Uniting for a Sustainable Future: An Introduction to Global Sustainability

Understand the importance of sustainable development

Sustainability is a difficult issue spanning many disciplines. To tackle its complexity, we must take a collaborative approach to understand how to approach sustainability on a global scale.

On this three-week course, you’ll uncover a cross-disciplinary perspective on sustainability. You’ll explore human impacts on the environment as well as examining the global challenges humans face.

You’ll delve into concepts of sustainability and sustainable development, including the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) as defined by the UN, to understand the importance of working towards a sustainable future.

Explore sustainable solutions to global challenges

You’ll explore the critical obstacles to achieving global sustainability, before examining how we can overcome them.

You’ll learn how you can use sustainable solutions to tackle a range of global challenges such as population, poverty, climate change, inequality, and more.

Learn how to live a more sustainable lifestyle

Throughout the course, you’ll explore examples of sustainability to help you learn how to apply sustainability principles to different areas of your life, which could also lead to inspiring change in those around you.

By the end of this course, you’ll have the knowledge and confidence to live more sustainably as well as an understanding of how to work together to respond to global challenges.

This course is designed for anyone interested in sustainability.

It is best suited for beginners who want more of an understanding of sustainability principles.

• Introduction to the course
• Introduction
• What we mean by sustainability
• Sustainable development
• Social equity and economic development
• Human impact
• Human impacts
• Negative human impacts
• Positive human impacts
• Sustainable examples
• Understanding sustainable solutions
• Enabling sustainable solutions
• Application of science - agriculture
• Application of science - urban life
• Conclusion