The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched its online course on ‘Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience’ on NetEase Online Open Courses, a leading online education platform in China.
The course aims to promote environmental education and raise awareness of Nature-based Solutions in China. It gives practical guidance on Nature-based Solutions, their wide relevance, and benefits. It is designed to be accessible to everyone regardless of the learner’s technical expertise.
Course participants will learn:
- How to apply Nature-based Solutions in enhancing resilience to disasters and climate change, whether they are youth leaders, practitioners, policy makers, engineers or business owners.
- How human activities are interlinked with ecological systems and main tools and approaches for applying Nature-based Solutions to reducing disaster and climate risks.
- How policy makers are including Nature as a solution in policy processes for reducing disaster and climate risks.
- How practitioners are applying Nature-based Solutions for reducing risks of natural hazards by investing in restoration and protection.
- About green infrastructure and designing with Nature as a viable complement to grey engineered protection structures for reducing impacts of disaster events.
- What young people, educators, policy makers, practitioners, businesses, and engineers can do to get involved in the race against the climate emergency.
NetEase enrolment page: https://open.163.com/newview/un?plid=MGMFA7FFI.
This course was developed by the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR) and the UNEP, with support from the European Commission.
