservation.

The MSc Sustainability and Environmental Management (Online) equips learners to address global environmental challenges and lead sustainability initiatives across sectors. The programme builds a strong foundation in environmental science, sustainable development and organisational change.

This programme is aimed at talented graduates seeking to enhance their expertise and develop skills relevant to the fields of environmental policy, management, protection and advocacy.

DCU’s MSc in Climate Change: Policy, Media & Society is Ireland’s only programme focused on the social sciences and humanities aspects of climate change. Gain expertise in media, policy, law, governance, and politics, equipping you with the skills to address today’s environmental challenges from diverse perspectives.

This MSc Program Psychology and Environmental Sustainability is part of the response of Psychology to the climate emergency the world is experiencing today. In recent years Psychology scholars and their professional associations – for example, the American Psychological Association (APA) or the Portuguese Order of Psychologists (OPP) - began to mobilize to encourage academics to apply knowledge from all subdomains in Psychology toward understanding environment-related human attitudes and habits, and to foster pro-environmental behavior of both individuals and organizations.

This programme critically examines the theory, recent trends and developments related to urban climate change adaptation and mitigation and how they shape responses to the climate crisis. We move beyond siloed approaches by linking climate change directly to the sustainable management of urban water systems, the built environment, and resource flows.

Our MSc in Climate Change Science and Policy provides you with a solid grounding in climate change science, alongside a critical understanding of the context for action on climate change. The programme is designed for students with a background in science (through their previous undergraduate and/or work experience), and includes hands-on quantitative training with climate models and climate data.

The MSc in Climate Change, Adaptation and Policy prepares to make change, giving you the skills to keep pace with cutting-edge research, understand the policy and governance frameworks for climate change and sustainable futures, and implement evidence-based mitigation and adaptation strategies.

This program's general objective is to prepare middle managers with comprehensive and specific knowledge and practical skills, who, as specialists, are able to take responsibility and make strategic decisions to formulate and implement environmental management and environmental policy at the international level, considering the climate change and the European Green Deal.

Our Msc Green Economy, Sustainability and Climate Change Management is designed to provide a wide set of skills, knowledge and competencies that encompass a single discipline, to provide a clear understanding of such hot topics from a scientific, economic, societal, organisational and ethical perspective.

International Master's Programme in Environment, Sustainability and Global Development combines natural and social sciences, focusing on multidisciplinary knowledge and skills required to analyse and address some of the world’s most challenging environmental and sustainability problems.

This course provides students with in-depth knowledge in the fields of ecotoxicology and sustainability and environmental management analyzes. The sustainability of human actions can be assessed from two points of view: the first that goes in the direction of making the resources used increasingly renewable, the second that aims at minimizing the effects of human actions on the environment.

If you want to work towards finding solutions for societal problems related to natural resource depletion and environmental change, then this is the Master’s program for you. The Environment and Resource Management (ERM) Master’s trains you to become part of the next generation of environmental leaders who work on the sustainability challenges of our time. From the role of climate change in migration to the impact of food supply on the environment to analyzing the transition to sustainable energy systems. You will start on the path to becoming an interdisciplinary environmental expert who is skilled in developing effective solutions for a more sustainable world.

The MSc Global Energy and Climate Policy degree programme addresses important issues of our time. The use of energy – electricity generation, transportation, heating/cooling and industrial consumption – is the most important driver of climate change by far. Effectively addressing this urgent global challenge therefore requires transformational changes in the ways we produce, consume and govern energy.