Undervisningsplan

• The green house effect
• A brief history of climate change
• The human influence

Required reading: Burroughs (2007)

Optional reading: IPCC (2007), Weart (2003)

Home assignment will be handed out at the lecture and in Fronter?

• How scenarios are created
• Uncertainties
• Projections for future climate change

Required reading: Burroughs (2007)

Optional reading: IPCC (2007), Harvey (2000)?

• Impacts on human systems and ecosystems
• Adaptation to climate change

Requiered reading: Smit and Wandel(2006), Tyler et.al (2007)?

• What constitutes ¡°dangerous climate change¡±?
• How do we set a target to avoid dangerous change?
• Alternative emissions pathways
• Estimates of required emission cuts
• Early versus delayed cuts

Required reading:Schneider and Lane (2006)

Optional reading: Rive et.al (2007)?

• Introduction to economic principles
• Environmental taxes
• Emissions trading
• Regulation
• Behavioural change

Required reading: Hussein (2000)

Optional reading: Arrow (2007)?

• Changes to renewable production are necessary but not sufficient
• Attention to energy demand-side (consumption)
• Why efficiency-oriented economic and technical approaches need to be supplemented with social perspectives on energy demand and a focus on reduction
• Perspectives on production, consumption and mitigation from a Southern perspective

Required reading: Wilhite et.al (2000), Wilhite and Norgard (2004) ?

• Establishing a majority coalition in domestic politics
• Agenda setting and agenda denial in domestic policy making
• Negotiating a treaty that can be accepted domestically
• Negotiating a treaty that reconciles differing national interests

Required reading: Putnam (1988), Tsebelis (2002):Chapter 1, Schreurs and Tiberghien (2007)

Optional reading: Tsebelis (2002):Chapter 2?

• The International Climate Negotiations: An introduction
• The Role of State vs. Non-State Actors in Global Governance
• The Role and Influence of Environmental NGOs
• The Role and Influence of Business Groups

Required reading: Newell (2000), Falkner (2008)?

• The law of the least ambitious program (broad membership)
• Negotiating with fewer countries (limited membership)
• Starting with non-binding commitments, with optional possibility to do more than required
• The role of institutions: the choice of instruments
• Issue linkage and spillover

Required reading: Victor (2006), Barrett (2007), Karp and Zhao (2008), Haas (2008) ?

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Deadline: 16:00?