Inclusive Growth - Climate Change

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Target Audience:
- Mid-level to senior officials involved in economic and strategic planning
- Officials monitoring and evaluating policy strategies for reducing poverty and inequality
- Officials promoting job creation
Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent experience

Purpose:
- Addresses the nature of climate change and its role as a major threat to the sustainability and inclusiveness of societies
- Examines how climate change impacts lives at country and global levels
- Introduces policies to counter climate change effects, including mitigation and adaptation
- Emphasizes designing reforms that are inclusive
Policy approaches covered:
- Mitigation efforts
- Adaptation to inevitable changes that will occur even with mitigation
- Making reforms inclusive

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

Define climate change and the societal, economic, and environmental risks posed at the country level and at the global level
Outline the key policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change
Design a reform strategy to address climate change, considering country-specific circumstances and ensuring the reforms are inclusive