Choose one of the policy approaches from weeks 6 – 10 and address the following questions with respect to their role in political and policy debates on the energy transition.
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?
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.
You should demonstrate an understanding of the relevant required readings (for that week, but also with respect to the broader policy process and energy transition). You should also demonstrate that you can research and apply these concepts to real-world policy debates.
This assignment should be no more than 2000 words and is due by midnight on November 17.
Reading List:
Week 6:
Market-driven regulation: Are
carbon pricing and disclosure
of climate-related financial risk
the solution?
Working Group on Carbon Pricing Mechanisms (2016).
Working Group on Carbon Pricing Mechanisms: Final Report, pp. 7 – 36.
Kathryn Harrison (July 8, 2019). “The fleeting Canadian harmony over carbon pricing”. Policy Options.
Mark Carney (29 September 2015). “Breaking the Tragedy of the Horizon – climate change and financial stability.
Week 7:
Centering incumbents: What is the role of fossil fuel companies in the energy transition?
Carter, Chapter 2.
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (2021). Vote Energy: An Energy Platform for Canada 2021.
Suncor (2021). Climate Report 2021: An energy company for the future, pp 5 – 26.
Week 8:
The rise of the climate movement and supply-side policy: Is ‘Keep it in theGround’ a political path forward?
Olive, Chapter 4, pp. 83-92.
Bill McKibben (August 3, 2012). ‘
“Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math”. Rolling Stone Magazine.
Michael Lazarus and Harro van Asselt (2 August 8, 2018). “Fossil fuel supply and climate policy: exploring the road less taken. Climatic Change. Vol. 150, pp. 1-13.
Naomi Klein (2019). “Introduction: We are the Wildfire.” On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal.
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