Climate Change: Solutions Course

Climate Change: Solutions

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

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.