Checking date: 22/04/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Climate change, energy and global governance
(19160)
Master in Global Sustainable Development and Global Governance (Plan: 473 - Estudio: 376)
EPC


Coordinating teacher: NICOLINI ALESSI, ESTEBAN ALBERTO

Department assigned to the subject: Social Sciences Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:
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Objectives
- Comprehension of the importance of production processes and energy consumption in the economics carbon intensity - Knowledge of the role of the production processes and energy consumption in the transition to decarbonized energetic systems. - Comprehension of the main determinants of climate change mitigation related to the production and use of energy (technologic and behavioural factors) as well as the method s for its identification. - Knowledge of the role and relevance that different energetic technologies can play in the climate change mitigation, with special thoughtfulness on electric generation technologies and, within these, renewable technologies. - Grasp of fundamental concepts of the economy of renewable energies that allow students to identify its benefits and costs in the context of the decarbonized energetic transition. - Profound knowledge of the public policies that support the decarbonized energetic transition, with emphasis on the promotion of energetic efficiency and renewable technologies in the electric generation system. - Ability to compare policies and instruments to detect their advantages, inconveniences, and applicability in different contexts. - Comprehension of the functioning of institutions and global governance mechanisms related to the energetic transition.
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
- The energy transition and climate change: the contribution of energy to climate change and climate change mitigation. - Use and production of energy: the role of technological and behavioral change in climate mitigation. - Renewable energy technologies. The costs and benefits of renewable energy in the perspective of climate mitigation. - Policies for the energy transition and climate change mitigation. - International and supranational institutions tackling climate change and energy transitions, their varying platforms, agreements and strategies, principles and challenges of global governance in this context.
Learning activities and methodology
-Theorical classes - Theoretical-practical classes - Group assignment - Individual assignment - Partial and final exams
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60




Basic Bibliography
  • IPCC. Climate Change 2022. Mitigation of Climate Change. . Working Group III contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.. 2022
  • IRENA. World Energy Transitions Outlook 2022. 1.5° C pathway. IRENA. 2022
Recursos electrónicosElectronic Resources *
Additional Bibliography
  • BLEDA, M., DEL RIO, P. . The market failure and the systemic failure rationales in technological innovation systems. . Research Policy 42(5), 1039-1052. 2013.
  • Del Río, P. y Ragwitz. Handbook on the Economics of Renewable Energy. Edward Elgar. 2023
  • IEA. Renewable Energy Market Update Outlook for 2022 and 2023. IEA. 2022
  • IEA. Clean energy innovation. IEA. 2020
  • IEA. A 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use. IEA. 2022
  • IEA. The Role of Low-Carbon Fuels in the Clean Energy Transitions of the Power Sector. IEA. 2021
  • IEA. Global Hydrogen Review 2021. IEA. 2021
  • IEA. Global Energy Review: CO2 Emissions in 2021. IEA. 2022
  • IEA. Renewables 2021. Analysis and forecasts to 2026. IEA. 2021
  • IRENA. Climate Change and Renewable Energy. IRENA. 2019
  • IRENA. Renewable energy in national climate action. IRENA. 2018
  • IRENA. Turning to renewables: Climate-safe energy solutions. IRENA. 2017
  • IRENA. REthinking Energy: Renewable Energy and Climate Change. IRENA. 2015
Recursos electrónicosElectronic Resources *
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