Main topic: Introduction to climate change and climate politics.

Outline: Climate change mechanism, the impact of climate change on the environment and society. Relationship between energy sector (fossil fuel consumption) and climate. International climate regime. Impact of regulatory policies on energy mix and energy investments.

Sources: Climate change fundamentals - a very basic version and rather detailed one. Context of the climate change issue provided by Tietenberg and Lewis. A bridge to politics and climate change, and very good reading about climate politics provided by Saurabh Thakur, and one more, the 2021 IPCC report. And the explanation of the EU´s Green Deal. Bonus, an interesting website: climate action tracker.

Further readings: for getting familiar with the energy-climate link do read the Executive Summary of IEA Energy, Climate Change and Environment report (you may skim through the whole text indeed). 

Get ready: Climate change is a global problem with global consequences. Considering that does it make any sense for a single country to costly decarbonize its economy provided there is no global agreement on collective action? Do you think that the discussion and the actions taken in your country of origin are sufficient?