OADD 2350 - Energy For Development and the Climate Constraint

Developing country successes in reducing poverty and expanding prosperity have changed the energy landscape in these countries and globally, affecting climate change efforts as well as relations between historically poorer and wealthier nations. Notwithstanding this progress, millions of households still lack access to energy, albeit in an evolving pattern across countries. The energy world is dramatically different from 25 years ago, and 2050 will look very different from today. This course will analyze the attendant forces and trends reshaping the evolving energy landscape, including its interplay with climate considerations and changing geopolitics. It will explore a diversity of perspectives, including of developing and developed countries, as well as public and private sector actors, and think-tanks/academia.