Program overview
Climate change will be a foremost theme that will influence financial activities, policy, and legal frameworks for years to come. In a noticeably short time span, climate change has become a global challenge calling for collective action. Climate change law is emerging as a new legal discipline. Using various case studies, this course will explore how climate change law relates to other areas of law and how climate change has elicited rulemaking process at the international, regional, national, and local levels. The class will be invited to study the negotiation process, implementation, and current status of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The class will then proceed to evaluate the various legal tools that are available at national and international level to address climate change, including cap-and-trade, carbon taxation, litigation, and voluntary actions.
Location
In-person
Language
English
Duration
3 Days
Program Start
July 16, 2024
Program End
July 18, 2024
Learning Outcomes
Identify the main principles of climate change law and policy to understand one of the main challenges humanity faces today.
Recognize how the main principles of law and policy of climate change apply transnationally.
Critically analyze legal problems related to common concerns such as climate change and public goods such as the mitigation of climate change.
Synthesize complex topics of climate change from a scientific, economic, legal, political, institutional, regulatory, and historical point of view.
Describe, analyze, and criticize the main challenges of climate change.
Work in teams on projects involving critical thinking on legal and policy issues.
Who Should Attend?
Mid- and senior-level professionals
The course is designed so that professionals with functions relating to international relations, climate negotiations, international trade, international economics, and/or legal services can evaluate the various legal tools that are available at national and international level to address climate change, including cap-and-trade, carbon taxation, litigation, and voluntary actions.
Proficiency of written and spoken English
The program will be delivered in English. Applicants should be proficient in written and spoken English.
Faculty

Rafael Leal Arcas
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