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Channel: edX · 2016 · Education

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Investigate global climate change policies and learn the essential skills organisations need to manage their emissions and potential compliance obligations into the future.

Take this course free on edX: https://www.edx.org/course/essential-tools-low-carbon-economy-uqx-carbon101x#!

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Want to be a key player in transitioning organisations to the low carbon economy?

This course will equip you with the knowledge and essential skills to manage the risks and opportunities of transitioning to the low carbon economy. Adopting the role of a key employee in a fictitious company, you will learn about different policy responses to climate change, how to measure your organisation’s carbon footprint, undertake a carbon abatement project appraisal, and how to participate in an emissions trading scheme.

This interactive course incorporates videos, expert insights, real-world case studies, skills-based practical exercises and scenario-based problem solving to teach you the essential skills that organisations are looking for in order to manage their emissions and potential compliance obligations into the future.

Unique prize opportunity! Throughout the course, participants will earn points for how effectively they measure and manage their fictional company’s greenhouse gas emissions. At the end of the course, top-scoring students will be sent a prize from The University of Queensland's Carbon101x team!

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Why climate change is a public policy issue and what types of policies exist to address it
How these public policies work to encourage adaptation to and mitigation of climate change
The benefits of carbon emissions management
How to measure the emissions of an organisation using carbon footprinting
Carbon abatement project and financial appraisal using Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACC)
The different compliance options an organisation has under an emissions trading scheme

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