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Mitigating Climate Change: The Politics of Net Zero and Carbon Removal
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5254-22-03-31 
Enrollment deadline: 26/04/2022
Date and time19.09.2022, at: 09:00 - 23.09.2022, at: 16:00
Regular seats20
Course fee10,000.00 €
LecturersJens Friis Lund
ECTS credits7.50
Contact personJens Friis Lund    E-mail address: jens@ifro.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserCharlotte Bukdahl Jacobsen    E-mail address: cja@ifro.ku.dk
Aim and content
As the climate crisis intensifies, the scientific and political conversation on climate change mitigation is taking novel forms, giving rise to a range of possible new climate futures. An increasingly important aspect of this is the ambition, articulated by both governments and corporate actors, to achieve ‘Net Zero’ emissions. Implied in this goal is the need for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to compensate for continued greenhouse gas emission in the near-term, a need that comes with its own set of feasibility challenges, political risks and socio- environmental trade-offs.

The course will give students a critical overview of the current net zero conversation against the background of the history of climate politics, and goes into some of the main tendencies, tensions and opportunities that characterize net zero pathways. It mainly draws on conceptual tools in the fields of political economy, political ecology and science and technology studies.

Learning outcome
Upon completing the course, participants should:

1. Be familiar with the scientific and political debates on net zero emission targets and pathways, from different epistemological perspectives;
2. Be able to identify, differentiate and critically examine uncertainties, assumptions and tensions in net zero pathways and carbon removal promises;
3. Have acquired theoretical and methodological tools to critically analyze questions of justice, equity and political economy in contemporary climate politics;
4. Have gained experience in critically reading and discussing research and scholarly work of other researchers

Target Group
PhD students working on climate mitigation, offsetting, corporate sustainabili

Workload
Course workload category Hours
Preparation / Self-Study 150
Course hours 40
Evaluation / reporting 40

Total 230

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