Interested in taking a single class? Some courses (designated by a 
below) may be open on a space-available basis to professionals who are not seeking the certificate. See Single-Course Enrollment for details.
Courses should be taken in the following order:
Autumn Course
Strategic Planning for Adaptation to Climate Change
Schedule: Oct. 6-Dec. 14, 2009; University of Washington; US $900, 3 CEUs.
Instructor: John R. Labadie
This class deals with the strategic planning needed to adapt to and minimize climate change. Topics include scenario building and decision making uncertainty; mapping climate change to major sectors; understanding the long-term lifecycle planning process; cost analysis; vulnerability and risk assessment; health, safety and equity issues; establishing a plan; group decision making; implementing the plan; and evaluating the effectiveness of the adaptation response.
How to sign up for individual enrollment in this course
Winter Course
Climate Literacy
Schedule: Jan. 4-Mar. 19, 2010; University of British Columbia; CN $900, 3 CEUs.
Instructors: Tom-Pierre Frappé Sénéclauze and Sarah Burch, Ph.D.
This course covers the basic concepts and terms needed to understand climate change. The class begins with the factors influencing climate including interactions among the atmosphere, oceans, solid earth, and biosphere. It continues with the causes of global warming (fossil fuel use, deforestation, agricultural practices, transportation, oxidation of organic carbons in the soil, etc.); greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide); physical carbon flows and their measurement; the carbon cycle; scientific uncertainty; climate modeling; the IPCC and UNFCC; the social impacts of climate change; and resources to understand climate variability.
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Spring Course
Climate Protection & Environmental Sustainability: The Business of Mitigating Climate Change
Schedule: Mar. 29-June 11, 2010; University of California, Irvine; US $900, 3 CEUs.
Instructors: Judy Yorke
This class provides the ability to assess the financial, environmental and business aspects of mitigation efforts and to create a strategic competitive advantage for an organization. It deals with assessing the greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory of an organization, measuring and tracking carbon footprints; identifying areas for mitigation including transportation, fuel usage, and facilities; the triple bottom line and the cost/benefit carbon analysis; economic incentives for increasing carbon sequestration and substitution; choosing the best tactics (e.g. renewable energy practice, carbon offsets, etc.) for mitigating carbon footprints; and evaluating the effectiveness of the program. This course and others will utilize case studies to illustrate concepts.
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Summer Course
Policy Responses and Options
Schedule: June 21-August 20, 2010; Northwestern University; US $900, 3 CEUs.
Instructor: David A. Dana
The class will look at government policy development and implementation in a variety of countries as well as the economics of climate change. It starts with a description of existing policies such as the Kyoto Accord; the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (ETS); the approaches of less developed nations such as China and India with the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate; and local approaches in the United States such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), and the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) in California. The course also deals with market-based and economy-wide options for reducing carbon in the atmosphere including carbon taxes, the carbon price, cap and trade programs, carbon offsets, and voluntary carbon markets as well as the use of renewable energy innovations, efficiency standards, and green forest practices.
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