Program Overview

MOOC Climate Action in Biodiverse Landscapes

This online course will boost your knowledge and skills to help you move from analysis to action in order to develop climate smart landscapes across the world.

Course Details

• Organised by: Wageningen University & Research
• Duration: 4 weeks, 4-6 hours per week

Why Follow This Course?

The question is no longer WHY should we take climate action, but rather HOW we can take action. In this course, you will learn how to take joint action to understand and address climate change impacts in your landscape or work.

Is This Course For You?

Join this course if you want to:

• Understand how climate change is impacting you and your landscape
• Know how to mobilize collaboration among landscape actors
• Learn from nature-based climate solutions from around the world
• Get practical support in taking some first steps in climate action in your landscape

What You Will Learn

• Define and explain different forms of climate action and understand the global urgency to take collective action
• Understand how climate change is impacting you and your landscape and why the landscape is a good entry point to take climate action
• Understand the relationship between climate change and biodiversity, and why integrating biodiversity in climate action is essential
• Assess stakeholder dynamics in your landscape and understand the importance of effective multi-stakeholder collaboration for climate action
• Apply participatory tools and methods to assess climate vulnerabilities and identify, prioritise and assess adaptation and mitigation measures to support landscape decision making
• Explain what nature-based climate solutions are and how they can benefit your landscape
• Turn your climate action into a business case and identify potential sources of climate finance

Online Programme Sustainable and Inclusive Landscapes

This course is also part of the Sustainable and Inclusive Landscapes Professional Certificate Programme. Following the complete programme lets you harness the power of place and advance your career as a landscape leader. The programme consists of the following courses, which can be taken in any given order:

• Landscape Leadership: Catalyse sustainable development in landscapes
• Landscape Finance: Investing in Innovation for Sustainable Landscapes
• Landscape Governance: Collaborating Across Sectors and Scales
• Climate Action in Biodiverse Landscapes (this course)

Course Leaders

• TJ (Tossa) Harding MSc
• JL (James) Mulkerrins MSc

Related Education

• Master's Climate Studies
• Master's Environmental Sciences
• Master's Plant Sciences

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