The Paris Agreement on Climate Change as a Development Agenda

Course

Facilitated e-learning

UN Partner

United Nations System Staff College

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Length: 6 weeks
Effort: 12 hours
Language: English
Region: World
Venue: Online
Certificate: No
Price: 500 USD

The course will frame the climate change impact and action around five core cornerstones of 2030 Agenda: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership.

Sustainable Development Goals: Climate action
Subject: Climate change
Keywords: climate change; Paris Agreement; policy maker

About this course

The course will frame the climate change impact and action around five core cornerstones of 2030 Agenda: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership.

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Target audience

Development practitioners from the UN system, governments, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, civil society and academia.

Learning objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

explain key elements of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda, and the role of climate action in the broader context of sustainable development;
identify and articulate the interrelations and inter-dependencies between the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in five critical dimensions of the sustainable development: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership;
identify and articulate best practices to ensure coherence and mutual reinforcement between the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
explain existing tools and instruments to mainstream sustainable development and climate action into national development policies and planning.