54 Climate Policy and Environmental Management Course Programs

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.

Learn about the basic necessities of life, environmental sustainability, and sustainable and non-sustainable materials.

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.

In this free online course learn about waste and productivity from environmental and lean perspectives.

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.

In this free online ISO 14001 course, you'll learn about the Environmental Management Systems (EMS) standard.

AGROECOLOGY 27 intends to introduce students to the complex and multifaceted world of agroecology through a transdisciplinary approach, enabling them to acquire basic knowledge and awareness of the importance of the interactions between agro-environmental and socio-economic components.

The existing relationship of Urban Green Solutions in training and employment becomes evident when addressing the development of vocational maturity, as well as its various components: skills to choose, obtain and maintain employment, through learning and development of transversal skills, as well as the professional development of university students and graduates through specific vocational training, developed from a comprehensive perspective that extends to their follow-up in job insertion, as it is a fundamental factor that improves the chances of academic and employment success of people with disabilities.

This program offers a full semester (30 ECTS credits) taught in English.

Courses in Environment and Sustainability at Sewanee, you'll be prepared to address complex environmental issues from a variety of perspectives. Your understanding today will prepare you to protect tomorrow. Because all environmental systems are connected, environmental issues cannot be studied in isolation. Policy, science, and economics are all involved.

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.

The Hixon Center will be primarily responsible for the advising of the joint majors and will be developing new courses, including a four-course series: Climate Dynamics, Climate Impacts, Climate Interventions and Climate Contexts. The Climate Contexts requirement is fulfilled through HSA coursework, including newly funded courses in religion and climate, anthropology and climate, and human geography and climate.

A lack of interest in or understanding of the importance of sustainability in modern construction and infrastructure development is a recipe for career failure. The same might soon be said about lack of understanding of the full range of openBIM technologies. The BIM for Environment Sustainability Assessment course will ensure that learners are never labelled in either of the above categories.

"Climate Crisis And Us: Creating A Better Future in Selkirk College" is a dynamic initiative aimed at tackling the urgent challenges posed by climate change through education, innovation, and community engagement.

Interpret requirements of an organisational environmental management plan and effectively implement it with this short course. This applies to individuals who are responsible for sustainability, either as their primary duty or as a part of a work role. This course is delivered online so you can study anywhere and anytime. You will be presented with hypothetical and real-world case studies, with which you will work on applying your knowledge learned about Building an Environmental Management Plan.