United Nations Courses

Sustainable Diet

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Learn how your food habits and daily choices are affecting your health and that of the planet. Gain the skills and knowledge to make your diet more healthy and sustainable.

• Independent
• 2 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

This course helps you better understand the linkages between gender and the environment and become an effective change-maker for sustainable development. It contains six modules which takes around 1 hour to complete.  You need to pass a quiz after t…

• Independent
• 1 hour of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

This course provides an introduction to the health challenges, as well as the opportunities, that can by associated to climate change. It contains one module which takes around 2 hours to complete. You need to pass a quiz after the module to receive yo…

• Independent
• 2 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

This mini e-course aims to increase the involvement of climate experts from developing countries in the IPCC reports.  The course enables first-time reviewers and early career climate experts to understand how the IPCC works and how to contribute to…

• Independent
• 3 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Green Industrial Policy

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Over two and a half centuries, the model of economic development based on wide-spread industrialization has given rise to both unprecedented prosperity and global ecological threats. Climate change, environmental pollution, biodiversity loss and ubiquito…

• Independent
• 30 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Carbon Taxation

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Recent years have seen renewed and growing interest in policy instruments that put a price on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the adoption of carbon taxes. About half of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted by governments under…

• Independent
• 12 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

In this course, we will go on a journey that introduces us to the basic concepts, policy instruments and international frameworks of inclusive green economies. Our path consists of five modules which are divided into smaller sections. You can start with…

• Independent
• 10 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

This course provides “everything you need to know” about the basics of climate change, from climate change science to governance. It contains 6 modules with each module taking about 2 hours to complete. You need to pass a quiz after each module to recei…

• Independent
• 2 hours a week
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

This course presents how children and youth can be impacted by climate change, how their resilience to climate change can be strengthened, and how they can act on climate change.

• Independent
• 2 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

This course focuses on climate change in urban areas, covering how cities are affected by climate change, how they contribute to it, as well as how they plan for it. It contains one module which takes around 2 hours to complete. You need to pass a quiz…

• Independent
• 2 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Fundamentals on REDD+ covers the basics of REDD+, from the elements required under the UNFCCC to how to prepare and implement REDD+ at the national level including financial resource available. It is structured into 6 modules, and each module takes aroun…

• Independent
• 12 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

While how to prepare and implement REDD+ at the national level through a National Strategy or Action Plan was covered in the course Fundamentals on REDD+, Advancing on REDD+ discusses in more detail the other three REDD+ elements, to which it adds the im…

• Independent
• 12 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Climate Change: From Learning to Action

The course helps you understand what is climate change, how it affects you and others, and what can be done to address it. After completing the course, learners will be able to explain: What is climate change is?
 How to adapt to the negative impacts of…

• Independent
• 12 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

The Climate Change International Legal Regime course presents the causes and effects of climate change, describes the mechanisms established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and explains the key provisions and commitm…

• Independent
• 3 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

The Strategic Alliance on Green Bond Market Development in G20 Emerging Economies (STA), a partnership between Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Partnership for Action…

• Independent
• 2 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course