Empowering Eco-Friendly Innovators: Nature-Based Solutions Courses
For those already involved in the world of nature-based entrepreneurship, you've witnessed firsthand the power of combining passion with purpose, and you've seen your efforts translate into tangible change. But in the ever-evolving landscape of sustainable business, staying at the forefront demands continuous learning and adaptation.
Discover the courses that can empower you to continue making a meaningful difference in the world while advancing your own expertise in this ever-evolving field.
Free Courses
1. Urban Rewilding: Restore your local ecosystem:
https://rewilding.academy/courses/urban-rewilding-restore-your-local-ecosystem/
In this urban rewilding course, you’ll learn how to make our cities more livable and sustainable. To address city-specific issues ranging from urban heat islands to human wellbeing, we must first change our minds. Instead of trying to control nature, we need to harness its powers; we must let nature do what it does best: grow.
Course Provider:
Wageningen University & Research in collaboration with the Rewilding Academy
2. Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience:
For years, experience and evidence on NBS from around the world have been growing. But many people – from policymakers to engineers and businesses – don't yet know how NBS can help them solve the challenges they’re facing from events like floods, heatwaves, or droughts. These events affect the lives of millions of people every year. The course is open to everyone who would like to deepen their knowledge of the application of NBS.
Course Provider:
European Union, Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction & United Nations Environment Programme
3. Monitoring forest and landscape restoration
https://elearning.fao.org/course/view.php?id=687
This course is designed for a range of stakeholders with an interest in forest and landscape restoration (FLR). This course has been developed to equip practitioners with the capacity to design, plan and implement monitoring systems for FLR interventions.
Course Providers:
Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations elearning Academy
4. Shifting Towards Water-Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainable Cities:
https://e-learning.unescap.org/thematicarea/detail?id=9
This interactive course assists regional policy makers and practitioners with proactive policy measures to achieve SDG readiness through the lenses of Water-Resilient Cities, providing an environment to create a sense of larger social well-being and happiness. Its structure follows key elements of the whole concept and lists its practical tools, viewing Water and Water Cycle at the core of Sustainable Development in an urban environment and its related challenges.
Course Provider:
United Nations ESCAP
5. Fundamentals of Making Small Farms Work:
https://www.richardperkins.co/get-started/
This free mini-course enables people to tackle four crucial elements and find the clarity and confidence to pursue their farming dreams.
Course Provider:
Richard Perkins
6. Finding the Money - Financing Climate Action:
https://www.unsdglearn.org/courses/finding-the-money-financing-climate-action/
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving the resilience and adaptive capacity of societies to the harmful impacts of climate change resulting from past emissions require significant financial resources. This tutorial provides an overview of what climate finance is and where countries access different sources of financing.
Course Provider:
United Nations Climate Change: Learn
Paid Courses
1. Introduction to Systems Thinking
https://rewilding.academy/courses/introduction-to-systems-thinking/
This course is an opportunity to build a global system of systems leaders who help their organisations discover meaningful missions that will transition our ways of living on the planet to become sustainable and resilient.
Course Providers:
Earth Chater International
2. Nature-based Solutions to Global Challenges Foundation Course
This course is designed to improve awareness and understanding of the science, policy, practice, financing and governance of nature-based solutions. This course is for current and future public servants and leaders from the private sector and civil society. It will provide participants with knowledge that will enhance future work on nature-based solutions.
Course Providers:
University of Oxford
3. The Soil Association's Agroforestry Online Learning Course:
This short online course is all about agroforestry and farm woodlands in practice, increasing your understanding of how to get started and giving you the confidence to take the first steps.
Course Providers:
Soil Association
4. Nature-Based Solutions for Water and Land Management:
https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/courses/short/water/nature-based-solutions-for-water-and-land-management
The course will illustrate how NbS can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals, either by themselves or in combination with other technologies or strategies. As the world shifts towards net zero, nature recovery and water security targets, being able to assess potential nature-based solutions in different contexts will become a key skill for all designers, regulators, consultants, academics, and NGOs involved in environmental studies.
Course Providers:
Cranfield University
5. Nature-Based Metropolitan Solutions:
https://online-learning.tudelft.nl/courses/nature-based-metropolitan-solutions/
Discover the potential benefits of nature-based solutions (NBS) in metropolitan areas and develop strategies for their implementation. This course will teach you about the design, construction, implementation and monitoring of nature-based solutions for urban ecosystems and the ecological coherence of sustainable cities. Constructing smart cities and metropolitan regions with nature-based ecosystems will secure a fair distribution of benefits from the renewed urban ecology.
Course Providers:
TUDelft