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Climate Change Politics & Policy
ENVS/GEOG 3022

Week 2

Monday, July 16

  • news tweets #3
  • hand in country fact sheets (copies for each of your voting bloc + me)

Required Readings

Leggett, J. (2015). The Winning of the Carbon War: Power and politics on the front lines of climate and clean energy Creative Commons: Mountain View, CA. Chapters 7, 8 & 9

Seto, K., Davis, S.J., Mitchell, R.B., Stokes, E.C., Unruh, G., and Urge-Vorsatz, D. (2016). Carbon Lock-In: Types, Causes and Policy Implications. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 41: 425-452.

Tuesday, July 17

  • co-facilitation #2

Required Readings

Hulme, M. (2009). Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity, Cambridge University Press.  Chapter 5 (pp. 142-177) & Chapter 4 (pp. 109-141)

Ciplet, D. and Roberts, J. T. (2017). Climate change and the transition to neoliberal environmental governance. Global Environmental Change, 46, 148-156.

Wednesday, July 18

  • news tweets #4
  • brief voting bloc discussions

Required Readings

Betsill, M., Dubash, N. K., Paterson, M., van Asselt, H., Vihma, A., and Winkler, H. (2015). Building Productive Links between the UNFCCC and the Broader Global Climate Governance Landscape1. Global Environmental Politics.

Leggett, J. (2015). The Winning of the Carbon War: Power and politics on the front lines of climate and clean energy Creative Commons: Mountain View, CA. Chapters 10, 11 & 12

Thursday, July 19

  • co-facilitation #3

Required Readings

Hulme, M. (2009). Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity, Cambridge University Press.  Chapter 6 (pp. 178-210) & Chapter 7 (pp. 211-247)

Keohane, R.O. and Victor, D.G. (2016). Cooperation and discord in global climate policy, Nature Climate Change 6, 570.

Roberts, J. T., Natson, S., Hoffmeister, V., Durand, A., Weikmans, R., Gewirtzman, J., and Huq, S. (2017). How will we pay for loss and damage? Ethics, Policy & Environment, 20(2), 208-226.

Friday, July 20

  • news tweets #5

Required Readings

Leggett, J. (2015). The Winning of the Carbon War: Power and politics on the front lines of climate and clean energy Creative Commons: Mountain View, CA. Chapters 13, 14 & 15