UNEP Certificate Course on Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience 2025

The UNEP Certificate Course on Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience 2025 is currently accepting applications.

In this online course, UNEP and environmental experts from around the world will answer questions about nature-based solutions, aimed at planners, policymakers, engineers, businesses, and youth.

This is an opportunity for you to join a community of students and environmentalists.

The course begins with the “why” and then introduces nature-based solutions for disaster and climate resilience, as well as the benefits and potential opportunities.

Then, specific modules aimed at different target audiences will focus on the practical application of nature-based solutions, the “how”.

Who is the course aimed at? Nature-based solutions are relevant to everyone, and we all benefit from seeing them applied. With this in mind, the course is designed to be accessible to everyone, no matter your background.

Course Content

Unit 1: Why is this topic relevant for me?
Unit 2: What are Nature-based Solutions for disaster and climate resilience?
Unit 3: Nature-based Solutions applied to pressing challenges: urbanization, coastal development, and drylands expansion
Unit 4: Inclusive Action: The importance of youth, communities and indigenous people in Nature-based Solutions
Unit 5: From policy to practice
Unit 6: The business case for Nature-based Solutions
Unit 7: Time for action!

Benefits

Learn how to apply Nature-based Solutions in enhancing resilience to disasters and climate change, whether you are a youth leader, practitioner, policy maker, engineer or business owner.
Learn about how human activities are interlinked with ecological systems and main tools and approaches for applying Nature-based Solutions to reducing disaster and climate risks.
Learn how policy makers are including nature as a solution in policy processes for reducing disaster and climate risks.
Learn how practitioners are applying nature-based solutions for reducing risks of natural hazards by investing in restoration and protection.
Learn about green infrastructure and designing with nature as a viable complement to grey engineered protection structures for reducing impacts of disaster events.
Learn what young people and teachers, policy makers, practitioners, businesses and engineers can do to get involved in our race against the climate emergency.

Eligibility

The course is open for anyone and can be beneficial for the following target groups:

Practitioners: Disaster risk reduction & climate change experts, environmental managers, NGOs, and local government.
Policy makers: Decision makers at international, national, and local levels.
Engineers & Urban planners: Including architects, geographers and urban designers.
Businesses: Including banking, insurance, and Corporate Social Responsibility managers.
Youth and Educators: Parents, teachers, students.

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