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Climate · Nature · Sustainability

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Forests, land and restoration

Learn about ecosystems, tree-based farming and the decisions behind restoration projects.

An African farmer walks between straight young rows of fruit trees and intercropped vegetables, mature shade trees bordering the farm, clearly visible tree-and-crop arrangement and healthy soil, welcoming practical agrofCourse

University of Florida

IntermediateAbout 15 hours
Coursera
Expansive aerial view of a lush tropical forest meeting a visibly restored patchwork hillside with young planted trees and one narrow footpath; a small unbranded ranger shelter at the edgeCourse

Yale University

BeginnerAbout 21 hours
Coursera
Close environmental field photograph: a Nigerian female researcher measures the circumference of a mature shade tree with an unmarked measuring tape in a cocoa agroforestry plot, soil sampling corer rests nearby, dark baCourse

University of Florida

IntermediateAbout 5 hours
Coursera
A wide high viewpoint of a productive tropical multistrata agroforestry landscape: palms and tall shade trees above banana and cocoa, with livestock quietly grazing a separate tree-lined pasture below, coherent single loCourse

University of Florida

IntermediateAbout 7 hours
Coursera
Close-up photograph of a farmer's dark-skinned hands holding a clean soil profile with fine roots and rich crumb structure, a young tree sapling and mulch ring in soft focus behind, practical plant nutrition and soil manCourse

University of Florida

IntermediateAbout 7 hours
Coursera
A sunlit agroforestry harvest scene focused on a woven basket of diverse fruit and vegetables under flowering trees with bees visible around blossoms, a farm worker gently picking fruit in background, food diversity and Course

University of Florida

IntermediateAbout 5 hours
Coursera
A restoration enterprise site meeting at the edge of a small tree nursery: two African business partners examine a physical scale model of a restored watershed on a simple outdoor table; trays of saplings and terraced baCourse

Erasmus University Rotterdam

BeginnerAbout 26 hours
Coursera
Panoramic educational landscape of an African demonstration farm where a curved line of mature trees shelters healthy crops, goats browse a separate shaded paddock and a small nursery sits foreground, comprehensive agrofCourse series

University of Florida

IntermediatePacing on provider website
Coursera

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Africa in focus

Start with the challenges
closer to home.

Explore courses that look directly at climate adaptation and African cities, alongside wider learning about development, land and energy.

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Illustration of an African city planner reviewing flood adaptation

Illustration of practical climate planning in an African city.

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Climate, communities and Africa

Two Africa-focused courses, plus courses with relevant African material.

An African dryland farming community installing semicircular earth bunds and small rainwater catchments around young drought-resistant trees, cracked-to-restored soil visible, water tank on horizon, three adults working Course

University of Cape Town

BeginnerAbout 19 hoursAfrica focus
Coursera
An urban planner overlooking a Lagos-inspired canal-side neighbourhood with raised pedestrian walkways, cleaned drainage and planted flood-retention areas, she holds an unlabelled physical street plan, cloudy rainy-seasoCourse

United Cities and Local Governments of Africa

IntermediateAbout 23 hoursAfrica focus
Coursera
A Ghanaian coastal field scientist beside a simple weather station and rain gauge, looking across a beach with an eroding shoreline toward a newly planted protective dune strip, overcast bright morning, landscape focus, Course

The World Bank Group

BeginnerAbout 16 hours
Coursera
A rural Senegalese village gathering around a modest community solar microgrid battery hut, simple homes and dry-season landscape, an engineer showing residents the installation without any readable labels, welcoming docCourse

École normale supérieure

IntermediateAbout 29 hours
Coursera
A Nigerian manufacturing manager in a clean factory aisle discussing material efficiency with a female safety officer; visible water reuse pipes and sorted reusable materials, discreet PPE, human governance and workplaceCourse

IMD - International Institute for Management Development

BeginnerAbout 12 hours
Coursera

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Carbon, economics and finance

Understand carbon markets, climate policy and the financial choices around them.

