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Welcome to the introductory course on Climate change and Carbon Markets. Abhay, a Vice President at a green start-up and Srishti, carbon markets expert, will take you through the basic concepts of climate science and climate policy. They will also briefly introduce carbon markets and touch upon how start-ups and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSMEs) can benefit from participating in the Voluntary Carbon Market.

In this self-paced course, entrepreneurs will learn about voluntary carbon markets. It will take you about 1.5 hours to complete the basic course and you will earn a PDF certificate of participation once you complete all modules and an assessment with 80% score.

The course has been developed by the Indian chapter of the Global Carbon Markets project, commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

Who is this course for? This e-learning course is targeted at enterprises (start-ups, MSMEs, etc) that are interested in carbon markets and want to understand the potential benefits of their emission reduction activities.

What will you learn? After completing the basic  modules of this course, the participants will know:

  1. Science behind climate change
  2. Global and Indian emission trends
  3. Responding to climate change
  4. Global climate policy
  5. Carbon markets

How should you go through the course?  To receive the certificate of participation, we recommend to watch the video for each module carefully and complete the final assessments. Links to further readings are available within each module.  "Your Project" section of the course is optional.

Keywords: climate change, climate policy, carbon markets, voluntary carbon markets

Course contact person: Kundan Burnwal, Senior Advisor - Climate Change and Circular Economy, GIZ India; kundan.burnwal@giz.de

Content license: CC-BY-NC-ND

Course publication date: July, 14th, 2022

Course version: 1.0

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