The One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC:Learn) is hosting Green Industrial Policy: Promoting competitiveness and structural transformation developed under the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE).
The course is designed to advance learning on green industrial policy at a high technical level and serves two types of users. First, the course provides individual learners with the knowledge and conceptual tools to grasp and shape the global debate on modernizing the industrial basis of economies. Second, lecturers and instructors are encouraged to use the course materials and apply them within their instructional activities, for example by integrating them into existing curricula and/or programmes.
The course's materials are curated to help achieve the following learning objectives:
- Explain the rationale for advancing green industry
- Differentiate the main concepts related to green industrial policy
- Highlight relevant empirical evidence in support of policy reform
- Distinguish policy instruments to foster structural change
- Appraise strategic considerations during policy design, implementation and evaluation
- Outline the relationship between green industrial policy and trade
Course content
The course offers a wide panorama of the main conceptual and empirical considerations within the current global green industrial policy debate along five modules, each addressing a specific set of questions:
- Industrial policy: Challenges and opportunities
- Green industrial policy: Conceptual foundations
- Strategic development of green industrial policy
- Green industrial policy instruments
- Green industrial policy and trade
Users who take the stand-alone online course obtain a Certificate of Completion upon passing the final quiz. Once the certification criteria are met, users can download the certificate under the "Certification" tab