COURSE

CNGF5100

Global Environmental and Climate Policy

Society Hub / CNGF Subject Area · 3 Credits

As the magnitudes of environmental problems have increased, many of the most severe issues have become truly global challenges. Hundreds of international agreements have been signed, but their effectiveness has been inconsistent. Heightened concern about environmental quality has increased demand analysts who can navigate the political, economic, scientific, and technological dimensions of these issues to inform critical policy decisions in a multinational context. This course is designed to introduce students to the main concepts, issues, frameworks, and actors involved in addressing environmental problems of global scale. The perspective taken here is that of a policy maker confronting decisions about the formation of international environmental policy and the management of it. A central theme of the course involves the challenges of addressing global problems while accommodating cross-national differences in interpretations of scientific risk and uncertainty.