Food waste is a serious problem that greatly contributes to the climate crisis. How can you or your business prevent food from being thrown away? Unpack this and many other questions in our new Food Waste Prevention e-course, jointly developed with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. Available in English and Portuguese.

How can countries address the growing plastic waste problem?Our new e-course provides you with the answers

Plastic waste is everywhere around us, from the streets to the oceans, damaging both the environment and human health. Tackling it has never been so important. Our new Plastic Waste and the Basel Convention e-course helps you understand this issue while explaining the mechanisms in place trying to address it. Learn more.

Learn more about persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from our new e-course

What are persistent organic pollutants (POPs)? Where can they be found? Why are they hazardous? The new National Implementation Plans and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants e-course unravels these questions for you. Find out more.

New affiliated e-course on the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution

Air pollution has been damaging people's health and contributing to environmental degradation for a long time. This new affiliated e-course explains the Air Convention and its Protocols and lays out the current efforts by UNECE and its member states to address this issue. Learn more. Also available in Russian.

More from UN CC:Learn

Ramping up climate change education: UN CC:Learn has entered its fifth implementation phase with the goal of strengthening its work around four key pillars. Read more.

Putting gender at the core: UN CC:Learn took part in a week-long training on gender and climate change that will help shape the programme's activities moving forward. Find out more.

UNCC:Learn @ The GreenTech Festival: In June 2022, UN CC:Learn was invited to attend the GreenTech Festival, a Berlin-based event hosted by former Formula 1 Champion Nico Rosberg, to see how the corporate world is preparing its shift towards greener business models. Get a glimpse of it.

UN CC:Learn @ SB56: The SB56 took place in June 2022 and UN CC:Learn was there to advance the climate change education agenda along with other UN partners. Read more. 

Enhancing knowledge in the Asia-Pacific region: Two-day workshop trained  100 people on the interlinkages of gender equality, human rights, climate action and renewable energy. Learn more about it.

Empowering teachers: UN CC:Learn organised an online lab as part of the World Food Forum event series. The UN CC:Learn Lab for Teachers brought together 85 teachers from across the globe to discuss the importance of promoting climate change in schools. Find out more about the Lab.

Over 200,000 certificates have been issued from our e-learning platform!

Thanks to your support, we have reached another important milestone: the issuance of the 200,000th certificate of course completion from our e-learning platform. To mark this achievement, we're collecting climate stories from our alumni to select the 2022 UN CC:Learn Champions. Submit your climate story today!

Climate Classroom @ NDC Partnership Youth Engagement Forum

How can we shift towards greener and more sustainable societies? Having the right knowledge and skills is key to making it happen. This edition of the Climate Classroom at the NDC Partnership Youth Engagement Forum will provide an overview of several free UN learning resources that introduce climate finance, green economy, as well as other climate-related topics. Register for the sessions on 21 July 2022 and 28 July 2022. 

 One Ocean Learn: the new knowledge portal that's improving the way that ocean knowledge is created and shared

One Ocean Learn (OOL) is an online platform which aims to support global capacity building by translating ocean knowledge into action-oriented learning for everyone, from enthusiasts and activists to policymakers and researchers. OLL was jointly developed by One Ocean Hub and UNITAR, with support from UK Research and Innovation. Follow OOL on Twitterand LinkedIn.

About UN CC:Learn

UN CC:Learn is a partnership of more than 30 multilateral organizations supporting countries to design and implement systematic, recurrent and results-oriented climate change learning. Through its engagement, UN CC:Learn contributes to the implementation of Article 6 of the UNFCCC on training, education and public awareness-raising, and the 2012-2020 Doha Work Programme. Funding is provided by the Swiss Government and UN partners. The Secretariat for UN CC:Learn is hosted by the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).

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