What everyone needs to know about climate change? Climate.now is a course on the basics of climate system, its change and effects of the change, how to mitigate and adapt to changing climate.
Climate change affects every part of our society. People from all fields of expertise are needed to defeat climate change. With the Climate.now course, you can broaden and deepen your knowledge and accuire new skills of the topic.
Climate.now MOOC belongs to the courses offered by the Climate University network of Finnish universities. MOOC is a free online course open to everyone.
The three main themes of the course are
- the natural science foundations of climate change (including the greenhouse effect, the carbon cycle, the climate models)
- mitigation of climate change (including carbon-neutral energy and renewable energy production, carbon footprint, climate policy)
- impacts and adaptation (including ecosystem services, feedback phenomena, adaptation to climate change).
Completion of credits:
Climate.now course is offered in slightly different forms at several Finnish universities. At the University of Turku, the course can be completed for 2 ECTS credits. If you want to get credits for the course, you must register for the course through your university, another university's cross-study agreement, or the open university.
To receive credits from the open university, you must register as a Climate.now - Introduction to Climate Change Course participant and pay the tuition fee and complete the required assignments.
You can study the online course independently from August 2024 to July 2025.
The course can also be studied in the academic year 2025 - 2026.
Registration:
> Registration 13.8.2024 - 15.6.2025 See In English
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