Convenor name: Harald Heubaum
Convenor email: hh15@soas.ac.uk
Module dates: Semester 2
Intended learning outcomes:
- Understand the main issues in the fields of (global) climate policy and governance, sustainability and environmental governance more broadly and how they are interconnected;
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of climate and sustainability governance architectures, international negotiation and regime formation processes and the actors and ideas shaping them;
- Ability to apply academic concepts and theories to case studies drawn from the Global North and South;
- Ability to critically analyse academic and policy documents in the fields of (global) climate and sustainability governance;
- Demonstrate the research skills necessary to interpret and assess the ways in which public and private actors respond to climate change, sustainability and broader environmental challenges;
- Ability to participate in contemporary debates on global climate and sustainability governance and policy.
Assessment 1: Name: Assignment 1 (AS1)
Assessment 1: Weighting: 25%
Assessment 1: Due date: 4 March 2026
Assessment 2: Name: Exam (EX1)
Assessment 2: Weighting: 75%
Page type: Module
Study year: 2025/26
Librarian name: Yurie Watanabe
Librarian email: yw25@soas.ac.uk
Page template: 2025/26 On campus
