Lecture/Seminar: Climate Diplomacy (C1b) (74034)
WS 2024/2025
2024-12-06-2024-12-08 (several days), S25 (GEO II)
Charlotte Streck
L/S, 3 ECTS
Block course from 6 December 2024 to 8 December 2024
Pre-meeting online on 22 October 2024 at 6 pm
Learning Objectives: After attending the lecture (i), students are familiar with various instruments for achieving climate policy goals, (ii) can analyze them in terms of efficiency, distribution effect and uncertainties, and (iii) are able to critically discuss the advantages and disadvantages of real-world political instruments along economic criteria.
The course will introduce key concepts such as the “tragedy of the commons” and “collective action problems”, and discuss key academic developments in the understanding of the management of global commons. The course will ensure that the students develop a firm grasp of the fundamental dynamic of climate change negotiations while introducing the main legal instruments that form the backbone of the climate regime. Students will be able to critically assess how the Paris Agreement can mobilize action.
Course content:
In this part of the module, an introduction into the climate regime (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement) in the context of international environmental governance will be given. This will be discussed against the backdrop of geopolitical developments.
Global environmental commons, Introduction into the International Climate Regime, discuss the role of state and non-state actors, Case Studies, Critical Assessment and Concluding Discussion.
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