Climate extremes impact lives, livelihoods and public services. Floods can wipe out roads, heatwaves can push hospitals beyond capacity and wildfires can force entire neighbourhoods to evacuate.
Whether you work in infrastructure, health, planning, or policy, putting human rights at the centre of government decisions can make all the difference. It can improve outcomes for communities, reduce unintended harms and strengthen long-term climate resilience.
This course will equip you with practical tools and real-world examples. You’ll learn how to identify human rights risks, protect the most vulnerable and make fairer, future-proof climate-related decisions in your role.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Identify how an increasingly volatile climate impacts human rights in your policy area
Understand how environmental rights are protected in law and the legal pathways that can help address climate-induced rights issues in your work
Use human rights and ethical decision-making to support climate-resilient policy outcomes
Analyse community engagement strategies that support a human rights-based approach in your context
Investigate opportunities for personal and professional action to drive change