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Welcome to Becoming a Climate Champion: A Climate Emergency Course for Young People.

This course introduces you to key concepts of climate change and climate change action to safeguard the future, to enable you to better understand, participate, and contribute. By the end of the course, you should feel far more comfortable talking about, and taking action on, climate change. You will be well on your way to becoming a Climate Champion.

Becoming a Climate Champion — is this course for you?

Climate change is the greatest threat that humanity has ever faced. It makes no sense to sugar-coat that frightening truth. We speak to you as adults, albeit mostly young adults, who are facing a future of climate destabilisation and ecosystem breakdown. We have attempted to ensure that this course is always honest with you about the state of the climate – even though that is changing (in other words, worsening) very rapidly. The goal is to empower you to take action on climate change and perhaps even become a climate change "champion" – a leader of others and an advocate for the rest of Nature; for that you must understand the urgency of the climate emergency.

Course Outcomes

Upon completion of Becoming a Climate Champion you will be able to:

• Show your understanding of the science of climate change.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic scientific processes that lead to climate change.
• Distinguish the factors governing natural climate variability from human-caused climate change.
• Identify and support action to mitigate the effects of climate change.