9 Climate Change Course Programs

Gain insights into the organisational risks and opportunities posed by climate change, and learn to lead a transition to net-zero emissions, and rewire your business model for long-term value and resilience. As public concern over sustainability challenges and ESG integration intensifies and climate-related organizational risks escalate, the ability to build more resilient business models that thrive in a net-zero economy has fast become a strategic imperative. The Business and Climate Change: Towards Net Zero Emissions online short course from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) provides a comprehensive understanding of how to mitigate the business risks of climate change and oversee a transition to net-zero emissions for long-term resilience and overall value. Over eight weeks online, you’ll explore real-world examples of successful low carbon initiatives and discover how to utilize innovation to build a resilient, profitable business model for the future, stimulating a ‘triple bottom line’ of people, profit, and the planet. On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with a practical action plan to transition to net-zero emissions and the ability to lead change within your organization and beyond.

Global warming can enhance local extreme weather conditions, which in turn can affect the frequency of geohazards such as landslides, avalanches and flooding. This course provides you with a broad understanding of the interaction between atmospheric and Earth's surface processes that control the occurrence of potentially catastrophic geohazardous events.

In ECLIRE - The Ethics of Climate Change: Reshaping Responsibilities for Present and Future Generations the seasonal school aims to train participants on the ethics of climate change through a triple perspective: individual, global and intergenerational. It will also do so by opening up to disciplines beyond political and moral philosophy, such as political science, metaphysics, sociology and economics.

In WAT-CHANGE - Water-Related Ecosystem Services for Adapting Societies to Climate Change Seasonal School aims at introducing the participants to the new growing area of solutions provided by water-related ecosystem services. In particular, we will deal with nature-based solutions for water supply, treatment of polluted water, and flood risk mitigation such as managed aquifer recharge, river restoration, constructed wetlands, sustainable drainage systems, and remediation of contaminated sites using phytoremediation techniques.

The Environmental Education and Climate Change course is located in the third semester and its purposes are: To provide relevant information that allows making conscious and reasoned decisions regarding the relationship between human beings and the environment. Promote a less consumerist vision that allows professional development associated with the teaching work of normal students. Strengthen the capacity of future teachers to recognize themselves as part of the environmental problem and the process for its transformation and solution through environmental education.

Explore the potential solutions to climate change and how they relate to the UN's sustainable development goals.

Learn about the science of climate change, the risks it poses and how human activity is changing our world.

Climate, Health and Cities is a self-paced online course exploring the connections between climate change, the built environment, and human health. During the course, you will gain an understanding of the ongoing changes in climate and their impacts on our cities and health. Not only will you learn about these critical topics, but the course also challenges you to reflect on how to reduce these harmful climate impacts and support the well-being of all life on this planet.

The Berkeley International Study Program (BISP) is a unique study-abroad opportunity at the top-ranked University of California, Berkeley. BISP students come from a variety of academic backgrounds, spending one or two semesters taking excellent and innovative courses on a space-availability basis. We offer a wide range of classes, cross-cultural events and activities, and advising services for visiting international and domestic students in a vibrant multicultural learning environment.