https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2024-2025/R_MPoCCMultidisciplinary perspectives on climate change has the following intended learning outcomes: At the end of this course, the student:has basic knowledge of the natural science behind the causes and consequences of climate change, and understands climate models and the physical implications of various temperature targets.understands the main ethical theories and ethical concepts related to sustainable behaviour and the mitigation of global warming.understands the core actors and regimes of global climate change governance, in particular the UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, as well as the governance and functioning of the IPCC.understands the explanations that environmental behavioural psychology can provide for (the lack of) sustainable action, and has knowledge of the strategies that this discipline can offer for changing people’s behaviour.understands the consequences that global warming and mitigative measures may have for the economy, and has knowledge of the economic solutions that may help prevent dangerous climate change, in particular the carbon tax.understands the way in which the disciplines studied in this course – being: climate science, climate ethics, climate governance, environmental behavioural psychology, and economics – interconnect and influence each other.understands the significance of the disciplines studied in this course for solving concrete legal problems in the domain of International Business Law.has the basic knowledge and self-critical attitude to independently acquire new knowledge in the field of the disciplines studied in this course.Climate change is a wicked problem which transcends various boundaries. As the name suggests, global warming goes beyond national boundaries, both in terms of causes and consequences. It also transcends temporal boundaries, because various generations are responsible for and impacted by climate change. Finally, global warming even challenges political and scientific paradigms that were believed to be robust enough to cope with the environmental problems the world is facing. Climate change thus also transcends conceptual boundaries. However wicked this problem may be, still, as climate lawyers, we will be involved in regulating and adjudicating climate change related matters. And as the old saying has it: ‘one can only apply law to facts properly, with a proper understanding of the facts’. Therefore, it is paramount that we lawyers get a grip on this complex, multifaceted problem. To do this, we, too, have to transcend the boundaries of our legal discipline to get a multidisciplinary understanding of global warming as a phenomenon.Tutorials and guest lecturesWritten exam with essay questionsTo be distributed on Canvas.This course is designed for students from the LLM programme International Business Law: Climate Change and Corporations. By way of exception, the course is also available for motivated students from other universities/faculties and contractors (students who pay for one course), under the condition that the student is currently enrolled in a Master's programme focused on climate change and/or sustainability related issues. Exceptions require the course coordinator's permission.