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Ten modules in two tracks, free for registered learners. Each module sets out what it covers, the primary texts to read, an exercise and a short self-check. Sign in, or request access once: your progress is saved to your account.
Certificate in Climate Policy & Advocacy
5 modules · 5 h 10 min of study
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The architecture of the Paris Agreement
How the Agreement actually binds: the difference between a procedural obligation and a substantive one, and where discretion sits.
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From NDC to national statute
The conversion problem: why a pledge stalls between a head-of-state announcement and an enforceable line of law.
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03
Negotiation craft & delegation mechanics
How rooms actually work: mandate, sequencing, coalition arithmetic, and the procedural moves that decide outcomes.
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04
Transparency, MRV, and the BTR
Why reporting is leverage: the Enhanced Transparency Framework turned disclosure into a negotiating instrument.
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05
Drafting clinic: a binding framework
The assessed exercise: draft a framework instrument for a chosen jurisdiction and defend it.
Certificate in Green Diplomacy Analytics
5 modules · 5 h 35 min of study
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01
Comparative climate legislation
Reading instruments across jurisdictions without flattening the legal differences that matter.
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Policy data & legislative tracking
Building a defensible dataset: provenance, verification discipline, and the honest recording of uncertainty.
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03
Quantifying the gap between pledge and statute
Measuring the distance between what is announced and what is enacted — and the limits of such measures.
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04
Carbon markets & border mechanisms
How pricing and border measures interact, technically and procedurally, across trading partners.
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05
Capstone: a jurisdiction dossier
The assessed exercise: produce a fully sourced dossier on one jurisdiction's climate statute book.
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