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Title | The Climate Leader |
| Offered by | Climate Interactive, https://www.climateinteractive.org/the-climate-leader/ |
| Thematic Focus | Questions such as below will be asked: What is a system?
Where to find the most leverage in change making?
Drawing the interactions of a system to illuminate them
Building reinforcing feedback loops to create momentum for change
Systems structures that can inhibit change efforts
How to see the parts of the big picture
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| Objective of the training | This online course will share some time-tested insights into navigating the complex world of taking action on climate. Included will be video lessons offering some practical and proven approaches for leading in complexity, being strategic, and drawing on both your own rational brilliance and your own deep intuitive instincts through systems thinking. Lessons will be led by Dr. Elizabeth Sawin and Drew Jones, co-directors of Climate Interactive, who will share their wealth of insights on systems thinking with you. |
| Participants profile | Anybody working on a pathway to a healthy climate. |
| Cost | free students, business leaders, activists, and UN negotiators |
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| Level | Beginner |
| Format | e-Learning |
| Title | Introduction to Climate Change |
| Offered by | UNITAR, http://unccelearn.org/ |
| Thematic Focus | Do you know what temperature change is projected for this century?
How the international climate change negotiation process works? What adaptation and mitigation options are available and how to select the most adequate ones? Where the financing comes from?
12 hours
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Available in English and in French |
| Cost | Free |
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| Offered by | adelphi, with financial support from GIZ’s Climate Finance Readiness Programme (CF Ready) on behalf of the BMZ. |
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| Thematic Focus | Getting to know the challenges countries face with regard to national/ international climate finance and getting to know the concept of Climate Finance Readiness (CFR); reflecting on why readiness for climate finance matters; increased capacity to discuss and improve CFR in the country context. The CliFiT toolkit comprises eight training modules covering relevant areas for climate finance readiness: 1- M&E, 2- Strategies&Policies, 3- Gender in climate Finance, 4- Pipeline development, 5- Stakeholders and institutions, 6- Good Financial Governance, 7- Private Sector engagement, 8- International Landscape. |
| Objective of the training | The overall objective of the training is to provide tailor-made support, strengthening the ability of countries to build a coherent national framework for climate finance, to access international climate finance and to spend funds effectively and transparently. |
| Participants profile | Representatives of ministries for the environment, finance and planning, and relevant line ministries, representatives of National Designated Authorities (NDAs) and existing or planned National Implementing Entities (NIEs) or other climate finance relevant institutions, GIZ staff, international think tanks and other governmental or non-governmental bodies interested in climate finance and climate finance readiness. |
| Cost | Free |
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| Level | Beginners |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change in General |
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| Offered by | Bread for all, various locations: Guatemala, South Africa, Uganda. |
| Period: | 2 weeks, within various dates in 2014 |
| Thematic Focus | First week: the Participatory Assessment of Climate and Disaster Risks (PACDR) – the tool will help to assess climate and disaster risks and analyze an existing project regarding its contribution to the adaptability of the local population and to climate protection. Second week: training with international and national climate experts to learn the global causes and local effects of CC. |
| Objective of the training | Climate change effects have to be included in every existing project, in order to facilitate the population’s adaptability. To this end, Bread for All offers project analysis and climate training sessions in Southern Hemisphere countries for Swiss partner organizations. |
| Participants profile | Swiss partner organizations: International and local trainers. |
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| Level | Beginner |
| Format | Physical Attendance |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change Adaptation |
Title | a practice-oriented training based on the OECD Policy Guidance |
| Offered by | OECD (funded by BMU / GIZ) |
| Period: | 4-5 days, available upon request |
| Thematic Focus | Introduces key steps for climate change adaptation. |
| Objective of the training | Ten training modules introduce the key steps for climate change adaptation. Working with the case of the fictitious state of Zanadu, participants simulate the process of addressing climate adaptation in their decision-making. |
| Participants profile | High-level authorities and experts from local governments, representatives from NGO and community-based organizations, academic institutions, and other local actors. |
| Cost | Free |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Intermediate / Advanced |
| Format | Physical Attendance |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change Adaptation |
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| Offered by | GHG Management Institute |
