Certificate in Decision Making for Climate Change UBC Continuing Studies Centre for Sustainability UPCEA 2011 1 CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY | UBC CONTINUING STUDIES Decision Making for Climate Change Multi-University Partnership for 100% Online Professional Development UPCEA 2011 “Doing What Matters” Toronto, Canada April 7, 2011 William Koty Director, Centre for Sustainability UBC Continuing Studies CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY | UBC CONTINUING STUDIES About this talk Program Certificate in Decision Making for Climate Change Jointly offered 100% online by: University of Washington Professional and Continuing Education University of California Irvine Extension Northwestern University School Continuing Studies University of British Columbia Continuing Studies Main topics of this talk Climate change as an educational domain Managing a collaboration Curriculum Administration
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Certificate in Decision Making for Climate Change UBC Continuing Studies Centre for Sustainability
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Decision Making for Climate Change
Multi-University Partnership for 100% Online Professional Development
UPCEA 2011 “Doing What Matters”Toronto, CanadaApril 7, 2011
William KotyDirector, Centre for SustainabilityUBC Continuing Studies
CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY | UBC CONTINUING STUDIES
About this talk
� Program
� Certificate in Decision Making for Climate Change
� Jointly offered 100% online by:
� University of Washington Professional and Continuing Education
� University of California Irvine Extension
� Northwestern University School Continuing Studies
� University of British Columbia Continuing Studies
� Main topics of this talk
� Climate change as an educational domain
� Managing a collaboration
� Curriculum
� Administration
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� Winter 2008: Initial proposal
� David Szatmary, Vice Provost, University of Washington Educational Outreach
� July 2008: Partners committed
� Northwestern
� UC – Irvine
� UBC
� UW
� Fall 2008: Program design finalized
� Spring 2009: Program launch
� Fall 2009: First cohort of 25 students
� Spring 2010: Second cohort 30 students
� Fall 2010: 85 students had been accepted into the program
Decision Making for Climate Change | A brief history
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Is global warming really man made?
Am I going to look like a schmuck?
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� US National Academy of Science
http://dels.nas.edu/Climate/Reports-
Academies-Findings
� American Association for the Advancement of
Science
http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/climat
e_change
� UK Royal Society Climate Change
http://royalsociety.org/Energy-Environment-
and-Climate-Change
� US Government's Global Change Research
Program http://www.globalchange.gov
� European Union Climate Change
http://ec.europa.eu/clima/news/index_en.htm
� NASA Global Climate Change
http://climate.nasa.gov
� Chinese Government Climate Change Info-Net
http://www.ccchina.gov.cn/en/
� Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://www.mofa.go.jp/POLICY/environment/w
arm/cop/index.html
� Government of India, Ministry of Environment
and Forests:
http://www.envfor.nic.in/cc/index.htm
� UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change: http://www.ipcc.ch
� UK Met Office
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange
Organizations that confirm man-made climate change
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� Australian Academy of Sciences
� Royal Society of Canada
� Russian Academy of Sciences
� Academy of Science of South Africa
� Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy
� Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, Mexico
� Deutsche Akademie der NaturforscherLeopoldina, Germany
� Académie des Sciences, France
� Indian National Science Academy
� Science Council of Japan
� Chinese Academy of Sciences
� Indonesian Academy of Sciences
� Royal Irish Academy
� Academy of Sciences Malaysia
� Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand
� Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
� NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS)
� National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
� Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
� Royal Society of the United Kingdom (RS)
� American Geophysical Union (AGU)
� American Institute of Physics (AIP) National
� Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
� American Meteorological Society
� Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)
� Australian Academy of Sciences
� American Association of State Climatologists
� Geological Society of America
� American Astronomical Society (AMS)
And a few more…
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� Shock
� “WTF!”
� Denial
� “No, the scientists got it wrong.”
� Bargaining
� “Maybe I can offset my flight to Toronto?”
� Fear
� “I might lose my job!” “What kind of future will my grandchildren have?”
� Anger
� “Damn oil companies.”
� Despair
� “We can’t change. It’s human nature. The system is the way it is.”
� Acceptance
� “We can work together to create a better way.”
Climate change understanding | Seven stages of grief
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"People only accept change in necessity
and see necessity only in crisis.”
~Jean Monnet
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