Climate Resilience Certificate for Professionals

This graduate certificate requires at least nine (9) credits to complete. This certificate can be completed over three semesters. You can also complete the certificate over a longer period of time with a schedule that works for you. Each four-week course is designed to stand alone so that you may take courses in any order. These online courses can be completed in approximately 8 hours per week.

• ES 5810A Climate Change: The Science, Uncertainty and Risk(1 credit, 4 weeks
  online) **
• ES-5820: Climate Impacts: Vulnerability and Adaptation Planning (1 credit,
  4 weeks online)
• ES-5830: Climate Impacts: Communication, Facilitation, and Stakeholder
  Capacity Building (1 credit, 4 weeks online)
• ES-6995: Climate Resilience Capstone (3-credits))

**If you have already taken or plan to take either ESC 5720 Earth Systems and Climate Change (3 credits) or ES 703 Global Environmental Change (3 credits) as an elective, then that course can be substituted for this particular degree requirement.

Elective Courses (3 Semester Credits)

Choose an elective course. See some of the available courses below:

• ES-5840: Business Resilience and Continuity (1 credit)
• ES-5850: Climate Response: Costs and Financing (1 credit)
• ES-5860: Climate Justice and Equitable Adaptation (1 credit)
• ES-5870: Climate Change:  Public Health (1 credit)
• ES-5750: Climate Migration (1 credit)
• ESP-5100: Policy Advocacy: Climate Change (1 credit)
• ES-5171: Justice, Equity, and Environment (2 credits)
• Exper 5750 Climate Migration
• ES-5740 Climate Adaptive Housing
• New courses are being added based on climate resilience practitioner needs

• Clearly communicate an understanding of current approaches to both mitigation and adaptation at various scales of implementation.
• Effectively demonstrate an understanding of the interrelation between climate change, water, food, and energy security.
• Provide evidence of the ability to structure a vulnerability analysis.
• Articulate preferred adaptation strategies for identified vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrate how to judge the effectiveness of a message generated by either the scientific community or the media that targets decision-makers and the public about the risks associated with climate change.
• Analyze the effectiveness of a stakeholder engagement process designed to have decision-makers respond to a specific vulnerability.
• The Climate Resilience Certificate is geared toward individuals working on the ground in resource management, hazard mitigation, community planning, business, and organizational operations, as well as other professionals seeking to strengthen their knowledge of how to implement climate resilience.
• At the conclusion of the certificate, participants will leave with specific knowledge and hands-on strategies to implement in their job and their communities.

• This 9-credit certificate is designed to meet the needs of busy, working professionals with:
• Courses are taught online so that you may complete weekly assignments on your own schedule.
• You can start the program in any semester – Spring, Summer, or Fall.
• The 1-credit courses can be taken in any order.
• The certificate may be completed on a part-time basis.
• Complete a capstone project of your choice. The capstone could be directly relevant to your agency, community, business, or organization.

…to Make Their Communities, Organizations, and Themselves Equitable, Climate Resilient and Regenerative

You can find them in,

• Municipal Governments
• Regional Governments & Agencies
• Federal Agencies
• B-Corps
• Businesses
• International Governments
• Private Consulting Firms
• Environmental NGO’s

In roles such as,

• Resource Manager
• City Planner
• State Environmental Bureau Manager
• Senior Environmental Scientist
• Director of Economic Development
• Director of Community Development
• Sustainability Consultant
• Climate Resilience Coordinator
• Environmental Non-Profit Director
• Transportation Director
• Director of Sustainable Housing
• Senior Managers for Green Buildings & GI
• Director of Land Conservation
• Entrepreneur

Analyze an environmental problem from a holistic perspective, including all parts and relationships.

Envision equitable, sustainable, and climate-resilient future states in contrast to the ‘do-nothing’ scenarios.

Construct various scenarios about how the problem might play out in the future.

Design, create, and implement strategies and solutions to create an equitable, sustainable, and climate-resilient future.

Collaborate and partner with researchers from other disciplines and stakeholders in various organizations: government, businesses, and civil society.