FREE on-line 8 week course on… Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions

with University of Exeter

Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions. A FREE online course from the University of Exeter
Our very first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) begins on 13th January 2014 on the Open University’s FutureLearn platform, and lasts for eight weeks.

The free course is open to absolutely everybody – whether you are a student considering coming to university or are simply interested in learning more about climate change. The course is delivered entirely online covering a different topic each week.

Course content
‘Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions’ has been produced by eight leading academics from the University of Exeter – from mathematicians to marine biologists – and is led by Tim Lenton, Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science, working in partnership with the UK Met Office.

The aims of the course are to explain the science of climate change, the risks it poses, and the solutions available to reduce those risks. It sets contemporary human-caused climate change within the context of past nature climate variability, balancing the ‘bad news’ about climate change impacts on natural and human systems with the ‘good news’ about potential solutions. These solutions can help avoid the most dangerous climate changes and increase the resilience of societies and ecosystems to those climate changes that cannot be avoided.

This course is an exciting opportunity for you to examine climate change from a fresh new perspective.

Sign up now: Watch the trailer, find out more and enrol now at www.futurelearn.com/courses/climate-change-challenges-and-solutions   It takes minutes.But don’t forget, the course begins on 13th January 2014.