Training

Acting for clean air and a resilient climate

A programme for young professionals, policymakers, businesses, civil society and entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa. It connects what existing courses treat separately: climate, air quality, health, law, business and how people adopt solutions.

In preparation · draft programme

The programme in seven modules

Each module combines input, an African case study and a hands-on exercise. The final project brings everything together around a real case.

• M1

  Understanding climate and air

  Climate science, links between greenhouse gases and air pollutants, the Paris Agreement, national contributions and the African Union climate strategy.

  Hands-on: Map the climate and air quality actors in your city.

• M2

  Measuring the airnew

  Low-cost sensors and their calibration, reference stations, satellites and models, data confidence levels. Reading and comparing public data series.

  Hands-on: Analyse open AirQo or OpenAQ data for a capital city.

• M3

  Air and healthnew

  Health effects of fine particles, household pollution from cooking, critical reading of studies and attributable-death estimates.

  Hands-on: Prepare a briefing note for a health centre.

• M4

  Law, policy and negotiations

  African climate laws (including South Africa's 2024 act), air quality standards, international negotiations, carbon markets and Article 6.

  Hands-on: Simulate an advocacy session with elected officials.

• M5

  Business: risk and reporting

  Climate risk, ISSB reporting standards (IFRS S2), circular economy, with examples from African companies.

  Hands-on: Carry out a climate and air diagnosis of a company.

• M6

  Communicating and getting solutions adoptednew

  Climate communication without greenwashing, and above all behaviour: why families go back to charcoal, how to get clean cooking or air cleaners adopted.

  Hands-on: Design a behaviour change campaign.

• M7

  Building local solutions

  Markets for clean cooking, filtration and monitoring; finance from green funds, impact investors and carbon credits.

  Hands-on: Build a filter box, then pitch a project to a panel.

Three formats

What we bring

• Air and climate together: most courses separate them, although their sources and solutions overlap.
• A French-language offer: technical air quality courses exist mostly in English.
• How people adopt solutions: technology is not enough if households, schools or businesses do not take it up.
• Hands-on practice: measuring, filtering, building a project, using public data and African cases.

What already exists: our selection

We draw on these programmes and recommend them. Check dates, eligibility and any fees on each site.

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