Climate Solutions & Strategies Programme

Learners come from an exceptionally diverse range of professional backgrounds, including:

• Sustainability and ESG
• Business development, management and leadership
• AI and technology
• Finance, banking and risk management
• Energy
• Engineering
• Communications and marketing
• Activism
• Policy, governance and law
• Health and medicine
• Development
• Conservation and environmental science
• Journalism and reporting
• Entrepreneurship
• Architecture and construction 

Unique skills-led curriculum

Course content is built by leading experts with a focus on knowledge and skills that are directly applicable to climate careers.

Foundations

The first ten weeks involve:

• Introduction and orientation: Set personal learning and career goals, connect with your cohort, and use insights from the neuroscience of learning to make your study more effective.
• Mental models for tackling climate change: Use systems mapping to break down the “super wicked problem” of climate change, and analyse how competing climate worldviews shape the solutions people support.
• The science of climate change: Explain the mechanisms behind climate change, interpret how they’re measured and analysed, and turn climate data into clear, accurate visualisations.
• Human dimensions: Analyse how economics, politics and justice shape climate policy and governance, evaluate compliance carbon markets, and map stakeholder power and influence to identify where change can happen.
• Climate risks, impacts and decision-making under uncertainty: Assess climate risks and impacts, from tipping points to local effects, and use and critique forecasting tools to make sound decisions under uncertainty.
• Framing and comparing climate solutions: Evaluate climate solutions and their trade-offs for resilience and mitigation in real-world simulations, weighing scale, feasibility and equity.
• Clean energy transitions: Understand how the energy system works, build technical competency, and analyse energy transitions through a systems lens.
• Sustainable and resilient food systems: Apply a systems lens to food and agriculture, and assess the practical steps and technologies needed to scale agroecology.
• Carbon dioxide removal, nature-based solutions and solar radiation management: Use in-depth case studies to critically evaluate the potential, risks and limits of these climate interventions, including nature-based carbon markets.

Assignments

Three required assignments cover:

• Climate risk assessment: Conduct a climate risk assessment for your country using an open-source tool, interpret the stakes, and present it to a decision-maker.
• Clean energy deep dive: Research and present a case study analysing a specific energy transition in a country, region or city of your choice.
• Personal skills and career mapping: Audit your skills, map them onto areas of climate work, and plan where you can have the greatest climate impact.

Tracks

The last four weeks involve ‘specialising’ in one of these tracks:

• Building a Corporate Sustainability Strategy
• Climate Action Planning for Cities and Communities 
• Renewable Energy Business and Finance
• Climate Communications
• Designing for Climate Impact in Tech and Engineering

Final project

Bring your skills together in a project on a real-world climate challenge of your choice, with guidance from faculty. You choose the theme, medium and approach, and you finish with a piece of work you can use to move forward in your career.

I found incredible value in learning alongside leaders from across sectors who are tackling some of today's most complex infrastructure and energy challenges. The programme strengthened my ability to connect policy, finance, technology, and implementation in ways that can expand affordable, reliable energy systems while meeting rapidly growing demand.”

Nicholas Glover, Vice President & Head of Build to Zero, Environmental Defense Fund, USA