A climate policy workshop table from low oblique angle: economist's hands weigh two small physical models, a smokestack and a clean energy installation, on a simple brass balance scale; a large city with light haze beyonCourse

EDHEC Business School

BeginnerAbout 10 hours
Coursera
A clear conceptual editorial photograph of a river catchment where a small clean factory, wetland and irrigated fields share water; an environmental economist in foreground on a riverbank compares water sample jars on a Course

University of Michigan

BeginnerAbout 18 hours
Coursera
A climate-risk analyst's desk by a rain-streaked window overlooking a flood-prone urban waterfront; on the desk a small physical building model, transparent flood-height block and plain financial risk folders, one profesCourse

EDHEC Business School

BeginnerAbout 7 hours
Coursera
A quiet sustainable investment desk by a large window: Black African financial analyst comparing a plain physical wind-farm architectural model and a modest stack of unbranded financial folders, real wind turbines visiblCourse

Erasmus University Rotterdam

IntermediateAbout 17 hours
Coursera
A sustainable-investing analyst reviewing a small physical model of a resilient apartment block beside a solar infrastructure model at a tidy window desk, distant urban park and rain clouds, African professional, portfolCourse series

EDHEC Business School

BeginnerPacing on provider website
Coursera
A business leader facilitates a circular product redesign meeting in a light-filled African design studio; a disassembled office chair and reusable components form the centre of the table, four adults discuss physical paCourse

University of Colorado Boulder

IntermediateAbout 25 hours
Coursera
Macro editorial still life of green infrastructure finance: a glass solar-panel sample, small wind-turbine model and a row of plain blue-grey bond folders on an elegant timber desk, hands carefully connecting them with tCourse

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

BeginnerAbout 15 hours
Coursera

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Find a starting point

What brings you here?

You can explore a new field or build on the work you already do.

I am starting out

Build your understanding.

Start with climate, sustainability and how natural systems work.

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I work on projects

Find practical knowledge.

Explore land, maps, carbon, energy and the economics behind projects.

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I work with a team

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Mapping, energy and climate data

Courses for people who want to understand the tools and the systems behind them.

Top-down close photograph of a paper topographic map without labels, a compass, transparent contour overlay and a surveyor's hand aligning a ruler; corner of a laptop shows only a coloured land-use map without wordsCourse

University of California, Davis

BeginnerAbout 21 hours
Coursera
A precise survey desk composition with layered transparent map sheets showing roads, rivers and parcels without labels, small GNSS receiver and database storage drive connected to laptop with unlabelled spatial layers, cCourse

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

BeginnerAbout 20 hours
Coursera
A geospatial specialist at a field workstation beside a hillside, rugged laptop showing original unlabelled raster terrain and vector parcel layers, GNSS receiver and tripod next to desk, thoughtful African woman in pracCourse

L&T EduTech

AdvancedAbout 20 hours
Coursera
Night-to-dusk research studio with a large physical 3D city model lit by subtle dots representing spatial observations, data scientist studying it beside a screen displaying an original unlabelled heatmap, realistic photCourse

Yonsei University

IntermediateAbout 12 hours
Coursera
Close low-angle photograph of an African electrical trainee holding a small unbranded photovoltaic demonstration panel angled toward sunlight, visible safe cable connection to a simple lamp that is lit, rooftop training Course

The State University of New York

BeginnerAbout 15 hours
Coursera
Dramatic but natural close wide-angle view from the base of a wind turbine with blade and nacelle above, a tiny maintenance engineer beside a clearly scaled tower entrance and rolling grassy landscape behind, morning bluCourse

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

MixedAbout 34 hours
Coursera
An African sustainability analyst at a bright office desk with an abstract unlettered neural-network graphic on a monitor and physical samples of recycled materials, colleague points to a plain energy sensor reading deviCourse

Rutgers the State University of New Jersey

IntermediateAbout 9 hours
Coursera
A field ecologist operates an unbranded quadcopter above a mangrove estuary from a small stable boardwalk, drone clearly visible against sky at plausible distance, tablet screen blank reflective, African coastal context,Course

Duke University

BeginnerAbout 12 hours
Coursera

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Learning for organisations

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a common starting point.

Identify the skills your team needs, then build a learning plan around the work ahead.

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ESG, accounting and reporting
Land, restoration and community projects
Energy, data and technical practice
Procurement, packaging and materials
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