KDEC 4010 - Cosmopolitics and the Laws of Climate

This seminar course will explore existing and emerging frameworks and instruments for the governance of climate change. Given that the problem of climate change concerns society on a truly global scale, that it implicates all sectors of society, and that it plays out on a temporal plane that extends from the past into an increasingly uncertain future, the challenges it poses for governance are unprecedented. In the first part of the course we see how climate change came to be recognized as a global problem, and we consider the mixture of science, politics and law that is shaping the evolution of governance regimes. In the second part of the course we survey the central institutions of governance – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – and the legal means of implementation of the central strategy of carbon mitigation.

Papier de 4000 mots (80%), note pour la participation 20%