Deadline: December 1, 2021
On January 22, UNEP and PEDRR launched the free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on ‘Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience’.
About the Course
Nature offers many solutions to reduce the impacts of disasters and climate change, such as protecting forests on steep slopes, maintaining sand dunes along coastline and wetlands to buffer excess rainwater. In this course, you will find out how people around the world are building resilience to disasters and climate change impacts through Nature-based Solutions.
This course will help you understand how to apply these Nature-based Solutions that restore or protect natural or modified ecosystems and biodiversity and allow for their sustainable management. Nature-based Solutions for increasing disaster and climate resilience are relevant to everybody and each of us can take some actions – small or large in promoting them. With this in mind, the introductory module is designed to be accessible to everyone, whatever your level of experience or your background.
Course Contents:
- Unit 1:Why is this topic relevant for me?
- Unit 2:What are Nature-based Solutions for disaster and climate resilience?
- Unit 3:Nature-based Solutions applied to pressing challenges: urbanization, coastal development, and drylands expansion
- Unit 4:Inclusive Action: The importance of youth, communities and indigenous people in Nature-based Solutions
- Unit 5:From policy to practice
- Unit 6:The business case for Nature-based Solutions
- Unit 7:Time for action!
Eligibility
The course is open to everyone who would like to deepen their knowledge of the application of NbS and are targeted at specific groups, namely:
- Practitioners: Risk reduction & climate change experts, environmental managers, NGOs, and local government.
- Policy makers:Decision makers at international, national, and local levels.
- Engineers & Urban planners: Including architects, geographers and urban designers.
- Businesses: Including banking, insurance, and Corporate Social Responsibility managers.
- Youth and educators: Parents, teachers, students
There are no prerequisites, just an interest to learn more about how you can make a difference!
Benefits
- Receive a UNEP course certificate upon course completion, However, fees for obtaining the EdX certificate may apply.
- Choose to take the course in 7 languages: English, French, Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, and Indonesian.
- Meet & interact with environmental experts and practitioners
- Access 6 hours of free learning materials, including case studies and exclusive interviews with world leaders
- Join a growing community of practice on Nature-based Solutions and expand your professional network
- Learn how to make a difference!
Application
For more information: please check the official website.
To apply: Click here
