Governance-103: Elements of Climate Change Professionalism
Recommended Exam Prep Course (Governance, Law & Policy)
Estimated Time: 1 hour, 7 minutes
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Numerous occupations require practitioners to possess special licenses and responsibilities that hold them to higher standards, as well as demand special knowledge and skill, when undertaking their professional responsibilities. Those practitioners working on climate change related considerations must discern between fact and fiction, and engage in difficult, realistic assessments of risk. This course examines ethical duties, legal liability considerations, and one's professional responsibilities and aspirations in the context of climate change.
Learning Objectives
Understanding the need to make distinctions between fact and risk, and the implications on the duties of professional competence
Considering how ethical standards apply to numerous occupations working on climate change initiatives, including how to locate relevant provisions of professional codes
Understanding the elements of professional negligence and malpractice, exploring actual legal cases involving professional negligence, and discussing how disclosures and contracts and defenses, such as caveat emptor and sovereign immunity, can minimize liability in various professional disciplines
Recognizing how the mandates of ethical codes do, and do not, influence civil or criminal liability, and distinguishing between the risks of professional discipline and the risks of professional negligence
Thinking about aspirations of professionalism, and whether and how non-mandatory documents associated with various professions should influence climate change professionals
Course Architects & Reviewers
Thomas Bateman -- Professor, Self and University of Virginia
Gavin Dillingham, CC-P -- Director, HARC
Jette Findsen — Sr. Program Officer - Climate Investment Standards, American Carbon Registry
Greg Guibert -- Senior Resilience Analyst, National Renewable Energy Lab
Jill Lemke, CC-P -- Manager, Strategic Planning & Special Projects, MDOT Port Administration
Ellen Mecray -- Regional Climate Services Director- Eastern Region, NOAA
Richard Miller -- Director, Office of Sustainability, Institute of the Environment, University of Connecticut
Josh Silverman -- Director of Environmental Protection and ES&H Reporting, US DOE
Emily Soontornsaratool, CC-P -- Chief, Data Management & Sustainability Initiatives, Office of Energy & Sustainability, Maryland Department of General Services
Nancy Sutley -- Senior Assistant General Manager of External and Regulatory Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer, LA Department of Water and Power
Kristen Taddonio, CC-P -- Sr. Climate & Energy Advisor, IGSD
Susanne Torriente -- Global Technology Leader, City Resilience, Jacobs