| Period: | 16 - 20 hrs |
| Thematic Focus | The course introduces, step-by-step, the GHG accounting methods utilized in forest-carbon projects, including afforestation/reforestation (A/R), improved forest management (IFM), and reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Based on ISO 14064-2 and WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol for Projects, this course provides the background necessary to understand forest emission monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV). The course also provides case-studies and examples of a variety of GHG programs, including Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), American Carbon Registry, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and Clean Development Mechanism. |
| Objective of the training | At the completion of the course, students come away with a comprehensive understanding of carbon accounting concepts unique to forest projects. Lesson topics include, how to: determine the baseline scenario; assess additionality; estimate leakage; quantify emissions and removals from carbon stock changes; develop a forest inventory; conduct an uncertainty assessment; demonstrate materiality; and address non-permanence. |
| Participants profile | Forest managers, project developers, community stakeholders, and investment managers seeking to better understand the fundamentals of forest-carbon methodologies, standards, and protocols. |
| Cost | 375 USD |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Intermediate / Advanced |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Environment |
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| Offered by | UN CC:Learn |
| Period: | 12 hrs |
| Thematic Focus | 1. Climate Change Science; 2. International Legal and Policy Framework for Climate Change; 3. Climate Change Adaptation; 4. Climate Change Mitigation and Low Carbon Development; 5. Climate Change Finance; 6. Planning for Climate Change. |
| Objective of the training | Everything you need to know about climate change in a nutshell. UN-Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called climate change the “defining challenge of our time” and in many countries the impacts of it are already felt. At the same time, it is still very difficult for many people not working directly on the subject to understand the basics of climate change. For example, which gases are actually contributing to the greenhouse gas effect? What temperature change is projected for this century? How does the international climate change negotiation process work? What adaptation and mitigation options are available and how to select the most adequate ones? Where does the financing come from? |
| Participants profile | Professionals actively involved in the water and climate sectors, policy makers at local, regional or national level, as staff of NGO or the private sector dealing with adaptation, or as junior university lecturers or scientists etc. |
| Cost | Free |
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| Level | Beginner |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change in General |
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| Offered by | World Bank Institute |
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| Thematic Focus | Review of the scientific consensus on changes in climate patterns and projections to the future. Description of a How-to Framework for Climate-Resilient Development Plans, which consists of an introductory guide to: i) Frame the adaptation problem and make it a challenge that can be realistically addressed; ii) Identify relevant climate risks and impacts; iii) Identify the range of adaptation options available; iv) Estimate what it will cost to adapt to climate change; v) Prioritize adaptation measures. The course ends with a practical application of the How-to Framework. |
| Objective of the training | In this course, you will learn the basics for developing economically viable climate-resilient plans. |
| Participants profile | The primary target audience are policymakers in developing countries who have been tasked with developing climate-resilient plans (at the national or regional level) or have been asked to provide estimates of how much it will cost their country to adapt to climate change. The module will also be of interest to World Bank staff who are being requested by client countries to assist them in these tasks. |
| Cost | Free |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Intermediate / Advanced |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change in General |
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| Offered by | World Bank Institute |
| Period: | Self-paced |
| Thematic Focus | Module 1: Preparing for Project Monitoring (reviews key concepts, such as carbon pools, project stratification and boundary, sampling design and species data). Module 2: Monitoring Forest Carbon Stocks (how to measure various forest carbon pools). Module 3: Monitoring Project Emissions and Leakage (explores sources of project emissions and leakage). |
| Objective of the training | Monitoring is important in implementing afforestation and reforestation projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). This e-learning course presents the methods for carbon monitoring in these types of projects, and includes three modules. |
| Participants profile | Project developers, managers and staff working on afforestation/reforestation projects and on carbon finance |
| Cost | Free |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Intermediate / Advanced |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change in General |
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| Offered by | CARE International's Poverty, Environment, and Climate Change Network (PECCN) |
