This is a timely and highly relevant module that will give students the necessary tools to produce well-informed, evidence-based analyses of energy policies, the political thinking behind them, and evaluations of how policies relate to energy system change. Students will develop abilities to engage with and critically evaluate current political solutions to energy issues, including the need for emissions reduction, and to (re-)imagine alternative approaches to change. This should equip students with, highly necessary, skills to reflect upon how energy policy relates to climate change within a complex and changing world.
This is a timely module that addresses a highly complex political issue: climate change. By the end of the module students should be able to relate the key messages of climate science to the main policy areas involved, i.e. energy, agriculture, transport and buildings, both in terms of how they contribute to emissions and how contributions can be mitigated. They will also have developed the ability to critically engage with a wide range of political approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions - at global, national and local levels.