Climate Change

About the lecture

In this module, we apply what we have learned so far about global governance to the problem of climate change, focusing in particular on: (i) the relevance of the UN to this discussion and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); (ii) the Paris Agreement; (iii) the problem of enforcement and cooperation for climate change policies; (iv) the two key theories of Realism and Liberalism; (v) examples of such standards being successfully enforced, as with the Hague District Court enforcing Paris Agreement standards on Shell in May 2021.

About the lecturer

Natasha Lindstaedt is a Professor of Government at the University of Essex. She has taught MA and undergraduate courses at the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit (VU), California State University (Long Beach), and Ventura College. Her research interests include international development, authoritarian regimes, and 'Third World' politics, and in 2017 she released the work 'Global Politics and Violent Non-State Actors', which explores the emergence of violent non-state actors through a series of contemporary case studies and an interdisciplinary approach.