Tackling Environmental Challenges for a Sustainable Future

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Course overview

Provider
Futurelearn
Course type
Free trial availiable
Deadline
Flexible
Duration
4 hours
Course author
David Rippin

Description

Discover how environmental research can inform how we respond to and solve the major global environmental issues of today.
Explore sustainable solutions to environmental issues like changing glaciers

Our energy use is unsustainable, we’re producing waste plastic that’s endangering oceans, and large parts of the natural world are disappearing. We know our planet is facing huge environmental challenges, but what are we doing to solve them?

On this course, you’ll discover how the environment is studied and learn how research at the University of York is helping to develop sustainable solutions to environmental problems.

The course will encourage you to reflect on the importance of a more sustainable future for our planet and will introduce you to the role the Sustainable Development Goals can play.

Tackling Environmental Challenges for a Sustainable Future
  • English language

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