The ACDI’s Masters in Climate Change and Sustainable Development is a one-year taught course that provides an interdisciplinary training in climate change and sustainable development, with a specific focus on the issues of relevance to African development. The course is tailored to the needs of those wanting a general exposure to the issues of climate change and mitigation, and who have ambitions of a more vocational application. It is convened by UCT’s African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), a coalition of academics and research units from across the University with a shared interest in interdisciplinary research and solutions to the climate change problem.

As such, the course draws from lecturers and researchers across a wide spectrum of the UCT community. The course is administered by the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science (EGS) which is also the hub of the course’s interdisciplinary structure. ACDI MSc students are expected to engage across disciplinary boundaries through their coursework, research and collaboration with the broader postgraduate and UCT academic communities. Staff from CSAG will have an active involvement in this course, specifically the modules on “climate change and predictability” and “adapting to global change”.