UN CC:Learn

25/09/2026

On 31 July, a female tiger called Umit stepped out of a cage in southeastern 🇰🇿. Her name means "hope".

She is the first tiger to enter the wild there since 1948.

The photos travelled fast. The timeline behind them is slower:

1948: the last confirmed tiger in Kazakhstan.
2018: the country creates the Ile-Balkhash reserve, 450,000 hectares, and starts restoring the prey that tigers need.
2026: Umit walks out.

Eight years of habitat work for one release. Climate progress runs on the same clock, and two numbers from this summer show it.

🇮🇳 passed a milestone on that same date. As of 31 July, the country counted more than 300 GW of non-fossil power capacity, solar alone close to 165 GW. That is over 60% of its target for 2030, built through years of auctions, grid investment and policy.

🇧🇷 reported the other kind of progress. Amazon deforestation alerts fell 37% in the 12 months to July, the lowest since the current satellite series began in 2015. Countries agreed at COP28 to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030, a step the UNFCCC says would cut about 14% of global emissions.

None of this happens by accident. It takes targets, finance, monitoring and rules, which is what governments will negotiate at the Biodiversity COP, in Yerevan from 19 October, and at the Climate COP, in Antalya from 9 November.

Until Sunday 4 October, use the COPREADY discount code for 20% off your official UNITAR certificate. Start learning how to play your part in these important discussions and develop skills to excel in sustainability.

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24/09/2026

24/09/2026

23/09/2026

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How do almost 200 countries agree on a single decision? At the UN climate talks, they do it by consensus. No vote, no majority, just one text that nobody blocks.

This autumn brings two of these meetings. The UN Biodiversity Conference opens in Yerevan on 19 October with the first global review of the 23 biodiversity targets set for 2030. The UN Climate Change Conference follows in Antalya on 9 November, with a strong focus on putting commitments into practice.

So here is our challenge. In the next 12 days, learn enough to answer three questions:

🔵 How do almost 200 countries agree on a single decision?
🔵 Where do nature and climate meet?
🔵 Who pays for environmental action?

From today until 4 October, the code COPREADY gives you 20% off your UNITAR certificate for you to follow both conferences with confidence.

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07/09/2026

📋 You have one budget line and three requests on your desk.

A coastal district wants a seawall. The agriculture ministry wants drought-resistant seed for a region where the rains have shifted. The health ministry wants two hospitals retrofitted before the next flood season.

All three are justified. All three are urgent. You can fully fund one.

That trade-off is the heart of a National Adaptation Plan, the instrument countries use to decide what gets protected first, in what order, and with whose money.

Mastering National Adaptation Plans: from Start to Finish on UN CC:Learn walks through the full process in three modules: developing a NAP, implementing and reviewing it, and the part where most plans stall: financing it, from national budgets to international climate funds.

For the government officials, sector specialists, and technical experts doing this work — and for anyone who wants to understand how a country actually prepares for what's already arriving.

📍 Self-paced · ~3 hours · English & French
👉 https://unccelearn.org/course/view.php?id=141

This course offers digital certification. The National Adaptation Plan (NAPs) process was established under the Cancun Adaptation Framework (2010) in order to prepare countries for addressing climate risk in the medium term. The main objectives of the NAPs are to reduce vulnerability to climate chan...

02/09/2026

⚖️ In April 2024, a group of Swiss women in their seventies won a case at the European Court of Human Rights.

Their argument wasn't about emissions targets or degrees of warming. It was simpler: their government's weak climate action had failed to protect their health — and that failure violated their rights.

The court agreed. In that moment, climate stopped being only a matter of ambition and became a matter of obligation.

That shift is the subject of An Introduction to Climate Change and Human Rights on UN CC:Learn. Across seven modules it traces how climate impacts translate into rights — to food, water, shelter, health, life itself — how those rights entered climate negotiations and agreements, who carries the heaviest burden, and how courtrooms are becoming a place where duty-bearers are held to account.

For policymakers, lawyers, activists and students — and for anyone who has noticed that "ambition" and "obligation" are not the same word.

📍 Self-paced · ~3.5 hours · English
👉 https://unccelearn.org/course/view.php?id=136

Developed by the Paris Committee on Capacity-building with United Nations Human Rights and the UN Climate Change , funded by BMZ through GIZ.

This course offers digital certification. This course addresses how human rights obligations require the international community to take more ambitious action to mitigate emissions, to support adaptation that benefits persons, groups and peoples in vulnerable situations, and to address loss and dama...

01/09/2026

💰 Every national budget is a climate document. It just doesn't say so on the cover.

Taxes, subsidies, and public spending decide which fuels stay cheap, which industries expand, and which costs get quietly passed to everyone else. Long before any climate target is set, the tax code has already made its own choices.

The Green Fiscal Policy e-course is about reading — and rewriting — those choices. Five lessons of about 20 minutes each cover why fiscal policy is one of the most powerful climate levers governments hold, which instruments actually work, how reform survives contact with the real policy cycle, and what that looks like in energy, transport, and waste.

Written for people in government, business, and civil society. Or anyone who's ever wondered why the greener option so often costs more, and what it would take to change that.

📍 Self-paced · ~2 hours · English
👉 https://unccelearn.org/course/view.php?id=112

Developed under United Nations Partnership for Action on Green Economy bringing together UN Environment Programme International Labour Organization United Nations Development Programme - UNDP UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization and United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

This course offers digital certification. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many fragilities of our economies and deepened existing inequalities and imbalances. Green fiscal policies in particular can play a key role in countries’ recovery efforts by removing inefficiencies in public expenditures and ...

28/08/2026

🏙️ Cities cover a small fraction of the planet's surface — yet they generate more than 70% of global CO₂ emissions.�

They're also where the damage lands first: heatwaves trapped between concrete, floods overwhelming drains built for another century, sea levels creeping toward homes and power stations.

That double role — biggest driver, most exposed — is what makes cities the most consequential place to act. And it's the subject of Cities and Climate Change from UN CC:Learn, taken by 42,000+ learners worldwide. Across six short lessons it covers how climate change hits urban areas, why cities contribute so much, and how planners can build adaptation and mitigation into transport, housing, energy, and water, with real examples of cities already doing it.

For planners and city officials, certainly. But also for anyone who lives in a city and wonders what it will feel like in twenty years.

📍 Short course · ~2 hours · English, Spanish & French
�👉 https://unccelearn.org/course/view.php?id=21

This course offers digital certification. Join over 42,000 learners worldwide who have already taken this insightful course on cities and climate change. Explore how urban areas are both affected by and contribute to climate change and discover the transformative role cities can play in building a g...

27/08/2026

🌍What does it actually take to scale climate finance?

Discover it on the free 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 e-course, built by UNITAR and UNDP's Climate Finance Network.

We've just added a 5th module — Scaling Climate-Smart Public Investment Management — to the course!

Swipe through 👉 to see what's inside all 5 modules.

✅ Free & self-paced
✅ UN digital certificate available
✅ Already reached 2.4k learners in 180+ countries

Whether you work in a finance ministry, the private sector, or civil society, this course breaks down how climate finance actually moves, from sources and instruments, to public budgets, to project delivery on the ground.

Supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.

🔗 Learn more: https://unccelearn.org/course/view.php?id=205&page=overview