Sustainability and Climate Change

Name: Sustainability and Climate Change
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Learn about sustainable development, environmental sustainability and climate change in this free online course.

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Learning Outcomes

Having completed this course, you will be able to:

Discuss the definition of sustainability and how it applies in the modern context
Identify and acquire the basic facility before the IPAT equation can be used
Examine the various patterns of human consumption
Define both "climate" and "weather" and explain how the two are related
Examine how to use the Celsius temperature scale to describe climate and weather
Discuss the role and mechanisms of the major controls on Earth's climate using the concepts of insolation, albedo and greenhouse gases
Identify and describe the mechanisms by which major external and internal changes to the climate (including solar output variation, volcanoes, biological processes, changes in glacial coverage, and meteorite impacts) operate
Examine the major ways in which carbon dioxide is both added to and removed from the atmosphere

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