Certificate of Achievement

Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke

has completed the following course:

Championing Change: Human Rights and the Climate Crisis

Amnesty International UK

This course explored the complex relationship between climate change and human rights. The way they influence each other, and how improving one issue can improve the other. The course also looked at how being a human rights activist can help you combat climate change, and vice versa.

3 weeks, 1 hour per week

Sacha Deshmukh

Chief Executive

Amnesty International UK

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Describe how climate change is a major human rights issue
  • Explain and express key terms and concepts related to human rights and climate change
  • Summarise the numerous inequalities of climate change, including its causes and consequences across regions and demographics
  • Evaluate both the mutual supportiveness and possible tensions between human rights and climate change action
  • Compare between different types of climate change response measures that protect and promote human rights
  • Identify human rights-based mechanisms, tools and tactics to shape climate action
  • Engage with and challenge the hostility and antagonism faced by environmental human rights defenders
  • Identify and engage in specific actions to address human rights concerns associated with climate change

Syllabus

During this course, you’ll take an in-depth look at:

  • How climate change is a major human rights issue
  • Definitions of key terms and concepts related to human rights and climate change
  • An outline of the numerous inequalities of climate change, including its causes and consequences across regions and demographics
  • How human rights can contribute to finding better solutions to climate change

Issued on 26th October 2022

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Free online course:

Championing Change: Human Rights and the Climate Crisis

Amnesty International UK