MA Politics of Climate Change

University of Warwick

The PaIS Masters in the Politics of Climate Change is unique in its ability to place climate change policy within embedded political, economic, and social contexts. It equips students to be able to ask, and find answers to, some of the big, complex questions that sit behind our ability to meet net zero ambitions and targets. Understanding the complexities of climate politics can inform more lasting and just policy design. Key thematic areas explored include: just transitions; fossil fuel phase out and incumbency; decolonial perspectives; green growth & de-growth; loss & damage; geopolitics of sustainable transitions; power & democracy; and climate denial and obstruction. Alongside regular modules, students will be offered unique learning and networking opportunities: including negotiation and advocacy training (Café Diplomatico); and engagement with the PaIS Environmental Cluster and the university-wide Sustainability Spotlight group – both of which organise regular research and networking events.