UNEP and its partners offer a wide range of courses on critical environmental issues.
1. MOOC on Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience
Nature offers many solutions to reduce the impacts of disasters and climate change, such as protecting forests on steep slopes, maintaining sand dunes along coastline and wetlands to buffer excess rainwater.
In this free-of-charge massive open online course (MOOC), find out how people around the world are building resilience to disasters and climate change impacts through nature-based solutions.
This course will help you understand how to apply these nature-based solutions that restore or protect natural or modified ecosystems and biodiversity and allow for their sustainable management.
This course is open to everyone, whether you have an environmental background or not and you can choose from your preferred languages including English, French, Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, and Bahasa.
The free and self-paced course is available here. You can also watch the promotional video and check out the website.
Audit the course for free and receive a UNEP certificate upon course completion. Verified users can pay to receive an additional edX certificate.
2. MOOC on Marine Litter
Join the next MOOC on Marine Litter! This free, online course was developed by UNEP and the Open Universiteit of the Netherlands, as a key activity of the Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GPML). The MOOC has been created to stimulate leadership and offers opportunities for actionable and change-oriented learning related to marine litter and microplastics. The course is now available in 10 languages!
Leadership Track: Up to 10 hours / Expert Track: 30 additional hours
For more information click here. To join the GPML click here.
3. From Source to Sea to Sustainability
This course looks at the concept of Source-to-Sea with a holistic, conceptual, and practical approach. With a wide range of topics to offer, this course covers the scientific basics of the nutrient cycle and wastewater management. It also discusses the methodologies, assessment tools, financial mechanisms available to protect our waters, as well as the policies, governance, and technologies for turning nutrients and wastewater into a resource.
For more information click here.
