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Children and Climate Change Course 2025 – 2-Hour Free Online Training

Discover the Children and Climate Change Course from UN CC:e-Learn: a two-hour, self-paced online learning experience designed to deepen your understanding of how climate change impacts children and youth around the world. The course combines interactive lessons, real-life examples, and multimedia resources to make complex issues accessible and actionable. Learners explore practical strategies to build […]

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Discover the Children and Climate Change Course from UN CC:e-Learn: a two-hour, self-paced online learning experience designed to deepen your understanding of how climate change impacts children and youth around the world. The course combines interactive lessons, real-life examples, and multimedia resources to make complex issues accessible and actionable. Learners explore practical strategies to build young people resilience, promote inclusive climate policies, and empower young people as agents of change — all with an optional USD 10 certificate of completion.

What the Children and Climate Change Course Offers

The Children and Climate Change Course from UN CC:Learn is designed to help learners understand how climate change impacts minors and youth, and how building resilience and reduction of greenhouse gases benefit people of all ages. unccelearn.org+1 This short online module (approximately 2 hours) is available in English, Spanish, French and Vietnamese and has already engaged over 28,000 learners worldwide. unccelearn.org+1

Important: a small fee now applies for downloading certificates of completion (USD 10), while the course content remains free and accessible to all. unccelearn.org

Why This Course Is Crucial

Climate change poses one of the greatest threats to child population survival, development, and overall wellbeing. According to data from unccelearn.org, nearly one billion youth live in countries classified as extremely high risk due to rising temperatures, floods, droughts, and pollution. These crises not only endanger their physical health but also disrupt education, limit access to nutrition and clean water, and heighten inequalities.

The Children and Climate Change Course helps learners understand these multidimensional challenges while exploring practical, child-centred solutions such as climate-resilient schools, sustainable healthcare systems, inclusive disaster preparedness, and community-based adaptation. By linking theory with real examples, the course empowers participants to advocate for policies that protect and amplify children’s rights in a warming world.

What You Will Learn

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

Explain how climate change affects children’s lives. unccelearn.org
Describe how climate resilience and mitigation measures benefit youth. uncclearn.org
Illustrate key instruments and good practices for empowering children to act on climate change. unccelearn.org
Identify opportunities to protect child population rights in a changing climate.

The module is structured into five lessons:

The Impact of Climate Change on Kids
Strengthening Kids Resilience to Climate Change
The Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation for Youth
Empowering Children to Act on Climate Change through Education
A Climate Change Agenda for Children unccelearn.org+1

Who Should Take This Course

The course is ideal for a wide range of learners, including:

Youth and students of all ages
Civil servants in ministries, provincial departments and local authorities working within climate-change or child/youth development fields
Private sector managers and practitioners active in climate-change or children’s protection work
School directors, faculty members, teachers, researchers
The general public with interest in children, climate and sustainability Unitar

How It Works & Certificate Details

This self-paced course is available year-round through UN CC:e-Learn. uncclearn.org Learners download the syllabus, enrol via login, and complete the quiz. Course access remains free; the certificate requires payment of USD 10. unccelearn.org

You will need to score at least 70% on the final quiz (you have up to three attempts) to qualify for the certificate. Upon passing and payment, you can download the official certificate in the “Certification” tab. uncclearn.org+1

Apply / Enrol here: Children and Climate Change – UN CC:e-Learn

For more details, visit the official course page:
🔗 Children and Climate Change Course – UN CC:e-Learn unccelearn.org

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