| Period: | Self-paced |
| Thematic Focus | Module 1: Concepts in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Module 2: Understanding vulnerability. Module 3: Introduction to disaster risk reduction. Module 4: Introduction to climate change adaptation. Module 5: Guiding principles for integrating adaptation in disaster risk reduction. |
| Objective of the training | The project aims to create e-learning modules on integrating climate change into DRM. The consolidated learning generated under the project will be fed into national programming for the development, or revision, of culturally and linguistically appropriate and nationally endorsed tools in participating countries. |
| Participants profile | Key government, civil society and community representatives from the “Strengthening Community-based Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in Asia" (SCDRM+) project countries (Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Timor-Leste, Vietnam and Vanuatu). |
| Cost | Free |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Beginner |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change Adaptation |
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| Offered by | University of Oxford |
| Period: | Self-paced |
| Thematic Focus | Environmental Sciences: introduction to climate science and modelling and the current understanding of some of the issues surrounding the use of model projections of climate change. The course is a stand-alone, untutored learning experience that can be taken at the convenience of the user. |
| Objective of the training | This short course has been designed to give you an introduction to climate science and modelling, and how to go about interpreting the results of climate modelling experiments. |
| Participants profile | This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to learn about the basics of climate science and modelling and how to go about interpreting the results of modelling experiments. It may particularly suit those proposing to use regional climate projection data in impact/adaptation work. |
| Cost | Free |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Beginner |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change in General |
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| Offered by | The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) |
| Period: | 2 hrs |
| Thematic Focus | Climate change, environment and natural resource management. |
| Objective of the training | The learning modules are meant to help users understand environmental and climate change challenges, especially their impacts on IFAD projects. The learning modules will outline IFAD approaches to climate change, environment and natural resource management, providing resources, best practices and tools for improving projects. The four modules will help users understand how to scale up impacts and empower IFAD and its partners. |
| Participants profile | IFAD staff, consultants, project partners, governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). |
| Cost | Free |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Intermediate / Advanced |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Environment |
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| Offered by | The “Improved Global Governance for Hunger Reduction” Programme (EU, FAO, IFAD, WFP) |
| Period: | Self-paced |
| Thematic Focus | Overview of the concept of climate change, the course then looks at its impact on food security. After examining strategies for mitigating or adapting to the effects of climate change, it suggests concrete ways to make sure agriculture is “climate smart”. |
| Objective of the training | This free course helps us understand how climate change affects agriculture and our food security – and what can be done. |
| Participants profile | Policy makers and people working in development agencies, who need to better understand how climate change affects agriculture and food systems, and what concrete actions can be taken. |
| Cost | Free |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Beginner |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Environment |
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| Offered by | Conservation Training (The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, Rainforest Alliance, WWF, GIZ and the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance) |
| Language | Englisha and Spanish |
| Period: | 6.75 hrs |
| Thematic Focus | t is divided into three courses: In Course 1, Introduction to climate change and the Role of Forests, the focus is on background information on climate change, the drivers of deforestation, and strategies for reducing deforestation and forest degradation. In Course 2, REDD+ Policy, we cover the essential aspects of the technical, political, financial, social, and environmental issues related to REDD+. In Course 3, REDD+ Implementation, the focus is on the basics of implementing REDD+ activities at various scales. |
| Objective of the training | The curriculum, Introductory Curriculum on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and Conserving and Enhancing Forest Carbon Stocks (REDD+), provides an introductory level of understanding on climate change, deforestation, forest degradation, and REDD+. |
| Participants profile | The course is freely available to anyone who is interested. |
| Cost | Free |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Intermediate / Advanced |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change Mitigation |
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| Offered by | Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) |
