LS5072: CLIMATE CHANGE LAW AND POLICY LLM (2014-2015)

Climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge of our time. There is widespread agreement that the international community and individual states must act now to mitigate and adapt to the causes and consequences of climate change. The UK and Scottish approaches to climate change encompass the 'world leading' Climate Change Act 2008 and Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 and different aspects of the Electricity Market reform 2012. Regulatory developments to tackle the challenge of climate change have significant implications for the development of law and policy across a range of sectors, including, importantly, the energy sector. The purpose of this course is to explore the law and policy framework for addressing climate change across international, European and national levels. This course examines the current challenges facing the negotiation of an ambitious international climate change regime by looking at the history of the existing climate architecture and by thoroughly analysing the key principles of climate change law. The course focuses on the energy sector by looking at carbon finance mechanisms for clean energy investments.

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Assessment: 60% examination, 10% assess group presentation and 30% individual 2500 word essay. As with other similar LLM courses the presentations will be video recorded and copies of powerpoint presentations will be made available for external assessment. The 3 hour examination will be based on the 5 seminars and students must answer 3 questions from a choice of 5.

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