Individual Course
Climate Leadership: Creating Change in Uncertain Times
Course Length
6 weeks
4–5 hours per week
Featuring faculty from:
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Addressing climate change requires leadership to both identify effective solutions and build the capacities needed to put them into practice. Rather than focusing on rapidly evolving questions in environmental science or climate policy, this course examines the enduring leadership challenges that shape progress across all climate-related issues. This course will teach you to work through disagreement, competing values, institutional barriers, emotional intensity, and questions of power as they relate to addressing climate change and its impacts.
Drawing on Harvard Kennedy School leadership frameworks and stories of climate practitioners across the globe, this course will help you navigate the human and adaptive dimensions of climate action. You will learn how to identify and express your call to climate leadership, navigate the complex dynamics of collective decision making, implement actions grounded in your community’s vision for the future, and create lasting change. You will leave being able to identify what’s holding back progress, collaborate across differences to identify shared solutions, and design a climate intervention grounded in your own context.
Wherever you work or lead, use this course to turn climate concern into focused, practical action.
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Scheduled Cohorts
Fixed start and end dates • Weekly deadlines
Harvard Online
Certificates:
- Individual Certificate
Industries:
- Government
- Energy
- Agribusiness
- Other Non-profit
- Learning Outcome
Navigate the human dimensions of climate leadership
- Learning Outcome
Build alignment across difference
- Learning Outcome
Design and advance meaningful climate action
- Learn from real case studies
- Do it on your own time
- Get a certificate, add it to your resume
- Be part of the Harvard Community
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Learners who have enrolled in at least one qualifying Harvard Online program can receive a 30% discount, automatically applied to the Program Fee upon time of payment.
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