UNEP Certificate Course on Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience 2025 – YOA

Deadline: Ongoing

Applications for the UNEP Certificate Course on Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience 2025 at the moment are open. In this on-line course, UNEP and environmental specialists from all over the world will give you solutions to questions on Nature-based options, reaching out to you, to planners, coverage makers, engineers, companies, and youth. This is an OPPORTUNITY for you to affix a neighborhood of learners and environmental advocates.

First touching upon the “why”, the course gives an introduction to nature-based mostly options for catastrophe and local weather resilience, the advantages and potential alternatives. Then, particular modules aimed toward totally different goal audiences will focus on the sensible application of nature-based mostly options, the “how”.

Who is the course aimed toward? Nature-based options are related to everybody, and all of us profit from seeing them utilized. With this in thoughts, the course is designed to be accessible to everybody, irrespective of your background.

Course Content

• Unit 1: Why is that this subject related for me?
• Unit 2: What are Nature-based Solutions for catastrophe and local weather resilience?
• Unit 3: Nature-based Solutions utilized to urgent challenges: urbanization, coastal improvement, and drylands growth
• Unit 4: Inclusive Action: The significance of youth, communities and indigenous folks in Nature-based Solutions
• Unit 5: From coverage to observe
• Unit 6: The enterprise case for Nature-based Solutions
• Unit 7: Time for motion!

Benefits

• Learn easy methods to apply Nature-based Solutions in enhancing resilience to disasters and local weather change, whether or not you’re a youth chief, practitioner, coverage maker, engineer or enterprise proprietor.
• Learn about how human actions are interlinked with ecological techniques and most important instruments and approaches for making use of Nature-based Solutions to lowering catastrophe and local weather dangers.
• Learn how coverage makers are together with nature as an answer in coverage processes for lowering catastrophe and local weather dangers.
• Learn how practitioners are making use of nature-based mostly options for lowering dangers of pure hazards by investing in restoration and safety.
• Learn about inexperienced infrastructure and designing with nature as a viable complement to gray engineered safety buildings for lowering impacts of catastrophe occasions.
• Learn what younger folks and lecturers, coverage makers, practitioners, companies and engineers can do to get entangled in our race towards the local weather emergency.

Eligibility

The course is open for anybody and will be useful for the next goal teams:

• Practitioners: Disaster threat discount & local weather change specialists, environmental managers, NGOs, and native authorities.
• Policy makers: Decision makers at worldwide, nationwide, and native ranges.
• Engineers & Urban planners: Including architects, geographers and city designers.
• Businesses: Including banking, insurance coverage, and Corporate Social Responsibility managers.
• Youth and Educators: Parents, lecturers, college students.

Application

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