ENVECON 170
Energy and Climate Policy in China
The course will present scholarly review of historical and on-going energy and climate policy topics in China, with a broad goal of gaining understanding the relationship between energy, economic development, and climate change in the largest emerging economy, China.
Topics
- One goal of the course is to give students the tools to read, write about, speak about, and in general critically evaluate empirical research on energy and climate policy in China and in developing economics in general. The lectures and interactions with guest speakers would give student the perspective on the effectiveness of various energy and climate policies in the developing world context, an understanding of the key factors in successful climate policies, so they could apply these lessons learned to develop appropriate energy and climate policies in other developing economies.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027