The course enable the students approaching for the first time the protection of oceans and cryosphere in international law and EU Law in the Polar Systems (Arctic and Antarctic) to understand deeply the legal and governance responses of climate change’s impacts on oceans and cryosphere. At the same time, the course offers the students the possibility to specialize in several areas or sectors. The course is divided in two parts: thegeneral part I, and thespecific and sectorial part II. Thegeneral part I treats the subjects, sources, general principles, for the protection of the oceans and coasts and the role of key institutions (official and non-official actors) in their capacity to elaborate law and policies to adapt and to mitigate to climate change’s impacts on oceans and cryosphere. Institutes that will be considered will be for example, the Arctic Council, the Inuit Circumpolar Council, or the Antarctic Treaty System, the Scientific Committee on the Antarctic Research, the International Association of Tour Operator and the European Union. This part will include the role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the interception of science, law and policy and the way this institute contributes to assess the science dealing with the capacity to adapt and mitigate. The specific and sectorial part II, will focus on the legal, institutional and policy responses to the impacts and risks of climate change from International Cooperation at sectorial level and will consider sectors and activities such as marine transportation and shipping, commercial fisheries, non-renewable and extractive industries, infrastructures, tourism, and impact of maritime future claims related to new interests from both from polar and non-polar states (i.e. Asian countries).
General part l
Specific and sectorial part ll
Name of exam | Governance and Law of Climate Change, Oceans & Cryosphere in the Polar Systems |
Type of exam | Oral exam
20 minutes exam |
ECTS | 10 |
Permitted aids | Without aids |
Assessment | 7-point grading scale |
Type of grading | External examination |
Criteria of assessment | The criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures |
Danish title | Klimaændringer og energilovgivning |
Module code | KA-JU-20-S51 |
Module type | Course |
Duration | 1 semester |
Semester | Spring and Autumn
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ECTS | 10 |
Language of instruction | English |
Empty-place Scheme | Yes |
Location of the lecture | Campus Aalborg |
Responsible for the module |
Study Board | Study Board of Law |
Department | Department of Law |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities |
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