Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
This course explored some of the solutions to climate change and other global environmental problems, including how to take personal action. The course used the theme of the Sustainable Development Goals to highlight the ways that climate change is linked to many other natural and social systems.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Tim Lenton
Chair in Climate Change/Earth System Science
University of Exeter
Dr Damien Mansell
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
University of Exeter
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- 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
Syllabus
Climate Action
- Introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals
- Sustainable Energy Production
Life on Land
- Food security and agriculture
- Strengthening the carbon sink
Life below Water
- Pollution in our oceans
- Sustainable fishing
Sustainable Cities and Communities
- What do cities of the future look like?
- Taking action into your own hands
Issued on 2nd March 2021
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