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Climate Change Literacy

Starts 4th November 2026

A thorough, in-depth 15-week course on climate change, covering the foundations of climate change, its impacts, how we respond to it, sources of energy, climate governance and global action, the energy transition, climate policy instruments, climate risks, climate opportunities, the catastrophe framework, climate scenarios, carbon markets and climate finance.

In this course, learning will be reinforced using fhionQ's learning tools.

Course Content

Week 1: Foundations of Climate Change
  1. Weather vs climate
  2. The greenhouse effect
  3. Greenhouse gases
  4. Anthropogenic drivers of climate change
Week 2: Impacts of Climate Change
  1. The current state of climate change
  2. Natural climate variability (El Niño and La Niña)
  3. Sectoral impacts of climate change
  4. Attribution science
Week 3: Responding to Climate Change
  1. Climate mitigation
  2. Climate adaptation
  3. Net zero and the bathtub analogy
  4. Climate justice
Week 4: Sources of Energy
  1. Fossil fuels
  2. Renewable energy
  3. Other sources of energy
  4. The global energy mix
Week 5: Climate Governance & Global Action
  1. Global climate institutions: IPCC, UNFCCC
  2. The Kyoto Protocol
  3. The Paris Agreement
  4. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
  5. Conference of the Parties (COP)
  6. National and county climate plans
Week 6: The Energy Transition
  1. Decarbonisation
  2. Electrification and energy efficiency
  3. Drivers of the energy transition
  4. Just transition
Christmas break (2 weeks)
Week 7: Climate Policy Instruments
  1. Market-based instruments
  2. Command-and-control regulations
  3. Information-based instruments
Week 8: Climate Risks
  1. Physical climate risks
  2. Transition climate risks
  3. Cascading climate risks (the domino effect)
  4. Compounding climate risks (double "whammy")
  5. Group activity: Identify, trace and assess climate risks and their financial impacts through Ternan.
Week 9: Climate Opportunities
  1. The five broad areas of climate-related opportunities identified by the TCFD
  2. Group activity: Identify and explore climate opportunities in real-world business scenarios through Dawson.
Week 10: The Catastrophe Framework
  1. The climate risk equation
  2. Group activity: Apply the catastrophe framework to real-world scenarios through Harcourt.
Week 11: Climate Scenarios
  1. Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs)
  2. Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs)
  3. RCPs + SSPs
  4. Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) climate scenarios
Week 12: Carbon Markets I
  1. Compliance vs voluntary markets
  2. Types of carbon projects
  3. Carbon market standards
  4. Assessing the quality of carbon credits
Week 13: Carbon Markets II
  1. Kenya’s carbon market regulations
  2. The carbon project lifecycle in Kenya
Week 14: Carbon Markets III
  1. Article 6: How the Paris Agreement enables international cooperation on climate action
  2. Article 6.2: Cooperative approaches and internationally transferred mitigation outcomes (ITMOs)
  3. Article 6.4: The UN-supervised mechanism for generating and trading emission reductions
  4. Article 6.8: Non-market approaches to international cooperation
Week 15: Climate Finance
  1. Climate change and financial risk
  2. Climate finance instruments
  3. Sources of climate finance

Course details

Starts
4th November 2026
Ends
10th March 2027
Duration
15 weeks
Schedule
Online, Wednesdays | 7:30–9:30 PM EAT (GMT+3)
Fee for Kenyans
KES 45,000 (introductory offer for cohort 1)
Fee for non-Kenyans
USD 450 (introductory offer for cohort 1)
Class size
Maximum 30 participants
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Please note:

  1. This course is designed for people who are completely new to the field. You do not need to be a climate scientist, ESG specialist or sustainability professional to participate.
  2. While fhionQ operates in Africa, this course is open to anyone, anywhere in the world. Some of the regulations covered are Kenyan, but the concepts span the global landscape.
  3. To keep classes small and interactive, this course is limited to 30 participants per cohort. Places are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
  4. Some concepts are reinforced through fhionQ's learning tools and games, including scenarios that allow participants to explore climate risks, climate opportunities, catastrophe frameworks and climate scenarios.
  5. There will be a two-week Christmas break during the course: 18th December 2026 – 5th January 2027. Classes resume on 6th January 2027.
  6. The fee indicated applies to the first cohort only.
  7. Participants can pay their course fee in two installments. The first installment is due by 30th October 2026 at midnight, and the second installment by 29th November 2026 at midnight.
  8. A certificate will be presented at the end of the course.
  9. If you would like to enquire more about this course, please email shel@fhionq.com with the subject line “Climate Change Literacy Course - Enquiry”. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
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