Climate Change Leadership for Community Resilience

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As climate impacts intensify, communities need leaders who can turn evidence into coordinated, on-the-ground resilience. This specialization is intended for learners and professionals—across government, nonprofits, education, healthcare, and business—who want practical skills to lead community-based climate action and advance equity-centered outcomes. Through three courses, you will examine the evidence and physical science of climate change, the drivers and trends of greenhouse gas emissions, and how the climate may change in the future. You will then apply leadership principles, ethics, design thinking, and inclusive team-building to engage stakeholders, align priorities, and mobilize collective action. By the end, you’ll be better equipped to select and adapt climate solutions to local social and environmental conditions and support resilient, sustainable communities.

Syllabus

Course 1: Climate Science for Everyone
Course 2: Environmental Leadership
Course 3: Community-Based Climate Change Solutions

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7 hours 15 minutes
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Climate change impacts everyone — from record-breaking heat waves, to physical and mental health impacts, to food shortages. Understanding the science behind climate change provides you with the foundational knowledge necessary for taking action in your community and enhancing your career. No matter your age, job, goals, or interests, this course will enable you to meaningfully engage with one of the defining challenges facing humanity today. What is the evidence for climate change? What key concepts describe the physical science of climate change? And are there ways to predict how the climate could change in the future? This short course provides everyone an entry-level overview of climate change science, with no science background needed! By the end of the course, you should be able to explain the causes of climate change and its impacts. Along the way, you’ll be given opportunities to consider how to apply this knowledge in your own life or career. Learning about climate science is the first step in your journey to becoming a more engaged global citizen as you help determine our planet’s future.
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11 hours 21 minutes
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What does it mean to be an environmental leader? How can we inspire others to achieve common goals to combat challenges like climate change? This short course provides an entry-level overview of timeless and timely leadership principles and how to apply them to environmental contexts in your own life. No matter your interests, age, career, or goals, you can make a difference. No prerequisites are needed for this course. To combat climate change, protect our environment, and develop sustainable communities, we must all engage in environmental leadership. Addressing today’s complex environmental issues requires us to view leadership less as a responsibility associated with any one position or person, and rather a call for collective action. Through this course, you will learn how to develop competencies and relationships that will help you work with others to understand the interconnectedness of systems and accomplish goals across boundaries. All kinds of leaders are needed to tackle the environmental and climate challenges that we face as a global society. By the end of the course, you will explore concepts of environmental leadership and how you might apply them in your own community or organization. By growing your leadership skills, you will be more fully equipped to work with others to pave the way to a just and sustainable future.
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15 hours 57 minutes
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Climate change will have tremendous impacts on every human community across the globe. However, because of the context of both how climate is changing and how communities are organized and function, it can be disastrous to apply the same solutions across the board. This course will teach you the basic principles needed to identify the dynamics and needs of each community, build on its strengths, and adopt best practices and practical frameworks for adapting climate change solutions to local contexts. You’ll learn tools and approaches to put these principles into practice across different community settings, regardless of your level of prior experience. This course is intended for professionals who have been tasked with implementing climate change solutions at the community level, whether in urban or rural areas or in industrialized or developing countries. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to effectively select and adapt climate change solutions to best match the specific social and environmental context of each community, and to engage community members in implementing sustainable solutions that produce positive, equitable outcomes. This course requires no previous knowledge of climate change solutions or of community engagement, and people with this knowledge will also benefit from the course.