CB80463: Climate Change and Biodiversity

The aim of this module is to equip students with skills that help them strengthen their observational and critical thinking about the inter-links between living organisms and their surrounding environment with a focus on climate change, its causes and impacts on biodiversity, ecosystems and humans. Students will also learn how to mitigate and adapt to climate change and the role of research in achieving sustainable mitigation and adaptation. 

Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to

demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

1. Climate change: the science of climate change, and the body of evidence
2. Impacts of climate change globally and locally
3. Impacts of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
4. Adaptation and mitigation strategies
5. Climate resilience
6. Global policies and multilateral agreements on Climate change and Biodiversity
7. Local policies and strategies on climate change and Biodiversity
8. Research agenda for monitoring biodiversity and climate change