The Political Economy of Climate Change

Schedule: 1-2 August, 2025 (09.30-15.30 Jakarta Time)

About

Climate change is arguably the most important global challenge in the 21st century. It will reshape weather patterns, storms, sea levels, and agricultural output worldwide, mostly for the worse. Mitigating climate change will require massive economic transformations, affecting energy, transportation, and industrial sectors. What are the politics of that transformation? What are the political forces obstructing it? The course will begin with an overview of the cooperation problems inherent in climate change. We will also explore mitigation policies and strategies used at local, national, and international levels, including carbon pricing mechanisms, regulation, finance and incentives and international cooperation. This course will involve working with different types of data, and how to use quantitative methods and computational techniques to test different ideas.

Instructor

Hayley Pring

Affiliation: University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Hayley Pring is a post-doctoral research fellow at Oxford University in the Department of Politics and International Relations working on the Climate Vulnerability Project. She is affiliated with Nuffield College and is an Skoll ECR Fellow at the Said Business School at Oxford. She holds a PhD (Oxford), MPhil (Oxford), and BA Hons (ANU).