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Summer Quarter, 2011

Energy Policy

Time: Monday the 4th period (15:00-16:40)

Credit: 2

Lecturer: Ken Koyama, Shunsuke Managi

Content:
The aim of this lecture is to explain students the current status, issues of energy policies, and world energy situation to deal with energy security and global warming

Materials:
"IEA World Energy Outlook 2010"
"A White Paper on Energy, 2010" Ministry of Economy, Trading, and Industry,
"The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, Power" Daniel Yergin

Reading The Kyoto Protocol

Time: Tuesday, the third period (13:10-14:50)

Credit: 2

Lecturer: Midori Tani

Language: English

Content:
This course aims at stimulating and realizing the potentials of the students for future international communications, using the real negotiation which the lecturer participated.

In order to achieve this goal, we will follow the negotiation process of the Framework Convention on Climate Change after COP3, when the Kyoto Protocol was agreed, till COP7, when the agreements about the details of the Kyoto Protocol were reached. The text of the Kyoto Protocol left a number of issues to be discussed later, and intensive negotiations were necessary during this period to have the Protocol ratified.

After some introductory lectures on the global warming and the Framework Convention on Climate Change as a background, we will read and discuss the text of the Kyoto Protocol, Article by Article, with special emphasis on Joint Implementation, Clean Development Mechanism, Emissions Trading and Compliance. We will first look for issues which need clarification in the text of the Protocol, and then look into the Marrakesh Accords which were reached at COP7. After lectures on related issues in environmental policies and energy policies, each student will make a speech as a Minister or a negotiator at COP6.

Materials:
The Kyoto Protocol、United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change、The Marrakesh Accords、Annual Report on the Environment、Annual Energy Report、Japan’s Environmental Policy(a paper by the lecturer)、Publications by the International Energy Agency

Winter Quarter, 2011

Selected Topics in Energy Policy

Time:Tuesday, the second period (10:20-12:00)

Credit: 2

Lecturer: Kazumasa Kusaka

Language: English

Content:
The course focusing on energy policy is designed to introduce students to the environment where policy makers with insufficient information available have to make decisions, taking into account multi-facet considerations of economic policy, security, environment policy, politics and foreign policy. The course also tries to improve students' literacy in the interaction between theoretical frameworks and their policy applications.

Materials:
BP Energy Outlook 2030、Energy Resources Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 7th Edition Etc.

Environmental Policy

Time:Tuesday the 4th period (15:00-16:40)

Credit: 2

Lecturer: Shunsuke Managi, Ken Koyama

Content:
This course aims at applying the theories or logical thinking, based on environmental economic, energy economics to environmental policy.
In the course, students are required to set the theme and give presentations.

Materials:
"Kankyokeiei no Keizaibunseki" Shunsuke Managi, Chuokeizai-Sha, Inc. "Kankyokeizaigaku wo Tsukamu" Koichi Kuriyama, Shunsuke Managi, Yuhikaku Publishing Co., Ltd