Climate Change and Environment Management Advanced Level

Climate change

Human-induced impacts of climate change 

Underlying causes of vulnerability – do we know enough?

Session 2: Presentation and Q&A

Impacts of climate projections on key sectors

The associated risks

Session 3: Round table discussion

Case study: Adaptation policies for the Brahmaputra river basin   

Working towards sustainable actions

Session 4: Presentation and Q&A 

Policy and its responses

Global adaptation efforts and policy response

Regional and sub-regional cooperation mechanisms

National plans and policies

Sectoral strategies

Session 5: Presentation and Q&A

Existing policies, and moving ahead in times of climate uncertainty

Sectoral policies

Cross-cutting issues

Transboundary cooperation

Online test: 20 marks (4 questions from each session)

Dr Nishikant Gupta’s decade long experience working on biodiversity, environmental sustainability and climate change in both LDC and MDC countries has enhanced resilient practices by bridging the science-policy-practice gap. He has developed and managed several projects across international organizations to strengthen ecosystem services, livelihoods, and holistic biodiversity conservation which directly feed into policy formulation. He has also initiated crucial interdisciplinary collaborations at various levels of governance and provided novel solutions which address major ecological and socio-economic challenges in Asia, Europe and Australia aided by 36 scientific publications and 44 diverse sets of knowledge products. He now aims to scale-up and scale-out climate adaptation solutions, understand vulnerabilities and opportunities and develop path-breaking policy documents to boost existing conservation programmes leading to long-term sustainability. 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishikant-gupta/

Email: guptanishikant20@gmail.com

Affiliation: Department of Geography and Environmental Management, the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, United Kingdom