Climate Change Policy
Rutgers University
Environmental Studies
2023
Cymie Payne
Undergraduate seminar
Simulations,Readings from Underrepresented groups,Group projects
Climate policy includes a wide range of measures aimed at providing tolerable climate conditions for life on Earth as we know it, raising classic issues of distributional justice, law, science, risk, uncertainty and precaution, technology policy, energy regulation and international relations. This course aims to prepare students to work in climate change policy fields. It is intended to integrate and update the climate change studies that most students have already had with readings and discussion. It introduces students to a policy analysis framework and guides them through writing a policy memo to a government official on a climate change solution of their choice.