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SDG Academy Sustainable Development Courses & Certifications

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The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development

The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development programme that is brought to the learners through edX will be answering many frequently asked questions such as how the development of a child’s brain takes place at the age of 3, how surroundings become a factor in affecting the all-round development of a child and many other areas. The course consists of experienced and skilled faculty members from top institutions such as Harvard University, New York University, and UNICEF. The instructors from these institutes will make sure that the candidates understand how the study of sociology, neuroscience, anthropology, and others has influenced early child development. 

This course is for a tenure of eight weeks. In these eight weeks, the student will learn all about the growth of a child from its birth and will also learn to reach the goals for sustainable child development. The course will be provided in English language for all, and the candidate can complete his study by putting in 2 to 4 hours every week. This course is self-paced but the candidates will be getting free audit access to complete the course for a specified time. Whereas the verified track is payable and the access is also unlimited.

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8 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Sociology

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Sustainable Development: The Post-Capitalist Order

Global capitalism, while providing massive economic growth and wealth, has also put profits before the people. It has ensued toxic consumption practices and neglected our planet’s needs. The rightful answer to this is sustainable development, which focuses on starting a new world order to replace global capitalism’s vices, ensuring human well-being, development, and environmental security. If you want to learn about this, then edX’s Sustainable Development: The Post-Capitalist Order programme is perfect.

Curated by the SDG Academy, the Sustainable Development: The Post-Capitalist Order certification syllabus will teach you why countries and organisations globally are adopting sustainable development. Moreover, it will also explain how this concept is transforming the way we work, live, and govern our dear planet.  The curriculum discusses Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030 as the vital successors to the current laissez-faire-style capitalism. 

The eight-week Sustainable Development: The Post-Capitalist Order online course belongs to the ‘Economics and Finance’ purview, offering a free-to-learn curriculum. The programme is self-paced, and you can also purchase a verified certificate to show your recruiters if you have opted for the verified mode. In the free mode, you can audit the programme for a limited duration. 

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8 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Economics

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How to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable development has emerged as a big challenge in our world today. That is why the world's governments have adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Agreement. How to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals online course offers a thorough look at strategies for implementing Sustainable Development Goals.

The ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim for prosperity, world peace, ending poverty, and the planet's protection. This course on How to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals will reflect how these massive goals are achieved. You will also know the answers to questions like - what transformations are needed for success and why these SDGs were adopted in the first place.

How to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals certification course by edX covers a broad spectrum of topics such as policy development and financing. You will find out the roles of global partnerships, businesses, governments, and civil society in achieving the SDGs. The self-paced course can be taken by the learners in two different tracks; verified and audit. In the audit-free mode, the candidates will be given access to the course for a limited period. 

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7 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Environmental Science

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Work and Employment for a Sustainable Future

The world we live in today is financially fragile. Even with all the economic growth and improvements in the standard of work and labour, there still aren’t enough opportunities for people to find decent jobs. So much so that there are over 200 million unemployed people around the world. 

This situation is unsustainable in the long run. If this is an issue that concerns you, then the Work and Employment for a Sustainable Future course by edX is for you.

Take the Work and Employment for a Sustainable Future online course to learn about the state of work in the world and what we, as a society, need to do to ensure steady, sustainable, and inclusive economic development, from experts from Harvard University, International Labour Organisation, and other renowned institutions.

The Work and Employment for a Sustainable Future certification course is a six-week, intermediate-level programme in Economics & Finance, brought to you by the SDG Academy. You can watch the video lectures and learn at your own pace. English transcripts are also available, making it easier for you to follow along. There are two varied options to enrol in the course, namely, paid and free. In the free mode, the learners will get access to the course only for a limited duration. 

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6 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence Financial Management

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Measuring Sustainable Development

In this Measuring Sustainable Development certification course candidates will get the knowledge from experienced mentors for making the Sustainable Development Report about the importance of estimating progress on the SDGs, and how an instrument like the SDG Index and Dashboards helps policymakers and different partners settle on significant choices about their improvement needs. Candidates will be able to look at the changed kinds of information that can be utilized to quantify improvement progress and become familiar with the specialized advances expected to develop a record for the SDGs.

The candidates will be able to investigate local and city-level files and examine new ways to deal with SDG estimation and information based dynamic. The duration of the Measuring Sustainable Development program is 5 weeks where candidates can study at their own pace. The efforts needed by the candidate to complete this Measuring Sustainable Development training will be 1-3 hours of weekly efforts.

The candidate who will be having the upgraded Measuring Sustainable Development certification will be getting the verified institutional certificate from edX which will be a shareable certificate that can be added on LinkedIn and the candidate can also audit this course free of cost but for a limited time and also without any certificate of completion. Another track helps the candidates to complete the course which is not free but gives a completion certificate and unlimited access. This is called the verified track and can be found on the Edx platform.

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5 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Urban Planning

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Cities and the Challenge of Sustainable Development

1 Weeks
Beginner
Free

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