The primary objective of the course is to present a summary of the European Union's main policy responses to the issue of climate change. The approach underlying the teaching project is both factual and analytical. It is based firstly on a rigorous and substantiated presentation of existing legislation and public policies. It then aims to make a critical assessment of them, i.e. to analyse their effects but also to decode the political dynamics that explain the forms and limits of public policies relating to the climate.
Sectoral and territorial case studies are designed to make students familiar with the technical, economic and social complexity of deep decarbonisation policies that are being developed or implemented. The idea here is to understand the effects of climate policies as closely as possible to the realities on the ground, so as to bring the course content closer to the potential professional fields of the students in the audience.
- Teacher: Denis Benjamin