Grow your Career with the Green & Just Transition Free Online Course organized by UNDP

Ednah Carrick July 9, 2024

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Closing Date: Ongoing

Grow your Career with the Green & Just Transition Free Online Course organized by UNDP

About the Online Course

This course builds on the ‘Green & Just Transition’ module in the Foundations course of the Urban Learning Centre. It provides a deep dive into the understanding the basic concepts related to the climate emergency being faced worldwide, as well as the climate actions and solutions that cities and towns can consider addressing it and integrating within their Pathways for Sustainable Economic Growth (P4EG).

Through inspirational case-studies, the online course highlights how European cities are effectively implementing a wide range of transdisciplinary solutions to achieve their ambitious net zero and resilience goals. It also illustrates how cities are leveraging multiple EU-wide processes and planning mechanisms – such as, Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs) and Climate City Contracts – as an opportunity to accelerate their local multistakeholder collaboration, rapid decarbonisation, and a wide range of co-benefits for their citizens and communities.

What will this course cover?

This course introduces the key concepts, solutions and planning processes essential for a Green and Just Transition and what this means for cities or towns, in terms of their practice, planning and projects. The modules in this course connect with several P4EG steps outlined in the P4EG Course of the Urban Learning Center, namely, Local Economic Situation Assessment, Strategy making, Action planning and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL).

The course provides a range of opportunities to learn; from video summaries and bite-sized content to interactive quizzes and activities to help you to apply these new learning to your own context.

Benefits

Across a series of modules, you will gain an understanding of the basic concepts of climate action and net zero, including climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience – and what they mean in practice and in relation to the pathways towards sustainable and economic growth.

You will dive deeper into the inspirational solutions that European cities are currently testing and experimenting with to address rapid and ambitious climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience across their most critical sectors and stakeholders.
You will learn about how cities and towns could potentially align and learn from their envisioned impacts for a Green & Just Transition with their P4EG strategic objectives, action planning, and monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL).

Learning Objectives

Understand the urgency to mitigate GHG emissions, adapt to climate change, and build resilience alongside economic development and growth; Which adverse climate-induced risks and disasters can cities, towns or regions face, based on the latest scientific assessments?

How to build capabilities and capacities to better understand and describe the short-term, medium-term, long-term impacts and outcomes for their P4EG efforts?
Learn from real-life examples, case-studies and climate actions, planning approaches that a city or town can undertake to address their net zero goals and align actions with their P4EG journeys.

How to join?

You can flexibly follow the modules in this course to suit your learning needs. Each module can be accessed ‘on-demand’ for you to learn at your own pace, both individually, or as a team of colleagues in your municipality.

The course is open access (after registration with an email address) for anyone interested. The course is expected to take 4-5 hours, however, it is advised that the course is taken as part of the development of the P4EG within your town or city.