Climate Leadership Academy

We empower leaders in climate innovation

Build a unique set of skills to achieve your climate goals and ambitions. Our Climate Leadership Academy is a well-facilitated and engaged community that provides space for public and private leaders to collaborate globally across sectors. 

What makes learning at the Academy unique is its customisable series of modules. It includes online and in-depth system innovation courses, peer-to-peer leadership coaching, policy innovation practices for emerging leaders, and a convening festival.

Join the Academy and tackle climate change as we guide you on a journey towards a climate-resilient future.

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Our approach to boost your green leadership skills

Modular learning

Community of practice

Policy Innovation Lab

Portfolio design

Climate Leadership Festival

January 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark

Masterclass: Leadership in sustainability

Why learn with Climate KIC

Our Academy helps integrate climate action into all aspects of leadership so that together we can boost green leadership skills, advance the green transition and shift mindsets. We also look at social, economic, international and national climate action policy, and explore how collaboration across sectors supports collective climate action.

Increase knowledge and understanding of climate change science, policy, and relevance to your local context.

Outline the fundamentals of working collectively through leadership to influence positive change at organisational and community levels.

Build local capacity to foster and demonstrate leadership in developing and implementing local climate action measures.

Who is this for

Are you a city leader or government official? An urban planner or a social scientist? A psychologist or an entrepreneur? Or maybe an innovation or development leader?

Whatever your expertise, our learning formats are customisable to your or your organisation’s needs. We bring people together and explore what it takes – as individuals and as organisations – to make an effective and rapid systemic change for a net-zero future.

What others say

The Circular economy course empowered me to be more aware of the Circular Economy and with a desire to undertake activities within my institution and [...] the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation in Peru Miguel Ángel Ayquipa Elguera, Deputy Director of Science, Technology and Talents of the National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation of Peru (CONCYTEC)

I am very grateful to Climate KIC for offering me the opportunity to join one of their Leadership programmes [...] Their support and guidance have led me to be a project manager for a European project to create new, locally adapted governance processes and tools using the SDGs as a vehicle for strategic governance. I am very excited to be working on something that I can see a purpose in and that is directly related to sustainability. Barbora Ansorge, Project manager, Municipal authority of Jablonec and Nisou, participant in Climate KIC’s Climate Leadership 2022

Driving the transition to the circular economy requires a combination of existing and new knowledge and skills for policy making. This course was created to address that need and we are very proud of the results of this partnership between the IDB and Climate KIC Dr Matteo Grazzi, Senior Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

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