Teaching Climate & Energy Law & PolicyIn a statement release yesterday, the International Energy Agency concluded that global carbon dioxide emissions climbed to a record 30.6 gigatons by the end of 2010, a 5% increase over 2008 levels; this follows a slight downtick in 2009, probably entirely attributable to the global financial crisis. Even more disconcerting that this was the IEA’s [...]
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WTI/UNITAR e-Learning Course
Trade and Climate Change
The World Trade Institute (WTI) in partnership with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) offers e-Learning courses in the field of international trade policy and regulation. The four week long courses are designed specifically for officials and professionals wishing to deepen their knowledge and understanding of international [...]
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A new 12-minute film titled “Ocean acidification: Connecting science, industry, policy and public” (http://www.youtube.com/user/PMLAdministrator?feature=mhee), was launched and well received at the International Ocean Acidification Reference User Group meeting in Brussels May 11, on the following day at the EPOCA policy and public day and the wider media since.
Since the launch last week the film has [...]
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NYT reports that the Brazilian Congress is considering legislation to exempt small farms from current requirements to maintain forest on property within the Amazon, which would allow significantly more deforestation than current law. Along with the traditional concerns about deforestation, the effort to relax deforestation restrictions comes at a time when large sections of the [...]
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Many of my fellow instructors probably share my trepidation in discussing all of the potentially dire implications of climate change without a commensurate dollop of hope. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new report on the potential for renewable energy would be an excellent student reading in that it both reflects optimism and a dose [...]
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We’ve added an additional four climate simulations on the Teaching Climate Law page of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law:
http://www.iucnael.org/en/resources/climate-law-teaching-resources.html
Please send additional pertinent materials as you develop them in the future; we all benefit from our collective expertise!
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For those of you who follow climate geoengineering, and/or interesting international governance issues, the Stanford Journal of Law, Science & Policy has just published a special issue on climate geoengineering. The Table of Contents and the URL (open access) for the issue is listed below. wil
http://www.stanford.edu/group/sjlsp/cgi-bin/articles/index.php?CatID=1013
Geoengineering Governance Systems, Gregory E. Wannier, Megan Herzog, & Darrell [...]
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Over the past year a number of climate change specialists have asked if we would offer our adaptation courses in Spanish. We are now proud to announce our four course adaptation module in Spanish beginning May 17, 2011. Please read the course description below—or follow these links:
Español OL 340 Adaptación al Cambio Climático Basado en [...]
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A new piece (open access) published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences assesses the potential impact of climate change on penguin populations in Antarctica. It could provide an excellent reading in the science section of a climate change course as a case study. Among the take-aways from the study:
While it had been hypothesized that [...]
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I’ve posted a number of climate change negotiation simulations suitable for use in classes on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Academy of Environmental Law’s website:
http://www.iucnael.org/resources/climate-law-teaching-resources.html#sim
If you have developed simulations of this nature that you’re willing to share, please send them to me at: wburns@miis.edu
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