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Inclusive Growth: Climate Change (edX)

Inclusive Growth: Climate Change (edX)

Learn about climate change and its role as a major threat to the sustainability and inclusiveness of our societies. This course addresses the nature of climate change and its role as a major threat to the sustainability and inclusiveness of our societies. It examines climate change and how it impacts our lives and introduces policies to help counter its effects.

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These policy recommendations and solutions include mitigation efforts, adaptation to inevitable changes that will occur (even with mitigation), and how to make these reforms inclusive.

What you'll learn

  • Define climate change and the societal, economic, and environmental risks posed at the country level and at the global level
  • Outline the key policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change
  • Design a reform strategy to address climate change, considering country-specific circumstances and ensuring the reforms are inclusive
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