Climate Change: Understanding the Challenge for Humanity

Overview

Climate change represents one of the greatest threats humanity has ever faced, and we need everyone on board to fight it.

This course will provide a working knowledge and understanding of the mechanics of climate change. In this short course, we will discuss how human actions are causing climate change and what you can do about it.

We’ll learn how carbon emissions and other factors affect the environment, what will happen if we don’t take collective action, and what we can do to slow the process on an individual, community and organisational basis.

Objectives

In this course you will:

• Gain a working knowledge and understanding of the mechanics of climate change  
• Understand the science behind climate change  
• Learn about international efforts to fight climate change  Understand how to reduce your personal carbon footprint