This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and...
How can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people?
This course explorez greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation. It looks at the relationships between these levels and give many practical examples of the complexities and solutions across the...
How can we shape urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures?
This course will explore sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy. It places cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. Sustainable urban transformation refers to structural transformation processes – multi-dimensional and radical change –...
Besides a fundamental redrawing of the geo-political map, the world is facing a new generation of global environmental, socio-economic, political and demographic challenges, for which our international institutions are ill-equipped. Inherent in the new generation of global change challenges are a set of complex linkages, which are poorly understood, but...
The goal of UAM’s Summer School of Economics and Business (SSEB) is to offer high-quality courses taught in English by professors of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, and to bring together students from all over the world and Spanish students in a truly international environment. The academic excellence...
The ITC-ILO, jointly with the Employment Policy Department and the Department of Statistics, is launching two new courses – integrated within the learning series on the transition to formal economy – in response to the increasing need for countries to strengthen their capacities to produce and collect data on informality...
The importance of decent work in achieving sustainable development is clearly highlighted by SDG 8 which aims to “promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”.
In this regard, the ILO adopted in November 2015 a set of Guidelines for a just...
The World Bank Group is back again, with a new MOOC on climate change, ‘From Climate Science to Action’ after the Turn Down the Heat Series, starting on May 9, 2016. With an overview of COP21 outcomes from Paris, this action-oriented MOOC gives you the opportunity to learn about regional...
Low emission development strategies (LEDS) are country-led and country-specific strategic plans to promote economic growth while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (in absolute and/or relative terms) over the long term.
This curriculum includes training on LEDS and the LEDS process. Specifically, it provides training on:
- organizing the LEDS process...
With our growing appetite for electrical and electronic products, combined with rapid innovation and ever-shorter product lifespans, e-waste has now become one of the fastest growing waste streams.
This MOOC will help you to understand why and how we must manage e-waste in an environmentally sound manner and how you...