Teaching Climate & Energy Law & PolicyInstructors looking for contemporaneous energy and greenhouse emission data, including some excellent charts and downloadable data, should check out the Enerdata site, especially its Global Energy Statistical Yearbook 2011. Enerdata is a consulting company, so a lot of what is on the site is only accessible to paying subscribers, however, some of the free data [...]
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I recently stumbled across an excellent source for spreadsheets and graphics on energy and climate issues, the Environmental Data Center. Unlike many sites of this nature, the resource seems to be regularly updated, providing access to some really good materials for Power Point presentations.
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Carboun, an intiative to promote conservation and sustainable development in the Middle East, has published an excellent new visual guide to energy use and carbon emissions in the region. The guide includes the Arab world’s share of carbon emissions, and those of individual States in the region, as well as trends in emissions. Moreover, it [...]
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The Climate Change Education Initiative team of the National Council of Science Education, funded by NASA, has developed 8 self-contained modules for undergraduate general education on climate change. The modules, using NASA data and web materials, is presently available on the Encyclopedia of Earth. They include:
NASA Time Machine –
Climate Change Impacts on Colorado River water [...]
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A new study from George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication, Politics & Global Warming: Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and the Tea Party (2011) provides some interesting insights into the perceptions of the different political factions in the United States and their respective attitudes toward climate change and energy policy making. The study involved a [...]
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For instructors who like to include a discussion of the roots of contemporary climate theory, I’d recommend a blog entry entitled “History of Climate Change: Part 1 – Learning the Greenhouse Effect.” The author, Chris Colose, a graduate student at University of Albany, presents a nice overview of this topic, very suitable for undergraduate students. [...]
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There’s a very interesting potential reading in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focusing on the implications of international trade for attribution of greenhouse gas emissions between developing and developing countries, Glen P. Peters, et al., Growth in Emissions Transfers via International Grade from 1990 to 2008, 108(21) PNAS [...]
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FYI. Note: even if you can’t attend, a podcast will be available for this conference. The conference’s organizer, Jane McAdam, has done some very interesting work on the legal implications of actors being rendered stateless by climate change.
Climate Change and Migration in the Asia-Pacific: Legal and Policy Responses
NSW Parliament House, Sydney, 10-11 November 2011
This two-day [...]
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David Victor & Kassia Tanosek recently published an article in Foreign Affairs on the future of renewable energy that would be an excellent student reading.
Among the take-aways from the piece:
The clean energy industry in Western countries is “heading for a crisis” as a consequence of substantial cuts in public subsidies by cash-strapped government. Early manifestations [...]
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