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Microcredentials: Climate Adaptation Fundamentals
Duration: 2023-Ongoing The Climate Adaptation Fundamentals (CAF): Foundations Micro-credential is focused on supporting professionals developing competencies related to ability to integrate climate considerations, and specifically climate-adaptation considerations in their work. This micro-credential is designed for professionals and front-line workers in corporate, government, small-business, consulting services and non-governmental organisations who are new to understanding climate impacts
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Master of Arts in Climate Action Leadership
Duration: Ongoing The Master of Arts in Climate Action Leadership is an innovative graduate program that brings together students and professionals in an open learning environment to enhance their skills and capacities to lead climate change action efforts. The program uses an open pedagogical approach that engages students in generating new ideas and solutions to address climate
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Pearson Collaboration
Duration: 2021-Ongoing The Resilience By Design Lab (RbD) and Royal Roads Professional and Continuing Studies are joining with Pearson College UWC to offer two undergraduate courses to their students enrolled in the new Climate Action Leadership Diploma. The first of these courses provides a foundation in climate science, impacts and risks; the second bookends the program and
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Youth Designing Climate Resilience
Duration: 2021-2025 The Youth Designing Climate Resilience (YDCR) project, funded by a Social Science and Humanities Council Research Grant, included working on two parallel projects with youth, educators, and researchers with one team in British Columbia, Canada (BC), and another in Puerto Rico (PR). The project team included researchers and practitioners with deep expertise and
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CanAdapt
Duration: 2024-Ongoing CanAdapt is a collaboration between Resilience by Design Lab at Royal Roads University and the Climate Risk Institute. The groundwork has been laid to create a not-for-profit corporation designed to amplify and simplify public and private sector involvement in climate-informed workforce development through a Canadian Climate Adaptation Digital Portal that connects climate-action related education and training “suppliers” with
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Climate literacy in K-12 – its going to take a system
In a recent key note delivered to a group of 60 high school teachers as part of the Inspiring Climate Action in BC Secondary Schools, Brentwood Bay, I called for a systems approach to increasing climate education in K-12. Supporting youth to be climate action leaders is one of the best opportunities we have for
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Competencies for Adaptation to Climate Change: An interview with Dr. Robin Cox
(Previously posted on the Adaptation Learning Network Blog) Architecting the Competencies for Adaptation to Climate Change In October 21, 2019, Ibbaka published an interview between Steven Forth, Co-Founder of Ibbaka, and Dr. Robin Cox about the development of a competency model for Climate Change Adaptation. Here is an excerpt: “A competency model can connect communities,
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Introducing: The Climate Adaptation Competency Framework
(Previously posted on the Adaptation Learning Network Blog) Embedded Video Caption: Dr. Robin Cox, discusses the launch and use of the Climate Adaptation Competency Framework What are climate adaptation competencies, and how might we integrate them into our professions and the work we do? Adaptation Learning Network has been consulting with climate adaptation experts for the