Politics of Climate Change MA

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 their 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.This MA includes three core components: two climate-specific modules and a dissertation, leaving students to choose from a wide range of other climate change, public policy, development, international security, political theory, and international political economy modules.