Adapting to climate change: 5-day intensive course

Who: Individuals and organisations that need to address climate change in their operations and planning (private sector, NGOs, governments, international/multilateral organisations).

Cost: £1200 (excludes accommodation; includes lunches, tea, coffee, 1 evening meal, access to all course materials, certificate of completion). £225 for Day 1 only (science, policy and adaptation overview).

Please register here.

Overview

This new 5-day course is aimed at individuals or organisations that need to integrate climate change adaptation into their day-to-day activities and operations. The course provides participants with an understanding of climate science and policy at the global level, with particular reference to the Paris Agreement and its goals (and our prospects of achieving them and consequences if we don’t), and furnishes them with practical skills for mainstreaming or integrating climate change adaptation into their work. It provides an overview of current adaptation thinking and practice, and how adaptation relates to concepts such as risk, resilience, vulnerability and transformation.

Course content

This course combines and updates the content of our previous 3-day course on mainstreaming adaptation and our 2-day course on adaptation Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), and replaces these courses from 2019.

The course takes a pragmatic approach to adaptation, mainstreaming and its relation to development, and highlights some of the challenges and pitfalls of the mainstreaming approach.

Trainer

The course will be delivered by Garama’s Director, Dr Nick Brooks, who has designed and delivered the previous courses on adaptation mainstreaming and M&E. Nick has a background in climate science, and has worked on issues related to adaptation since 2001, as both an academic researcher (from 2001-2005) and a consultant (from 2005 onwards), establishing Garama in 2012. He has worked with donor and recipient governments (including the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, European Commission, Cambodia and Mozambique), international organisations (including the World Bank, African Development Bank and UNDP), research bodies (including the Universities of East Anglia and Oxford, IIED) and the private sector (principally with implementers of development programmes), focusing on capacity building, training, mainstreaming, risk assessment and M&E for adaptation.

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