CLIM060 - Climate Change Perspectives for Project Managers

Course Description

Climate change is one of the biggest risks facing governments, businesses, societies, and ecosystems around the world. As a project manager, you occupy a critical role in the successful transition to a resilient, low-carbon world through effective direction of complex projects.

This course is designed to prepare you to add a climate change lens to your projects.

Course Outline

In this course, you will:

• Consider your perspective on climate change as a project manager
• Recognize valuable perspectives that others bring
• Learn when and how an interdisciplinary approach can enhance project management for a changing climate
• Consider the people affected by climate change and your project's response to it
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders, including neighbouring communities and Indigenous people
• Start applying your learning in a case study situation
• Integrate climate change implications with standard project management planning considerations
• Apply your learning to a real project you are managing, with feedback from peers
• Address challenges with securing organizational support for your climate change lens

Learner Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Consider diverse perspectives on climate change in project management
• Engage effectively with stakeholders affected by climate change
• Integrate climate change implications into project planning
• Apply a climate change lens to real projects with peer feedback
• Overcome challenges in securing organizational support for climate-focused project management

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

• Climate Adaptation Fundamentals Micro-credential : Elective Courses