| Language | English, French and Spanish |
| Period: | Self-paced |
| Thematic Focus | Module 1: Climate Change; Module 2: Climate change and Food security; Module 3: Preparing for Community Based Adaptation; Module 4: Implementing Community Based Adaptation. The e-learning tool supports training on community-based climate change adaptation in agriculture. The tool links research-based knowledge on climate change impacts with examples and experiences on CBA drawn from FAO field projects and a range of country-specific case studies. |
| Objective of the training | The intended outcome of the tool is to assist all actors, who face the challenge of initiating and facilitating adaptation processes at community level. |
| Participants profile | Development partners; agricultural extension staff; community based organizations; field practitioners. |
| Cost | Free |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Beginner |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change Adaptation |
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Title | Massive on-line Course Disasters and Ecosystem: Resilience in a changing climate |
| Offered by | |
| Period: | |
| Thematic Focus | Disaster trends and statistics;
Fundamentals of disaster risk reduction;
Climate change, disasters, and environmental linkages;
Tools for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and adaptation; and
Global, national and local processes of disaster risk reduction. |
| Objective of the training | This MOOC enhances knowledge and skills for tackling complex issues such as resilience and transformation and how sustainable development, ecosystem management, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation are linked and can be operationalized. |
| Participants profile | .disaster managers and practitioners, climate change adaptation professionals, development planners and project implementers, and policymakers. |
| Cost | Free |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Beginners |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change Adaptation |
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| Offered by | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training Center (NCTC), United States of America Government |
| Period: | 5 months |
| Thematic Focus | This five month online course is designed to cover the fundamentals of climate science, provide tools and resources for climate adaptation, and increase climate literacy and communication. |
| Objective of the training | At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to: Explain the scientific basis of climate change. Understand biological impacts of climate change. Recognize and identify methods of addressing uncertainty. Understand Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments. Identify principles of adaptation planning and examples of adaptation action. Effectively communicate climate change impacts to co-workers, stakeholders and management. Identify methods to incorporate climate change into your work. |
| Participants profile | Natural resource managers and conservation professionals. |
| Cost | 200 USD |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Begginer |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change in General |
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| Offered by | The Center for Sustainable Development |
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| Thematic Focus | This is a course in international development where you will each continue the development of your climate change project that was started in OL 341. Designing and Funding CBA Projects with funding and management in mind. Each one of the assignments will be a concrete step in preparing your project for a donor presentation. |
| Objective of the training | Imbed impact into your adaptation project design with a set of powerful management tools: Logframes, budgets, compelling fact sheets. They will communicate to donors & stakeholders exactly what you are going to accomplish and can be used for effective management of the project once funded. |
| Participants profile | Our online courses are for international development organizations, grassroots organizations and nonprofit staff. |
| Cost | 150 USD |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Beginner |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change Adaptation |
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| Offered by | World Bank Institute |
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| Thematic Focus | i) Preparing an overall investment strategy to meet climate change objectives. ii) Identifying envelopes of investments to meet those objectives, focusing on sectoral issues (energy, transport, forestry and land-use change). iii) Estimating real costs of investments and identifying sources of finance. iv) Selecting and setting up the appropriate financial instruments. v) Involving the private sector to scale-up action vi) Undertaking the appropriate underlying technical, economic and financial analyses. vii) Launching a national dialogue to shape the plan and ensure public participation. viii) Addressing social issues, including gender. ix) Managing results, monitoring and evaluation. |
| Objective of the training | Teach policymakers, planners and climate change practitioners how to design and finance strategic plans and programs for low carbon and climate resilient development that go beyond a project-by-project approach. |
| Participants profile | Policymakers, planners and climate change practitioners. |
| Cost | Free |
| Deadline for application | |
| Level | Intermediate / Advanced |
| Format | E-Learning |
| Thematic Topic | Climate Change in General |
