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Explore our range of free short online courses, including our highly popular course on the weather offered in partnership with the  Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS).

We also deliver a number of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes with a particular focus on climate and sustainability.

Planet Partners: Tackling the Climate Crisis Together

Investigate the impact of climate change, the research being done to tackle it, and what you can do to take meaningful action.

Using Systems Thinking to Tackle the Climate and Biodiversity Crisis

Discover how switching to a systems mindset could help overcome the global environmental challenges we face today.

Come Rain or Shine: Understanding the Weather

Understand and explore the physical processes behind the weather.

Teaching Climate and Sustainability in Primary Schools: An Outdoor Learning Approach

Build your confidence teaching climate and sustainability outdoors and develop ideas to implement in your school.

Climate Intelligence: Using Climate Data to Improve Business Decision-Making

Build climate resilience in your business as you learn how climate intelligence helps make decisions that mitigate risks.

Understanding Food Loss

Explore why food loss matters and how better measurement and management can deliver sustainability and economic benefits.

Advocating for a Better Planet

Exclusively for University of Reading students

Advocating for a Better Planet: Essential Skills for Climate and Sustainability Action is a free online course developed exclusively for University of Reading students.

Discover how the concepts of system mapping, design-thinking and the principles of life-centred design can help you:

  • frame a complex climate or sustainability issue of your choosing
  • explore the causes and effects behind the issue
  • identify an intervention point to enable you to advocate for positive change
  • conduct stakeholder and feasibility analysis to help inform and develop an advocacy plan.

Whether you want to find a way to help protect a local habitat, encourage sustainable practices in an organisation, hold the government accountable for a climate policy or something completely different, this course enables you to take effective and measurable action.

We're green in all sorts of ways
People & Planet University League
4th in the People & Planet University League 2024/25
The Times and Sunday Times, Good University Guide 2025, Sustainable University of the Year
The Times and Sunday Times, Good University Guide 2025, Sustainable University of the Year
The Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education 2021
Queen's Anniversary Prize for climate research and action
London Higher
Winner of Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability Leadership, London Higher Award 2024
Times Higher Education Awards 2023
Winner of Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Leadership