25 Best Climate Change Courses Online
We compared 25 Climate Change courses currently listed on Coursera, edX and Udemy, priced from $24.99 to $340.20. 13 come from a named university or institution, including University of Cape Town, The University of Edinburgh and Duke University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 25
- Price range
- $24.99 – $340.20
- Providers
- Coursera, edX, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 25 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, edX, Udemy, matched to "climate change" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $24.99 to $340.20, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries
Offered by University of Cape Town
This course challenges you to consider how one might lift societies out of poverty while also mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. We explore the inherent complexity of developing country governments wanting to grow thei...
$39.00listed price -
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Climate Change: Carbon Capture and Storage
Offered by The University of Edinburgh
The atmosphere is a shared resource and the amount of greenhouse gases it can absorb is a finite resource. This introductory course to the technology of Carbon Capture and Storage is designed for a wider audience with an...
$49.00listed price -
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Climate Change Leadership for Community Resilience
Offered by Duke University
As climate impacts intensify, communities need leaders who can turn evidence into coordinated, on-the-ground resilience. This specialization is intended for learners and professionals—across government, nonprofits, educa...
$49.00listed price -
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Healthcare Leadership for Climate Change
Offered by Duke University
What are the intersections between the climate challenge and human health? How can we as individuals and communities use our experiences to address climate change? What does it mean to be a climate-smart leader in health...
$49.00listed price -
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Community-Based Climate Change Solutions
Offered by Duke University
Climate change will have tremendous impacts on every human community across the globe. However, because of the context of both how climate is changing and how communities are organized and function, it can be disastrous...
$49.00listed price -
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Global Climate Change Policies and Analysis
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This course explores and critically analyzes historical and contemporary climate policies (e.g. Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement). Political issues pertaining to energy sources, such as nuclear energy, will be revi...
$49.00listed price -
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Planning for Climate Change in African Cities
Offered by Institute for Housing and Urban Development
Climate change poses a threat to economic growth and long-term prosperity of many countries around the world. Africa is not an exception, considering the actual and potential impacts of climate change and climate variabi...
$49.00listed price -
8
What is Climate Change?
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
In this course, learners will become familiar with the scientific evidence that demonstrates human-caused climate change. We will explore how greenhouse gases cause the Earth to warm, and why our recent warming is attrib...
$49.00listed price -
9
Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions
Offered by University of California San Diego
Climate change is an urgent problem that affects everything from human health and food security to immigration patterns and water resources. The good news is that solutions to reduce the threat of climate change are with...
$49.00listed price -
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Exploring Our Responses to Climate Change
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
In this specialization, learners will gain familiarity with the key information sources that constitute the scientific consensus on the human causes of climate change and its associated impacts. We will explore the optio...
$49.00listed price -
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Climate Change and Adaptation
Offered by University of Michigan
Climate change hits hardest where people and environments are most vulnerable. Adapting to it is as much a social challenge as a technical one. In "Climate Change & Adaptation," you'll explore the social dimensions of ad...
$49.00listed price -
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Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change
Offered by The University of Chicago
This class describes the science of global warming and the forecast for humans’ impact on Earth’s climate. Intended for an audience without much scientific background but a healthy sense of curiosity, the class brings to...
$49.00listed price -
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Climate change education
Offered by Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
This specialization offers tools and resources developed as part of the "Rise up" initiative by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to combat climate change and improve the sustainability of the planet. Through the...
$49.00listed price -
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Climate Change: Financial Risks and Opportunities
Offered by Imperial College Business School
Explore the risks and opportunities that climate change presents to financial markets, hearing from a range of investment industry leaders and scientific researchers.
$99.00listed price -
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Sustainable Business and Climate Change Impact
In this course, we will get an introduction to understand climate change impacts, opportunities and strategies and innovative solutions that business, countries and society can use to mitigate and adapt to its effects.Pa...
$24.99listed price -
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Master Course in Climate Change Impact on Business
Master Course in Climate Change Impact on BusinessThere's no doubt climate change is an existential threat, one that keeps me up at night. In reality, talking about fire and brimstone only aggravates those with vested in...
$89.99listed price -
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Arresting Climate Change
In this class we discuss carbon sequestration as a means to mitigate climate change. The method promoted is carbon mineralization. This course was developed as part of mission of the non-profit Carbon Negative Water an...
$24.99listed price -
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Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation
Offered by Council on Foreign Relations
Climate change—or what many refer to as global warming—is one of the most significant threats that humanity faces. "Climate Change and Global Affairs: Mitigation and Adaptation" explores the impacts of climate change wor...
$49.00listed price -
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Climate Change and Global Affairs
Offered by Council on Foreign Relations
Climate Change and Global Affairs: Navigating a Warming World is a three-course specialization created by the Council on Foreign Relations. By completing this self-guided series, you will understand the natural and human...
$49.00listed price -
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Climate Change in Water and Sanitation Utilities
Offered by Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
The objective of this course is to support urban water and sanitation utilities in transitioning to climate-resilient management by reducing their carbon emissions. This course, consisting of 4 modules, addresses the con...
$29.00listed price -
21
Climate Change. The Science Behind the Crisis
Offered by Tel Aviv University
In this course, you will explore the scientific principles underpinning climate change and understand its impacts on our planet. You'll analyze data that highlights the severity of the crisis and discuss potential soluti...
$340.20listed price -
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Climate Change and Sustainable Investing
Offered by EDHEC Business School
This specialization aims to provide you with a better understanding of the complex relationships between climate change and economy and finance. By the end of the program you will have gained command over the tools allow...
$49.00listed price -
23
Climate Change in Arctic Environments
Offered by University of Alaska Fairbanks
Learn about climate change in this self-paced online course about the Arctic from America’s Arctic University. This MOOC covers modern climate science and the impacts of climate change across atmospheric, marine, terrest...
$179.00listed price -
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Climate Change in Business Foundations: Net-Zero Transition
Offered by University of Oxford
Learn how to take action on the climate crisis through systemic thinking, organisational change and personal resilience, while exploring drivers of a just net-zero transition.
$189.00listed price -
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LSE Politics and Policy of Climate Change and Sustainability online certificate course
Offered by London School of Economics
Help shape the future of sustainability by exploring policy interventions and political strategies for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.
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Best Climate Change Courses Online compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 24 priced courses on this page run from $24.99 to $340.20, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $315.21. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera, edX and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 13 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Cape Town, The University of Edinburgh and Duke University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 18 September 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.