This free online course introduces a range of today’s critical environmental issues and discusses ways to address them. This course aims to give you an understanding of the most pressing environmental issues that we are facing. We will cover resource depletion, waste, pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss. You will discover that all of these issues are interrelated so taking action to resolve one will affect the others. This course delves into the causes of environmental issues and explains what will happen if we do not take action.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 195448 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Identify some of the most pressing environmental issues we are facing • Describe how we are depleting natural resources and failing to manage waste • Outline the causes of climate breakdown, loss of biodiversity and pollution • Discuss the relationships between the issues listed and recognise the impact they are already having on humans and the world • Recognise the additional impacts environmental issues will have in the future if we fail to prevent further harm, including sea-level rise, desertification, human migration and extinction of many more species • Recall appropriate actions to reduce some of the listed additional impacts |
| Course Code | 4459 |
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