Transnational Social Movements and Global Climate Law and Policy

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The course will also examine how social movement and civil society generated ideas, such as just transition, peasant agroecology, food sovereignty, and Green New Deal, have translated into global climate law and policy. This includes examining their interventions in global processes, such as the United Nations Climate Change Conferences (COP) and Committee on World Food Security (CFS). It will introduce debates around the socio-environmental impact of mainstream climate solutions, including carbon sequestering, REDD+, carbon credits, climate smart agriculture, critical minerals mining, and adopting renewable technologies. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, science and technology studies, anthropology, geography, Indigenous Studies, and political economy, students will develop an understanding of how transnational social movements are imagining alternative climate futures through their participation in global climate politics.