Topic 2a - Climate Resilience
Climate change is one of humanity's most pressing societal issues; it is a major development challenge with far-reaching global implications that affect everyone, not just a few countries. Its effects on socioeconomic systems and vulnerable people put increasing pressure on developing countries, jeopardising progress toward the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Climate resilience – the ability to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, or recover from climate change in a timely and efficient manner – has therefore emerged as an important framework for policy and programme development.
Understanding the implications of the World Bank's actions, as well as those of their clients, is critical, especially given how quickly things are changing. As a result, in order to make real-time decisions, the World Bank now requires real-time data. You can't exclusively rely on historical data or extrapolate from what you've learned over the last few decades; you have to be present in the moment and conduct real-time analysis.
Earth Observation is important for modelling and understanding how climate change will affect regions, agricultural practises, livelihoods, and populations around the world, and it has a huge potential to inform and facilitate climate resilient development. Global climate research is made possible by EO data, which provides large amounts of timely and accurate information about the Earth's atmosphere, landmasses, and oceans. When combined with data about our society, this information can paint a very powerful picture of climate risks and resilience-building opportunities.
In this film, we hear from leading experts at the World Bank on how Earth Observation is central to their Climate Resilience programmes.
Climate Resilience tools
- The World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal - a one-stop shop for global, regional, and country-level climate data and information.
Featured Educators:
- Ana Bucher, World Bank
- Erick Fernandes, (Formerly World Bank)
- Kanta Kumari Rigaud, World Bank
- Juergen Voegele, World Bank
- Anna Wellenstein, World Bank
ESA Climate from Space - Carbon Dioxide
ESA Climate from Space - Methane
MOOC topics
In this MOOC, each topic is introduced through a video with supporting text.
We have also provided a range of optional further reading, links, and additional resources to help consolidate your learning. Here is a summary of what is available:
Topic links and resources
In each topic, once you have watched the video and read the accompanying text, you will find the following information:
- Optional Further Reading: These are external links to further reading and other resources.
- Featured Images and Featured Animations: Below the text on Topic video page, you will find the featured images and featured animations that were shown in the Topic video.
- Interactives: On the 'Interactives' tab on relevent topic pages, you will find some interactive data viewers (e.g. ESA's Climate from Space tool), allowing you to explore a selection of data relevant to the themes and topics in this MOOC.
Quizzes
- Quizzes: At the end of each Chapter (and in the middle of Chapter 2) there will be a quiz consisting of around five questions. These will help you consolidate your understanding of new topics, but are not scored. The feedback given with answers will also provide you with important information. These quizzes are informal and therefore there is no formal scoring.
Certificate
- Participation certificates are available for this MOOC, you can request one using the form at the end of the course.
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