Teaching Climate & Energy Law & PolicyFrom Professor Michael Wara at Stanford Law School:
For those who like to teach with visual aids, check out this figure prepared by Nicole Heller of Climate Central and Douglas Fisher of DailyClimate. It synthesizes the existing literature on the social costs of climate change and puts all estimates in a common framework. Also interesting is [...]
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Dear Colleagues,
Brown University and Santander Universities are again sponsoring a two-week summer institute on developing the climate change science of the future, targeted at early career academics in the Global South. Applications are being accepted and are due by February 11th. Please apply yourself or encourage your colleagues to apply. A longer description of the [...]
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Instructors looking for a good overview of climate geoengineering options should consider David W. Keith’s chapter in Climate Change Science & Policy (Schneider, et al., eds. 2010) (Chapter 49, Engineering the Planet).
Among the key take-aways from the chapter are the following:
Geoengineering is “intentional, large-scale manipulation of the environment.” Environmental change must be the goal rather [...]
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POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN ETHICS AND GEOENGINEERING GOVERNANCE
Oxford Geoengineering Programme
Oxford Martin School
University Of Oxford
Protocol reference number: HUM/10033F/E
Grade 8: £36,715 – £43,840 per annum at 1 October 2010
Fixed-term for two years from date of appointment.
Applications are invited for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ethics and Geoengineering Governance to work on a project [...]
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The George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (4C) (http://climate.gmu.edu) invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to contribute to our ongoing Climate Change in the American Mind research program (conducted in collaboration with the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication). The program involves survey research (including nationally representative surveys, community surveys, membership [...]
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From David Hodas’s Climate Change Law blog:
For those of you interested in learning about the details and merits of the various arguments skeptics have raised about climate change science should read the whitepaper commissioned by DB Climate Change Advisors, Climate Change: Addressing the Major Skeptic Arguments (September 2010). It was written by [...]
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Dear Colleagues,
An e-learning course on Climate Change Diplomacy has been developed by the Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP) of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). The course aims to provide the training necessary for participation in multilateral negotiations, public sector work, and diplomatic engagement in relation to climate change through an enhanced understanding [...]
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Spring 2011 Postgraduate Courses on
Building Resilience to Climate Change
28 February – 25 March 2011
Tokyo, Japan
www.isp.unu.edu/cecar
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DEADLINE: 21 January 2011
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The United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace (UNU-ISP), Tokyo, invites applications for the new intensive 4-week postgraduate programme on “Building Resilience to Climate Change” developed under the framework of the University Network for Climate [...]
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For those of you teaching courses this semester with climate change law and policy components, I’d like to remind you about the IUCN’s Academy of Environmental Law syllabus bank, developed by myself and Don Anton at ANU: http://www.iucnael.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73&Itemid=57&lang=en
If any of you haven’t submitted your syllabi for posting and are amenable to doing so, please send [...]
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CSDi is announcing the January launch of a module of four online field courses on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change. These courses begin by introducing basic climate change concepts, and develop as participants identify local community vulnerabilities, investigate appropriate solutions, develop full projects, launch and manage them.
Complete information and course syllabi:
http://www.csd-i.org/adapting-overview/
Online course participants are using [...]
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