The REDD+ Academy is a coordinated REDD+ capacity development initiative led by the UN-REDD Programme and the UNEP Environmental Education and Training Unit, which seeks to match the scale of the global climate change mitigation challenge and enable systematic, focused capacity development to deliver REDD+ on the ground. The Academy...
The course is aimed to strengthen the competences of trade unionists who are involved in promoting sustainable development and decent work. Links will be established between climate change, employment and the principle of just transition to a green economy. Emphasis will be put on the ILO Decent Work agenda as...
The course explores the competencies needed for execution of socially and environmentally responsible procurement while upholding value for money (VFM). It explains the process for development of Sustainable Procurement Plans at national or organizational levels, their contents and targets. At procurement implementation level the course explains how social and environmental...
In the unique International Geneva setting, the Executive Summer School provides a special opportunity for participants from both the public and the private sectors to enlarge their competences in order to address complex environmental issues. Beyond enlarging the knowledge base of each participant, the modules of this transdisciplinary programme bridge...
The ILO's International Training Centre (ITC) is committed to assisting countries in their social and economic development through learning and training. Through their green jobs website, they offer users information on upcoming courses on green jobs, organised by ITC, and provide its users with ongoing news updates regarding the broader...
The objective of this training course is to introduce participants to the topic of green growth, a policy focus for Asia and the Pacific that emphasizes ecologically sustainable economic progress to foster low-carbon, socially inclusive development. This course contains the following four modules:
- Sustainable consumption and production;
- Greening business;
- Sustainable...
The objective of the “Liveable cities” online training course is to build the capacity of participants in planning cities and their infrastructure, such as transport, housing, energy systems, water systems, parks, etc., in a way to promote social, economic and environmental benefits. In other words, participants learn how to prioritize...
The concept of Green Growth emerged in the Asia-Pacific region to turn resource constraints and the climate crisis into an economic opportunity that generates a double dividend (higher growth with lower environmental impact) by improving the efficiency of resource use and increasing investments in natural capital to drive economic growth...
The objective of the “Sustaining Growth” online training course is to introduce participants to the determinants of growth and its relation to societal progress and the synergies and tradeoffs between the three pillars of sustainable development. The first module under the Sustaining Growth course is called Resource Efficiency and contains...
