Addressing climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions alone is expected to be insufficient to overcome the environmental and social challenges of global warming. Both climate change mitigation and adaptation measures will be needed for businesses and communities to cope with climate change. Mitigation is distinct from adaptation. In this context, mitigation describes actions that decrease the intensity of the greenhouse effect caused by emissions to reduce the potential effects of climate change.

Module 1: Introduction to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

• Introduction
• Common terms and concepts in climate change
• Weather and Climate
• Hazard Events
• Causes of climate change
• Climate Change one of Africa’s biggest issues
• A quick check of your understanding on climate change based on the above video;
• Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect
• Global anthropogenic GHG emissions by gas and sector
• Effects of Global Warming
• What is Climate Change? Explore the Causes of Climate Change
• A Quick Check Quiz based on your understanding of the video above
• Relationship Between Climate Change and Global Public Health
• Module 1 Quiz

Module 2: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• Overview and concept of GHG
• IPCC’s Climate Change Report Explained
• A Quick Check Quiz based on your understanding of the video above
• Greenhouse Effect
• Types of Greenhouse Gases (GHG)
• Causes and Effects of Climate Change | National Geographic
• A Quick Check Quiz based on your understanding of the video above
• Sources of GHG Emission
• Industry
• Industrial Sector GHG emissions
• GHG Protocol Accounting and Reporting
• Scope 2: Electricity indirect GHG emissions
• 2.5. Module 2 Quiz

Module 3: GHG Estimation, Climate Change Impact and Vulnerability

• Identification and calculation of industrial GHG Emissions
• Scope of GHG emissions explained
• A Quick Check Quiz based on your understanding of the video above
• Select a calculation approach
• Roll-up GHG emissions data to corporate level
• GHG emission Estimation
• Climate Change Impact
• Climate Change Vulnerability
• Introduction to Vulnerability | Managing for a Changing Climate
• Introduction to Vulnerability | Managing for a Changing Climate
• Module 3 Quiz

Module 4: Climate Change Mitigation

• Concept of climate change mitigation
• Climate change mitigation strategy framework
• Internal carbon reduction
• External carbon reduction
• Climate change mitigation approaches
• Conventional mitigation technologies
• Renewable energy
• Nuclear power
• Fuel switch and efficiency gains
• Negative emissions technologies and techniques
• Bioenergy carbon capture and storage
• Afforestation and reforestation
• Soil carbon sequestration
• Ocean fertilization
• Ocean alkalinity enhancement
• Alternative negative emissions utilization and storage
• Stratospheric aerosol injection
• Space‑based mirrors
• Module 4 Quiz

Module 5: Climate Adaptation

• Concept of Climate Change Adaptation
• Need for Climate Change Adaptation
• Climate Change Adaptation Options
• Service Options
• Social Options
• Institutional Options
• Module 5 Quiz

Module 6: Community-Based Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience

• Concept of Community-Based Adaptation
• Framework for Community-Based Climate change adaptation
• Component Effective adaptation strategy
• Climate resilient livelihoods
• Climate Smart disaster risk reduction
• Enhancing adaptive capacity
• Categories of Adaptation Measures
• Approach to assessing adaptation actions
• Module 6 Quiz
• Course Evaluation Form
• Final Assignment