Overview
This assignment asks you to dig more deeply into one of the ways to approach energy and environmental policy. You should choose one of these approaches and answer (in essay format) the question posed that week:
Market-driven regulation: Are carbon pricing and disclosure of climate-related financial risk the solution?
Centering incumbents: What is the role of fossil fuel companies in the energy transition?
The rise of the climate movement and supply-side policy: Is ‘Keep it in the Ground’ a political path forward?
Decolonization: What can we learn from Indigenous governance and leadership?
- Backlash to the energy transition: How to respond to petro-nationalism?
- As you answer this question, you should:
- Contextualize this approach within the broader policy-making process.
- Identify the interests that are for and against this approach, and why they support or oppose it.
- Identify and explain the central idea(s) this approach advances as important to understanding the policy process and the energy transition.
Identify the institutions best serve this combination of interests and ideas.
Provide real-world examples illustrating how these interests, ideas and institutions play out in policy and political debates.