Climate-Neutral World - Theory, Applications and Taking Action edX - online learning platform

Overview

We invite you to join this journey, bring your own experiences and challenges and to discuss these with like-minded peers who want to tackle humanity’s greatest challenge just like you! Learn more at this Climate-Neutral World - Theory, Applications and Taking Action Professional Certificate in collaboration with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) - DelftX.

Key Facts

Mitigation of climate change is one of the most important challenges of our times. To prevent irreversible damage to human societies and the environment, it was agreed that world countries should limit the global average temperature rise to well below 2 °C or even to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.But where to start, and how to take action?

This 4-course program is designed for the next generation of policy-makers, sustainability consultants or professionals and students from various fields who want to obtain basic knowledge about climate change and to get an overview of mitigation strategies in various industries and organizations. It will provide you with knowledge and basic skills and tools to design a concrete action plan to make your organization climate-neutral.

Job Outlook

• Worldwide we need to reduce our carbon emissions to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius.
• To meet these targets urgent action needs to be taken by a range of actors such as governments, companies, individuals, and NGOs.
• Such an increase in efforts requires not only new jobs but also adapting current employees to understand the potential for climate actions and how to deal with diverse policies affecting the investment climate in energy.
• Job growth includes organizational directors or sustainability managers in corporations, NGO or government entities with responsibilities related to improving sustainability and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.