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The Graduate Certificate of Climate Policy (6 months full-time, or part-time equivalent) offers you the opportunity to develop a cutting-edge understanding of climate policy, informed by research-led teaching delivered by some of the world’s leading researchers in climate policy.

The design of the program aims to prepare you to become a climate change professional tackling the global challenges of climate change and being part of the climate change policymaking process.

You will explore fundamental concepts, contemporary issues, and leading practices for working in and researching climate policy. The program centres key issues in domestic and international climate policy such as emissions reduction and energy, and the effective communication of climate policy. Study of these issues is enriched with intersecting and adjacent policy areas including water, food, pollution, and disaster risk reduction.

 

Admission requirements and fees

Career opportunities

When you complete this graduate certificate program, a wide range of local and international employment pathways may open up as you upskill or retrain in this area of national priority, including in:

  • Business
  • Research
  • Consultancies
  • Government and public service
  • Education
  • Climate change policy
  • Management, implementation and evaluation of policy related to climate change
  • Research

What you’ll learn

The Graduate Certificate of Climate Policy is a 24-unit program offered by The Australian National University's (ANU) Crawford School of Public Policy and caters to students seeking shorter and more specific postgraduate offerings. This program is a multi-modal offering, meaning it can be studied online or in person.

All of the courses you will study in this program incorporate research-based assessment activities and each draws on case studies that use current research from ANU, often by the convenors themselves who are world leaders in their fields.

Complete course list

Commonwealth Supported Places

Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) are available to domestic students for this program in 2021. There is no application process for a CSP. All students commencing in Semester 2 2021 will be ranked according to the GPA of the qualification used as the basis of admission. Commonwealth funding for this program is only available for 2021. Any remaining courses commenced in 2022 would not be Commonwealth supported.

Students unsuccessful in securing a CSP can undertake the program as domestic tuition full fee (DTF) paying students. More information on domestic tuition fees is available here.

 

Pathway to a Master degree

You may wish to consider extending your Graduate Certificate to complete a Master degree. Your 24 units of study in the Graduate Certificate of Climate Policy may count as credit towards the Master of Climate Change, Master of Public Policy or Master of Environmental Management and Development.

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