KGLM 2225 - Cities on the Climate Frontline

Southeast Asia faces a dual challenge. It not only must adapt to climate change caused largely by greenhouse gases emitted over decades by advanced economies, but it also must alter development strategies that are increasingly contributing to global warming. It's in cities that adaptation efforts are the most pressing but also the most challenging given the complexity of action, lack of financing, limited capacity-building to drive change. The objective of this seminar course is twofold: Equip the students with practical knowledge about the drivers of climate change in Southeast Asian cities: why is Southeast Asia locked into a carbon-intensive economic growth path? Who are the stakeholders currently developing responses to the current situation? Which approaches and policy lenses do they use? How does it translate into investment strategies and programmes? Deep dive into typical policy approaches developed throughout the region and analyse how they often combine each other The professional workshop will ultimately culminate into a policy framework built by the students to categorize Southeast Asian cities' policy responses to climate change. The workshop will combine input lectures given by external experts and students presentations to discuss the group's progress towards policy framework building.

Fabien CLAVIER

Séminaire

English

> to 6 hours over the seminar course

Understanding of urbanization dynamics in the Global South, global climate change challenges and their impacts on urban settlements

Autumn 2024-2025

The course assessment will be take the form of a short consultancy brief simulation, related to the seminar course topic. Students will need to come into small groups of three, analyse the brief, gather data and leverage insights from seminar lectures, in order to compile their findings into a compelling pitch and discussion paper, ultimately responding to the client's request. - one group oral pitch presentation (35% of the final grade) – with a compelling narrative detailing their original response to the brief - one group discussion paper at the end of the seminar (65% of the grade) - - Bonus short presentation during the seminar course focusing on one ASEAN country (10% of the grade)

The course will take the form of a seminar of 6 x 2 hours session, combining input lectures from external experts and group discussion/ presentations.