Climate Change: Solutions

FutureLearn Review
Location
Online(Course Link)
Dates
On Demand
Course Categories
Math, Science and Engineering
Certficate
Yes(Course Certificate ($54))
Language
English
Course Fees
FreeNo. of Attendant
Unlimited
Acquired Skills/Covered Subjects
- 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
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About The Provider |
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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.