This course is part of an internationally coordinated CEMs programme onhuman induced climate change policy and the negotiation skills training. The course will inform students of the basicscience, impacts, uncertainties and economic issues surrounding human inducedclimate change. These issues will becovered before moving on to the role of different actors in climate policy. The focus is on three groups of actorsnamely: business, government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Invited speakers from each grouping willpresent their positions on climate change. The aim for student is to understand their concerns and the issues theyare facing in light of the challenges posed by climate change and the controlof the greenhouse gases that create the problem.

A key aspect of the course is to have students take on the role ofdifferent actors and participate in a 2 day role play exercise. In line with the innovative three-sectorapproach of this course, each student will either represent a governmentdelegate, a NGO or a lobbyist from industry. This approach aims to provideexperience not only in intergovernmental debate of climate change issues, butalso in the way different actors influence these discussions. Students will prepare a background briefingand position paper on an allocated actor e.g. a country, an environmentalNGO. They will represent this actor inthe international negotiation exercise. Each student has an individual role, and isalso part of a small team or delegation. Most delegations consist of multiplerepresentatives of one country or group of countries. This role play exercisewill bring together students from partner institutions across Europe for arecreation of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on ClimateChange) process.

• Institutional mechanisms:understanding of the negotiation process under the United Nations FrameworkConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

• Interests of actors and their discourses: recognisngthe diverging interests of different key actors involved in national andinternational climate policy negotiations. These actors are broadly classified as government bodies and theirvarious delegated authorities, corporations, business and industry, and non-governmentalorganizations (NGOs) both civil/humanitarian and environmental (ENGOs).

• Connections: learn howcorporate strategies and public policies are interlinked, both in terms of challengesand resolutions.

• Business strategy: start torecognise the challenges facing business and begin to evaluate the role of thebusiness community in developing strategies that avoid the negativeconsequences of climate change and in an environmentally changing world.
• International cooperation: throughinteraction with students from other countries, all participants will practicenegotiating and the challenges of consensus seeking solutions, but will also experiencefirsthand the international dimension of the climate change challenge
• Negotiation skills: Allstudents should learn the basic principles of the mutual gains approach tonegotiation, gain a better understanding of bilateral and multilateral negotiationdynamics, and be able to see the climate negotiations through this lens.

• • Lectures
• • Guest Lectures ofspeakers from government and industries
• • Team Exercises
• • Role Play

1) Active participation (20%)

2) Individual Exam (20%)

3) Group background paper & presentation (20%)

4) Group position paper (20%)

5) Individual reflection paper (20%)