This course provides an overview on global environmental governance and insights in the social, political, and economic processes that govern climate change. It consists of five topics: (1) overview on global environmental politics: emergence and development of global environmental politics, main actors in global environmental politics, effectiveness of environmental regimes; (2) development of climate governance from the international to the local level, role of science, role of state and non-state actors, climate policy of the major players (EU, USA, China); (3) ideas and concepts relevant for the analysis of global environmental and climate governance, such as polycentric and multi-level governance; (new) environmental policy instruments (such as emissions trading, labeling and certification); ecosystem-based governance; governance of risk, uncertainty and disaster; burden sharing and environmental/climate justice; (4) different policy areas of climate governance (such as energy policy/energy transitions, transport policy, forest policy) and their implementation in countries in the North and South; (5) political and economic dynamics emerging from the Paris Agreement, including the (changing) positions of major players Weitere Informationen unter: https://puls.uni-potsdam.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=65491&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung close