Professional Certificate: Climate-Neutral World: Theory, Applications and Taking Action

Professional Certificate

Develop the proficiency and expertise that employers are looking for with specialized training and professional education.

4 Courses in program
4 weeks per course
4 - 6 hours per week
English language

Mitigation of climate change is one of the most important challenges of our times. To prevent irreversible damage to human societies and the environment, it was agreed that world countries should limit the global average temperature rise to well below 2 °C or even to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.

But where to start, and how to take action?

This 4-course program is designed for the next generation of policy policy-makers, sustainability consultants or professionals and students from various fields who want to obtain basic knowledge about climate change and to get an overview of mitigation strategies in various industries and organizations. It will provide you with knowledge and basic skills and tools to design a concrete action plan to make your organization climate-neutral.

In the first three courses, you will get insights into the what and how of greenhouse gas emission reductions: what are technologies and behavioural changes that are effective, how to analyze their potential, cost-effectiveness and feasibility, and which policies and strategies can be used to implement them. In the fourth course, you will integrate those insights into action and learn to define targets and develop a feasible action plan for an organization to reduce its carbon footprint and become climate-neutral.

We invite you to join this journey, bring your own experiences and challenges and to discuss these with like-minded peers who want to tackle humanity’s greatest challenge just like you!

Identify the most relevant greenhouse gas mitigation options for your specific need and situation.
Determine the costs and potential of the mitigation options in various sectors and construct marginal abatement cost curves.
Analyze the interaction between the various mitigation options from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives.
Set reduction targets for their specific professional sector, identify relevant policy incentives for their context and have a basic understanding of their quantitative impacts.
Identify the potential role of of companies and cities in climate action

Worldwide we need to reduce our carbon emissions to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius.
To meet these targets urgent action needs to be taken by a range of actors such as governments, companies, individuals, and NGOs.
Such an increase in efforts requires not only new jobs but also adapting current employees to understand the potential for climate actions and how to deal with diverse policies affecting the investment climate in energy.
Job growth includes organizational directors or sustainability managers in corporations, NGO or government entities with responsibilities related to improving sustainability and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

If you successfully complete this program you will earn a Professional Program Certificate.