The Climate Change Science and Policy degree is unique in that it couples a biophysical and chemical understanding of climate change with the social, political and technological aspects of climate policy. Students are provided with an educational foundation to become climate change specialists within the government, corporate, non-profit, and education sectors.

The courses and the learning outcomes align with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working groups, namely ‘science’, ‘impacts’, and ‘mitigation’. The ‘science’ of climate change requires an understanding of physics, chemistry, and geography; the ‘impacts’ of climate change require an understanding of ecology, resource management, hydrology, planning, economics, and social justice; and the ‘mitigation’ of climate change requires an understanding of policy, business, finance, law and energy technologies.