- Platform
- FutureLearn
- Provider
- University of Exeter
- Effort
- 3 hours/week
- Length
- 4 weeks
- Language
- English
- Credentials
- Paid Certificate Available
- Course Link
Overview
Discover solutions to climate change
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.
On 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.
You don’t need any prior knowledge of climate change, just an interest in science, nature and the environment. However it might be useful to have completed the sister course to this one: Climate Change: The Science.
Taught by
Tim Lenton, Damien Mansell and Liam Taylor
Discover solutions to climate change
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.
On 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.
You don’t need any prior knowledge of climate change, just an interest in science, nature and the environment. However it might be useful to have completed the sister course to this one: Climate Change: The Science.
What topics will you cover?
Climate Action
Climate Action
- Introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals
- Sustainable Energy Production
- Food security and agriculture
- Strengthening the carbon sink
- Pollution in our oceans
- Sustainable fishing
- What do cities of the future look like?
- Taking action into your own hands
Taught by
Tim Lenton, Damien Mansell and Liam Taylor